BMW celebrates its centenary this year, and Lucire presents two road tests this week to commemorate this milestone. Both are cars that could well mean a game change for the motoring industry, as BMW begins its second century
main photograph by Stuart Cowley
In electric company
Lucire gets to live with the BMW i3, rather than take it for a cursory test drive, and Jack Yan thinks he’s seen the future
photographed by Stuart Cowley
Standing out in today’s world
Ian Ryder is so impressed with the BMW i8 that he believes it’s a design icon that can legitimately be considered in the same breath as some of the great supercars
photographed by the author
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