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Originally Posted by adc
I doubt the rear seats can be easily removed, they are part of the carbon tub. The whole tub would need a full redesign, and that would drive the costs up and the likelihood of it happening down.
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My thought is that the "life module" will be reworked entirely anyway because the car will borrow nothing aesthetically from the i8. This can allow the "drive module" to accommodate a different combustion engine.
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I still think the S63 makes the most sense, plus with a mild hybrid it would easily surpass 700BHP, maybe even 800. As much as I like the S55/8, I don’t think it’s the right engine here.
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I feel that a V8 hybrid would make the business case more difficult because they still want this to be a "do more with less" product that is to some degree in keeping with the BMW i ethos and leverages the money they've spent on building the brand as such.
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BMW has exactly one chance left for a last hurrah supercar with an ICE core -the swan song of its combustion engine expertise. By 2030 it will all be obsolete, crushed into oblivion by a multitude of thousand+ BHP electric hypercars.
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Possible quibbling over the precise timeline aside, on this I agree with you.