The quirky all-electric hatch isn't very fast or oversteer-y, but it still looks like fun.
Driving a slow car fast is an unbeatable feeling. Especially if where you’re driving that car is the Nürburgring. Stighiz on YouTube thought it might be a good idea to take a BMW i3 on the Green Hell and drive it as quickly as possible. The results are surprisingly interesting.
The car in question, an i3s, makes just 184 hp from its rear-mounted electric motor. Designed for tight city blocks and commuting, the race track is the last place you’d expect to see one of these cars. This one looks to be totally stock, down to the ultra-thin, low-drag tires.
Perhaps that’s why it’s so fun to watch the driver in this video slam into corners and force the tires to cry for help through every turn. In the description, Stighiz admits the i3 will not oversteer no matter what you do, and traction control can’t be fully turned off. Still, it looks like a blast pushing the car to its (very low) limits… for three laps, anyway. Because according to the video, that’s how many loops of the ‘Ring the i3 can do before it runs out of juice.
via BMW Blog
Brian Silvestro Road & Track staff writer with a taste for high-mileage, rusted-out projects and amateur endurance racing.
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