Note: This entry is being posted in late 2024, well after the event concluded.
Enjoy some highlights of BMW’s Ultimate Driving Experience in 2022. This would mark my second time at BMW’s annual driving event which showcases some of their latest models. This year we’d be getting spirited wheel time in the all-new BMW i4 M50: BMW’s latest all-electric sedan sporting 536 horsepower and a 0-60 in just 3.7sec.
I’ve driven many electric vehicles, including a Tesla P85D. And while the Tesla certainly had a more explosive launch with its nearly ~700HP motors, this and its “full-self-drive” are mostly just party tricks packaged in a poorly assembled, low material quality body that simply feels cheap and unintuitive. For two cars supposedly in the same class, there is simply no comparison - BMW has Tesla beat at its own game hands down. Aside from the i40 possessing the quality in materials and build that one expects from the German maker, but it also comes with BMW’s famed handling; driving the i40, one wouldn’t know it isn’t a beefy V8 aside from the fake engine noise piped in through the sound system - while convincing, knowing the sound is a lie is the only thing that makes the driving experience less genuine.
