Video: sounds like the BMW i8

Posted on 25-03-2014 at 18:52 by Ricardo – 33 Comments”

BMW, we don’t know how you have done it, but that sports car with three cylinders and muesli-injection sounds excellent.

BMW has the relatively light i8 (1.490 kg), a 1.5-liter TwinPower three-cylinder turbo engine fitted. Despite they low engine power this engine delivers 231 hp, which is supplemented by an electric motor on the front axle. This configuration gives the i8 a combined power output of 362 hp and 570 Nm, which allows you to the futuristic coupe in 4.4 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h in hunting.

That specs we know already. All very even. The engine noise was, however, still unknown. Until today. Bimmerpost has a video shot of a accelererende i8 in Sport mode. This is the Active Sound Design (ASD) – that a fictional engine noise through the interior blaring – disabled because it is a test-instance was. The consumer version will have the possibility to ASD to turn off not – though there will undoubtedly be a workaround to be found

Well, the sound. This you hear from 0 to 130 km/h:

Not bad, for a triple. What do we say, this sounds pretty furious. Bimmerpost discovered also something remarkable. The i8 seems to be about a remote ASD system. In the left exhaust is a speaker is placed with an engine noise on the outside stages.

Gallery: BMW i8 Coupe 2014

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