First Drive: 2019 BMW i8 Roadster - A hybrid that’s better than a pure EV or a pure dinosaur-juicer?

Tideland Prius · Apr 30, 2018

Back in the wild and wacky 19th century, some scientists held a notion called recapitulation theory, which claimed embryonic development followed the branches of an organism’s ancient evolutionary tree, from, say, fish to lizard to dog to human. Its most famous and lasting impact is a curious, confusing phrase, coined by German naturalist Ernst Haeckel: “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.” That theory has been discredited for more than 100 years, largely because it’s total hogwash. But if it hadn’t been epistemically eviscerated, the BMW i8 would gladly do the job, throwing biogenetic law out the window, clean-sheeting a sport-hybrid DNA that’s in its own image and none other.

That image is pretty stunning, too, thanks to the concept-like futuristic design. If there’s a bad angle to the i8, there’s only one: viewed from directly behind, at the driver’s eye level of another trailing i8 (or similarly low-slung sports car), the buttresses that are so beautiful when standing curbside sag into an M-shaped mess. It looks a bit like a tree fell on it. But that’s a problem for the gal behind you. Fortunately, the i8 Roadster wears its curves just as well as the coupe, simply swapping the hard top for a cloth-topped mechanism that folds neatly away.
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