New Hybrid From BMW
Hybrid sports car company BMW, which will be created based on the prototype Vision EfficientDynamics, will be called i8, the website of BMW Blog, citing its own sources. Previously, also became known that the German manufacturer has already registered as trademarks the names with the letter “i” and numbers from 1 to 9, and also published the logo of future models with names.
According to some reports, the number 8 in the name of the hybrid supercar was chosen to remind us of sports M8 car, which is scheduled for release as a possible competitor to Ferrari in the late 90 the last century, and who never got into production. Was built only one prototype BMW M8 with a 550-horsepower engine. It was first presented at a special event for journalists held in July this year in the BMW Museum in Munich.
According to other sources, BMW has not decided on the name of sport car and plans to make a final decision only after collecting opinions of focus groups.
Prototype Vision EfficientDynamics first presented last fall at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
Conceptual sports car was equipped with a hybrid, combining a 163-strong diesel engine of 1.5 liters, two electric motors, lithium-polymer batteries and a box transmission with two clutches. According to the company BMW, a car can accelerate to “hundreds” of 4,8 seconds and reach a top speed of 250 kilometers per hour.
It is expected that the hybrid sports car BMW will be unveiled at the Olympic Games 2012 London, which sponsors the German automaker. In stock car will appear in 2013 at a price about 240 thousand U.S. dollars.
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