This Is the BMW i8 Successor That Could've Been

BMW chief designer Domagoj Dukec spilled a secret via Instagram on Friday, and it’s a kick in the teeth. Allow me to explain: Rewind to January 2020, when the world was about to flip on its axis. We reported that i8 production would end in April of that year and that there was evidently no immediate successor.

However, you may recall, rumors were swirling that the German brand was working on a car based on the Vision M Concept revealed in 2019. The plug-in hybrid supercar was sleek and futuristic, a departure from what existed and what was yet to come. Sadly, the pandemic killed this project, Dukec says, and it never materialized.