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Originally Posted by techwhiz1
WTF are you talking about? Have you actually driven one or are you just spouting BS?
As someone that has owned multiple M cars, including an iconic E30 as a daily driver for a decade, you are so far off the mark it isn't even funny.
So are you claiming that I can only go 4 miles before the car starts losing power if driven hard? I can assure you that isn't the case after doing a high speed dance at 130mph with an F90 M5 Competition and a Bentley Continental.
Is the i4 a track car? Absolutely not, but you claiming I'm going to need to charge after driving it hard after 16 miles is the funniest load of crap I have heard in days. Or claiming that after 4 miles it's down on power.
Just say you don't like EVs and move on. Stop spouting BS
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Car and Driver Lighting Lap
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The i4 can more or less match an M3 in our regular acceleration and braking metrics, but a lap of VIR taxes the entire vehicle for three minutes, and the i4 showed signs of wilting. First, it won't make full power for a whole lap. An extremely cool out-lap helps, but while the i4 easily hummed along at its low, 128-mph top speed to start, at the finish line it only reached 116 mph, barely faster than the Carnival minivan. Furthermore, it restricted power until the steering wheel was pointed sufficiently straight, even with the stability control in its most lenient mode, hampering the car's ability to accelerate out of corners and then punching us back in the seat as we unwound the wheel. Each 4.1-mile hot lap consumed about 20 percent of the i4's state of charge and, as is typical for EVs, power drops off as the battery depletes, so it wasn't productive to do more than one fast lap before hooking it up for a couple-hour recharge.
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I don't hate EVs but they are basically adolescent technology at this point. In 2 or so generations they will be a hell of a lot more compelling.
Can't even complete a full lap without losing power and top speed, trails the M340 on the same track/test by 1.5 seconds. 4.1 seconds slower than the M240 xDrive
Looking forward to seeing you do your usual moving goalposts and claiming you said something else though! truly the smartest person on the internet! I bet that they gave you a special i4 m50 that doesnt lose power when driven hard since they knew you deserved it and needed to race Bentley's.