Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome to another live drive special. Good evening. I've just, it's only a two-seater, so we tried to stuff hallelujah back and it could have been in the back.
I think he would have been in the back. I think he would have been popping out. We'd have to probably take a little bit of time. So, he's at home.
We're inside a BMW i8 Roadster. Yeah. Wow. Pretty interesting car.
So, there's a lot of blue lights in here. It's a bit tight. Feel very romantic in here. So, we had, we started with the front-tier on our live drives.
The front-tier on our live drives. And then we did the X5 M competition. We did the Tesla. Now we're in something in the middle.
We're already moving. We're in electric. So, that's a BMW's hybrid sort of super car they think they call it. It's the rival, it's probably the case.
It's been out for a couple of years now. This is the update. This is the roadstuffs. This is a two-seater.
2015, I believe they brought the car out. Interesting car. It's got to turn around. We're already moving.
The engine hasn't come on yet. So, this is like a hybrid. So, it's like a Toyota Prius. It feels like a train.
So, yeah. So, we're starting off like we do with the Tesla. So, we're moving. I think if you want to compare this to a car when it comes to engine, I think.
Well, it's done well with this car. I've had this car for a few days now. What they've done well with this car is it actually negates the need to actually plug in and charge it. I thought, oh, shoot.
I'm going to need to charge it. But I don't want to start over here. And thought I needed to charge it. But, I mean, you've got a charging point in the back.
You've got to spot for petrol. It's got a three-cylinder motor in the back of it. But I believe the three-cylinder motor gives you a little bit of power, a little bit of juice. But I mostly believe it's for actually charging the battery.
So, I picked up the car two days ago with nine kilometers on the electric battery. And now I'm sitting at 28 kilometers. So, the rear generator, they're ready to charge it. I haven't charged it.
It's the driving. It's actually charging the battery. So, they say that very, very exact numbers. But they say very little amount of fuel will keep this car moving all the time.
So, we're doing about 30Ks now. We just have a back street seat of the neighbor where Rosalie's. And the petrol engine hasn't come on yet. No, but if you feel like you want to kick it in the gear, you can pop the motor.
Okay, so now you've flipped into the left and turned the motor on. And the dash just went all orange. And now we're in. It's got some power.
I mean, I think it's got some power. It sounds good. It handles like it's a phenomenal and car. It's got to 80.
And it's down shifting now. But it wasn't as quick as the Tesla. No, it's not Tesla. It's not Tesla.
It's also not as fast as my Exviades. But it's adequate. It's enough to stir the emotions. Yeah, I think you feel like you're getting faster.
The car's not made of metal carbon fiber. Most of it. Majority of the car's got a part of the doors to sides. I made out of carbon fiber so it didn't have a car.
The other one I like, a car would normally be. Yeah. But yeah, it's an interesting car. It's got a really cool window back here.
Back here, back window. Back window. Also, it's over the back window. So, we're exposing now.
We're used to do that in the guitar. All the exhaust fumes is coming in. Yeah, we can fix these exhaust fumes. We'll just go back in electric mode.
So, there we go. The dash has now got all blue. And the car's completely electric. And to be honest, I've been driving for a few days.
And I thought to myself, you know, I'll be driving this car in petrol and fill it up every couple days. But I've actually been driving it in electric mode. And as you know, over the last 60-odd episodes, I mean, 50, 60, 60-something episodes. You'll all know, this is all know, that Ross hates electric cars.
However, we've had, have you had an epiphany this week? I've had an epiphany. Because we've either tasted the Tesla. Which would have been raving about.
We haven't stopped talking about that car. Still wouldn't like Tesla. I know. But this one's only saying, let's nickel a Tesla, we'll send one.
Unless Elon wants to give us a couple of drive and test drive. Look at it. Still wouldn't like Tesla just on the fact that it doesn't matter what. This is a cool car.
Am I going to spend 400,000 hours on it? That's exactly what I stuff from 300 and worked the way to where it was. So the model we're in now is the new roadster. So later on when we go for a drive into the city, we'll take the roof off.
It's a lot over it. It's completely over it. It's completely over it. It's not a target.
It falls back. Yeah. It's completely... No, no.
It's like a 4-8. You know how the 4-8 folds into the back? Yeah. It's still a soft top.
It's not like a 3-30 converter like the old days. It's a proper target. It comes through the middle. And the...
I ignore it. Oh, they're very cool. What I did did that night. What I did did that night.
I dropped myself to school. It was my teaching up really close to the car door. My son opened the door. He did.
He's smacked it on the chest. So I made sure when I picked him up. So I dropped him up. When I picked him up.
I made sure the teacher that I didn't like was there. I didn't like me very much. But the question has been... I've been stopped in the street by so many people.
What is it? Is it electric? What a cool car? It's got a lot of our factor.
It's been out for five years. This is the thing. It's still pulls a crowd. It's still pulls a crowd.
I made a mine who's got a California teaport up next to me in the opposite side of the street. The guy in the right line looked at me and he's like, what's that? It's an electric electric. Really?
So I think people just don't know what they are. But they've got a serious, serious wow factor. If you look at this car on the street, people look at you and go, what are you driving? What have I seen that before?
So, I've been looking back to the price, but 300. 370. 370. I would buy one of these in a heartbeat two years old for 150, 140.
Would you? Oh yeah. I love the idea. They've stopped making them.
So this is it now. There's no more. Yeah, they're talking about upgrading and doing it. This particular model is done.
Yep. They're looking at a new model. Yep. Which is the thing, launch in 20, 23, 23, 23.
Which is a nice concept. It's a nice car. The hybrid factor I love. I really do love it.
We're still in hybrid. Yeah, we haven't. We haven't. We haven't.
We haven't. We haven't. We don't need to. That's the nice thing about it.
But back to what I was saying, would you go and spend $370,000 on this thing, Brad? No. If I was going to spend $370,000, I'd be looking at a 911 turbo. 911.
It doesn't have the performance. It's got the way out factor. It's got the looks. It just, mate, at that money you want back for your buck, but you want it to think you want.
I mean, just Brad, Brad, this badge is not very coming to a little bit. I'm going to move W.M.A.C. cars and BMW have always had expensive cars. There's no, it's still the badge is enough.
But is it a $400,000 car? No. No. No.
No. That's what I'm saying. I want to pay $400,000 or $350,000 or $300 for it. Yeah.
But it's got, this should be pegged at the 1.8 to $200, man. And it should be, it should be done at that mark and it would sell. There'd be a lot of them. There'd be R8.
There'd be R8, sort of numbers out. I think it might be there. It's got to go up with no headlights. No lights on.
You'd be in W featuring from us. Trying with your auto. Do you want to lean in and just flick it to auto for it? But the interior, I'm just talking about, you know you're in a BMW.
Other than the dash, the dash is just a, it's not a BMW digital dashboard. It's a small futuristic style dashboard. But everything else screams BMW. The acoustic buttons, the iDrive, the screen in the middle.
Problems with it though. You're looking at a car to car wearing is a 2020 compliant car with I think an 18 build. So the two use, the two use to get the other one. Okay.
So the build plates, 18, but the one's not 20. Yeah January 20, this car. February 20. Build 18, indubating.
So for me, the iDrive 6 doesn't do it for me. It's the old auto, you know, the headboard. I drive 7, okay. But it's got the old iDrive 6.
This is got touch grip. Even though they're too far away for you to reach over. Oh you can. Yeah, you can.
Oh just. You're tall. You're tall. Are you comfortable in there?
Cause you're pretty tall. Yeah, pretty tall. I was more comfortable with the roof off this after that. It was a lot more comfortable with the roof off this after.
It's been a really cool car to make the kids up for school. One of them. Just one of them. That was the other problem.
If this car had four seats, that's another thing. Take the price out of it. It's a softish purchase. This is not your daily.
It's a cute daily if you have one kit. Yeah. Or if you're on your own. Pretty much.
I think if you have multiple cars, if you have 60 cars, you've got to have an iH. I'm sure a daily no is going to know you. Sorry. Let's ask.
I'll send him what's out. See if he's got one. Plagning some cars to get out of Cuba. So yeah, look.
I like it. Getting in and out of it. I'm a big guy. I'm 6'4".
I got in. I don't know. I'm going to get out. You'll have to tip you out of it.
I'm going to stop. There was that video that went around viral. I was trying to get out. I was trying to get out.
It's an odd. Talk about getting in and out of it. We're still flying this 65 with the headlights on. Getting in and out of it is really difficult because it's got this really nice big sort of door sill which is halfway up the door and doesn't really have any...
You could go inside. Yeah. Look, the roof, the convertible factor. The electric factor is pretty cool.
It's a lot of people talking. That's pretty much it. I'm in it now with the petrol kick in. I was going to put that house in front of us.
What's been happening to you as a week? It's pretty good. Pretty good. I tried a bunch of them during the week.
I had a B-class diesel for one price. Yeah, it was effortless driving. I'm very boring. I could see that in Europe working.
It was the dash was reading at 5.9 litres, 100k. It was drinking next to nothing. This is drinking next to nothing. No, no, no.
It was making segue now for that new drill. Which I think is a GLC cover. The GLC cover, the GLC. They're coming out of the GLC 53.
GLC 63. They're talking about for Australia. The GLC 35. It's based on the A-class platform.
It's not based on the GLC 35. I think the GLC 45 is not out yet. I don't know how to get 7-6. I haven't had a good look at that.
I was the sort of our friends that were seeing it. I think that's going to change the space. I'm 7-7-7. It's because there's not a lot of 7-7.
If you want to buy 7-7-7, you've got to go to an X-7. You've got to go to a GLS and they're all the two- They're all 2-7-7. You've got to probably say that you can go buy a car and have a lot of them. Or you're feeling a kick-huddle?
I'm driving a kick out of the Queens-Dermars tube. The family on board. It was very young. But it got us there.
I'm going to get back to the ground and get back to the ground. You're going to hit this or what? It makes all the right noises. It does.
It does. It's all sound actually. Yeah. It doesn't sound.
That's not a 3-cylinder. Yeah. Yeah. The sounds are 3-cylinder.
Oh, it goes in my name. We're on this closed airstrip or I'm a driver. That's coming from the speakers, isn't it? Yeah, unfortunately.
So what do you hear outside? Nothing. It's a 6-0. Right, right.
We're teasing our Mustang. Mustang? No, he doesn't know what he hears. No, he doesn't know.
He's just looking for tele-rap, I'll go and hit that for sure. You know what the Mustang drivers say? Don't know what the force on the other one. Is there a force on the Mustang?
It's a pickup boost. Yeah. Do you hear the electric motor kick in as well? No, but yeah, he does.
Which is really cool because he gets a nice... really nice sound. We'll send it into the bolt. I'm sure we're in front of the throttle.
I'm sure we're in front of the throttle or forward drive. I can't work it out. But... Can you go to the bike?
No, I can't work it out. I can't work it out. I don't know where it's from. I can't work it out.
I'll have to go to the laptop. Last night, it was quite wet on the road. So it was sliding the local place a little bit. But overall, great car.
Worth the money, no. Worth the looks. Yes. Every single time.
Everyone looks at the car. They love it. Pegs doesn't want me to have a revamp because it's too cold to wear. That's all.
The acoustic. The acoustic wouldn't be very good. So, yeah, that's it. You didn't even have a flashlight.
Was that a roll? What was that? A roll? A roll?
That's the... It was all sweaty. It was all sweaty back at the back. It was all sweaty back at the back, so it was gone there.
So, well, that's the sounds of an i8. I look like I still give it a big tick. I give it a big tick. A tick for looks.
Don't give it a big tick for price. I give it a tick for anything else. I think the new one when it comes out... I'll definitely make sure I'll be able to be able to drive on the first car so we can do a comparison back to back.
Maybe we'll do one, literally back to back with the old one. And I think it's one of these designs that's not going to date. It's going to be one of those cars. You've got to look back in time and go, yeah, the i8.
It's not going to be one of those cars. The only problem is be if they keep bringing models out of this car. That's going to be the problem. Oh, that's the old A8.
That's the new A8. That's the one I've done throughout the thousand. They haven't even been here for a long time. Yeah.
Well, there you go. Well, that's another live drive with the I8. Live drive. Live drive.
We've got a... There's one or two other cars I've got to save because I've been promised yet. We'll have another car this week. And if you think the I8 is a car that turns hands on, I've got a live drive to organise with another A8.
I'm not going to mention it. So I don't know if you can send it to the UK now. No, it's the UK now that I've got a live drive. So thank you for listening on the live drive.
Email us if you're a listener like Angie last week. If you want us to drive your car, send us an email at balltalkitoutlook.com.au. If we can't get paid out of this car, we'll just have to leave it in. Okay.
I'll just bring the equipment and knock it in the live drive. I'm lucky we're not on YouTube yet so you can have footage of me trying to get out of this thing. I'll open it up though. So thank you for listening.
He doesn't have voice acting for like a garage. No, like a garage. So, yeah, it's only the entertainment is not as fancy as a Tesla. Fancy.
One last hit. Let's go. It's a bit well from the I. It's very, very high-met.
There you have it. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.