One of those was the BMW i8, which debuted in the 2014 model year and was discontinued after 2020. This was the sole sports car offered on the line, and it received a healthy amount of praise over ...

the Audi R8 of the 2000s—and the BMW i8 of the 2010s. For all its sporting pedigree, BMW has a funny history with actual purpose-built sports cars. Since the BMW Z1 arrived in 1989 it’s ...