Journalist Puts BMW I8 On Its Roof in Mexico City

In light of Bark M.’s post on the possible propensity of Fiesta STs rolling over while autocrossing, and TTAC’s tradition of commenting when autojournos manage to wreck press cars (disclaimer: I once brushed a Fiat Abarth’s wheel against a curb), we bring you this report from Wrecked Exotics. A so far unidentified journalist taking an early production BMW i8 for a test drive near Mexico City managed to roll the gas-electric hybrid supercar, leaving it bottoms up.

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  • Tane94 Not New Jersey, that's for sure!!
  • Syke Hopefully they do consider the American market, as I'll be looking at trading in my current Bolt sometime in '25 or '26, and we've had a long good experience with Kia products. Given what GM is currently promising, I'll be looking at Kia well before any upcoming GM product.
  • Jkross22 Full self drive - lol, Tesla isn't immune from naming things that are the opposite of what they are and what they do.
  • Elrond Why does TTAC, the Press, Commenters, and even General Motors use "GM" when referencing? They changed it to gm quite a while ago.
  • Corey Lewis A too-big building that's dated. Easier to sell it off than mess with its continual administration.