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Car & Driver: BMW i4 eDrive40 review & performance / range stats
Featured on BIMMERPOST.com https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews...y-the-numbers/ Constant 75mph range: 280 miles, and in mixed driving surpassed EPA's 99MPGe at 108MPGe 0-60: 4.8 1/4 mile: 13.4@106mph 30-50mph passing: 2.0 50-70mph passing: 2.9 300ft skidpad: .87g Highs: Longer range than the M50, well-controlled ride, attractive and intuitive curved display screen Lows: Not crazy fast like the M50, rear-only regen can make the friction brakes feel grabby Some quotes: "The single-motor i4 is sufficiently quick." "Both suspension setups feel engaging and well controlled" "...as it ingested all manner of road imperfections with aplomb and pasted a huge grin on our face when we pushed it hard in the mountains." "We also found its steering to be accurate and predictable..."
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It’s built off the 4 series gran coupe right? The M3 is built off the standard 4 series. The gran coupe is 6 inches longer with more room for the rear doors. I for one would not have wanted to pay a premium for bmw designing m3 specific rear doors as someone that actually ordered one
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I drove at the Ultimate driving experience the m50 expecting heavy and hard to control and found the opposite. It was surprisingly nimble and decisive in cornering.
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It doesn't feel, handle or behave like a 2 ton car at speeds where you keep your license. Ifmyounstart acting like a hooligan then youight feel it. I would say at anything under 9/10 you are never going to think it's a heavy car.
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Anyhow, I think this is a solid enough EV effort by BMW. It's much heavier than the Model 3, but I'd venture to bet that nobody buying a Model 3 knows or cares about weight. I hope BMW is able to poach some customers back.
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It's actually good to see how great the i4 is despite the huge skepticism and doubt people had - BMW is late, no dedicated platform, dead on arrival. I don't think the i4 could have been any better as the first of its kind for BMW. You really feel like they maximized and did the best they can with this platform and how their business is positioned between ICE transitioning to EV.
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so the EDrive XDrive 40 will be here in November? before all the pending orders for the Edrive40's in backlog? To get it here in November orders would have to be placed and schedule for production , I don't know.... is speculation or you have inside information that the EdriveXdrive40 will be in US in November?
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