She's A 10, But Here's Why Everyone Still HATES The BMW i8 Hybrid Supercar

hi guys hi guys welcome back to Rolling stonks today I'm here with this BMW I8 the most hated Supercar ever [Music] a lot of people hate this car and today I'm going to show you guys why people might hate it and whether or not it's worth all the hate a lot of people don't like the look of this car which I think they're kind of crazy because I think it's a really cool looking car it's sleek and its curves are really cool and really unique and I think the designers did a great job with it but some people think that it looks like it's a car giving birth to a Porsche or something weird like that another reason people hate this car is because it's a hybrid yup just like a Toyota Prius or something this car actually has a three-cylinder engine in it which doesn't sound like a lot but it also has an electric drive system and together they work in Tandem and this car is actually pretty fast people say this car is slow it's not slow not bad whoops not bad at all now there are some things I don't like about this car and mainly it has to do with how smart this car thinks it is and how dumb it actually is on the front here there's some sensors and one of them is dirty here because the car constantly thinks that I'm gonna hit something and it beeps at me when I'm parking it it's really annoying and I can see why someone would not like that this here is actually a front-facing camera and it's pretty handy although you can see this one's kind of smudged up so it's kind of hard to see this one because when you turn the camera on there's just a big smudge in the middle of it so great when it works not so great when it doesn't work I really think this is a beautiful car this car actually has two energy ports you want to call them that this one is actually the charge port I wonder if I can get it open yeah there we go and that is where you charge the car on the other side back here is a normal gas tank and that's where you fill it with gasoline I really like the fact that this car is a hybrid because not only does it get great mileage you can charge it up at night when you're at home and you can fill it with gas whenever you need to one of the coolest things about this car is the doors it does have billionaire doors yeah these are actually called butterfly doors they look cool but in practicality they're not so great thank you all right let's see you get this car for all you ladies out there with husbands who have BMW i8s this is how you get into a super car with a dress in a car that's like there you go butt first leg second no problem look at this she's even boom there you have it folks when you get in the door is kind of like up right here and you have to like kind of get it in like this and like swing your legs over this really high thing and when you get out this door is right above you so you get up and you're like oh blue ink and you hit the door so it's a little awkward to get into and out of they could have done normal doors it might have been more practical but it certainly would not have looked as cool the interior of this car is really nice I really like what they did here with the blue LED light strips we'll show you guys that in a separate clip but the interior is very comfortable it's a very nice place to be and I really enjoy it [Music] thank you [Music] BMW quality though which means that this stuff doesn't hold up super well to wear you can see on here we were driving down and this plastic piece like this side just fell right off while we were driving it typical BMW stuff this car does have back seats this is a four-seater car which is surprising considering it's a Supercar as you can see there's not a ton of room there's a room for a pair of shoes there and that's pretty much about it I wouldn't try and put adult passengers back there and even kids are going to have a tough time sitting back there maybe you could get some small kids back there very very small back seats but it is cool that they have back seats foreign yes very nice place to be so to start the car the key has to be near and you just put the start button welcome to the inside of the BMW i8 this car has several modes now if you shift this stick here to that mode there the dash instruments turn red and they switch to the sport mode and the car has a lot more get up and go when you switch it to this mode mode not bad for a hybrid I tell you what my Prius is not going to do that it also changes the sound in the speakers in the back of the car so that the car sounds thrown here thusk is an audio system that ports sound and it gives the car this kind of sound of a Supercar but that's actually a fake sound the car does not actually sound like that not speakers when I switched the car back into Comfort mode here it will switch into a bloom there we go and the car changes this here is the battery indicator the battery actually charges when you put the car and it doesn't really charge while you're in Comfort mode kind of a strange setting for this car the car's been barking at me this whole trip that the washer fluid is low and my windshield was really dirty and I couldn't clean it luckily it rained but I'm gonna have to refill the washer fluid so this is the passenger side windshield here there's a little flap there we just pop that off like that and I'm going to pour some water in there no more washer fluid low warnings good things I do hate about this car beeper the mirrors the noises that this car makes when it's trying to warn you are really irritating it has this gong and it's got beaks and tones and you could be in park and it will beep at utility to put your seat belt on of course now the seat belt's off and it's not giving me the beep so it's kind of intermittent too I'm not I don't understand why the car chooses to beep at you at certain times and not at other times but sometimes it'll just start randomly beeping at you there were some other things that I really hated about this car and I've actually figured out that there's a way around them for example the seats when I was trying to put my suitcase in the back I thought you had to use the electrical buttons to move the seats back and forth and it took a long time to do that but I figured out that on the back of the headrest there's actually a flap that you pull see them also this seat belt will come off of this thing here and now there's all sorts of room for activities here another thing that was really irritating me was the side mirror when I would put the car into reverse the side mirror would Point down and I couldn't see what was happening on the passenger side of the car because the mirror was pointed at the ground now there is a switch over here on the driver's side door and if you push this switch it will change the way the mirror works when you're fix that honestly I don't hate this car I actually really like this car it's an awesome car for doing what it was designed to do which is being a grand tour I rented this car here out of Miami Florida to do a South Florida road trip we started in Miami drove to Naples drove up to Tampa drove across the state over to St Augustine and now we're driving South back down to Miami where we'll drop the car off to its original the audio system in here in here we do have the base all the way up and there doesn't seem to be any subwoofer in here now I'm not sure if they come stock like that maybe the subwoofer has been disconnected or blown from a previous renter I don't know could use a lot more Bass the drivability of this car is really good the car handles really well I don't actually know what kind of suspension this car has but it works very well it's very comfortable but it also has that nimbleness to it that you want in a car like this the ride is very smooth and I'm really enjoying being in this car even for two to three hours at a time I enjoyed the car so much on my vacation that when I got home I started looking into buying one that's when I found out why everyone hates this car what changed my mind was watching multiple rants on YouTube posted by irate BMW I8 owners who claim things like spending ten thousand dollars to fix the air conditioning system and even more to fix batteries and other expensive components specific to this car that BMW doesn't seem to even remember how to fix ultimately I decided to opt out of this amazing car even though it has billionaire doors if it were a stonk I would give it a hold rating if you are considering purchasing one of these you may want to consider getting one with a warranty or at least be prepared to drop five digits worth of energy into keeping it fully functional if BMW had followed up this great car with a great service experience for I8 owners I would likely still be considering buying one for commuting and Grand Touring in closing I think the BMW i8 is a great car for the money as long as it doesn't break [Music] [Music] [Music] it in here pop in and there you have it folks a super car that a lot of people hate that I think just wants to be loved I hope you guys enjoyed this video If you guys like this kind of content please subscribe to my channel and there will be more videos on cars like this in the future peace out rock on [Music]

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Length: 11min 35sec (695 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 01 2022