BMW i4

What are your thoughts after a few days ownership of the m50 Digiman?

Production or delivery in January? Did they say agreed prices will be honoured?

Ah christ, I’ve ordered the edrive40…they already dropped small amount of the options that I could live without but if they remove any of remaining ones then reckon I’ll have to consider cancelling…complete jokers at this stage.

Got a call from dealer today and it’s back to 24th Oct for production now (had moved to 19th Dec last time tried the genius chat)

Confirmed with genius after the dealer called and it is at 112 and 24th for production.

Ill believe it when I see it!

I’ve had the m50 for 10 days or so now. Very happy with it so far, a few niggles would be that I don’t have comfort access, I’ve had this on every car I’ve had for the last 8 years so it’s a big change. Would have liked to have the sunroof too, laser lights and the 360 cameras.

Drove Dublin to Cork and back at the weekend and the range is pretty poor but I was kind of expecting that anyway. But the car charges amazingly fast at Ionity, I went from 9% to 90% in 40mins with the car taking 205kW at the beginning which is great. It doesn’t have adaptive cruise control either which I miss as it’s weird when you set the cruise control now and it doesn’t slow down when you approach a car so in the end I didn’t use cruise control. There is an option to add this as a software update along with high beam assist but I don’t see this in the menu when I go to that page in the app.

On the way back it rained heavily most of the way and I was averaging about 135kmph on the motorway, I left with 84% and got back to Dublin with 3%, but I did stop for 8mins in Cashel as I had a fair idea it wouldn’t make it to Kill, I added 15kWh in that time. Average consumption on the trip back was 30kWh per 100km which is pretty bad but the rain was very heavy. On the way down in drier weather it was 28.5kWh per 100km which again is pretty poor, but I was driving around 135kmph so I’d expect it to be much better at around 120kmph.

Having the BMW charging card is great as Ionity is only around 26c per kW which is a steal in these times!! It’s almost as cheap to charge there compared to at home during the day.

The performance is amazing, although I do notice quite a bit of torque steer when I launch it, I’ve not had it on a nice twisty road yet so looking forward to that.

Build quality has been excellent, msports seats are comfortable and the screens and dash are pretty great. Car is fairly quiet too, I do notice a much harsher ride compared to my 530e, you can definitely notice the bumps and uneven road surfaces a lot more, my last car did have adaptive suspension though, I don’t think the m50 has it but could be wrong.

Rear space is pretty bad, I’ve 2 car seats in the back and they just about fit in with my driving position, I’m not tall either at 5ft10. Boot has plenty of space though and no problem taking the family away for a few nights, it would probably struggle to take us to airport though if we had 10 days of luggage to squeeze in. Again none of this surprised me, had a fair idea of all this from online reviews and seeing the car before I bought it. I didn’t buy it as the primary family car so no big deal for me but if you did then I’d be looking at that more if I were you!!

Overall delighted with it, worth the long wait, it does make me wet my appetite for the i5 now though!! 😂

So I’d say to the others that are waiting to hang in there, it’s a great car.

Are you planning to take your order next year and trade in this years m50?

What wheels? 20s? I would say 135kmph is the main reason for high consumption.

Shame about the gimped up options but probably the only reason the car was delivered this year it seems.

I couldn't live without all those missing options personally now that I had them in the last few cars.

Based on current pricing and trends, I can see the 40 model of the i5 costing 85/90k plus and the performance model 110k. This would be similar to Mercedes’ eqe prices.

mad money in my view.