4 Incredible Things You Could Buy For The Price Of The BMW i8’s New Red Paint Scheme
When Bentley unveiled the Bentayga late last year, we were left speechless, and not for the reason that you might expect. The 600bhp W12 was certainly impressive, and we loved the sophisticated, yet in your face styling of the 4x4 brute, but the thing that left us gob-smacked was in fact nothing more than an option. Well, a £150,000 option. Basically, for the price of a brand new Porsche 911 GT3 RS, you could have yourself a Breitling Tourbillon incorporated into the dashboard of your already overpriced SUV. Something which, let’s face it, does the same job as a cheap Casio.
Clearly, not wanting to miss out on the action, BMW have set out to beat the chaps from Crewe at the game of most pointless option. How have they done this you might ask? Well, quite simply, BMW has unveiled a new limited run i8, called the Protonic Red Edition, which is basically, yep, you guessed it, an i8, painted in red. To be fair, the car also receives a few new additions like W-spoke alloy wheels, carbon trim and red stitching on the seats, but really, the whole point of this ‘exclusive’ package is that you can now buy your hybrid supercar in Protonic Red. A colour ‘created exclusively’ for the i8. Impressive stuff…
So how much will this, as BMW puts it, ‘individuality’ cost you? Well, once you factor in the new £2500 Government grant which will be applied to hybrid cars from 1 March, the Protonic i8 will cost £110,035. That’s a whopping £7995 premium over the standard £102,040 i8.
Unfortunately, if you’re desperate for a red i8, you’ll have to wait until September 2016, when the Protonic Red Edition officially goes on sale. But this got us thinking. Why not buy the standard car, and then spend the £7995 that you have left over on one of the following options:
BMW E46 £7995
You could get yourself a proper M car. There are plenty of examples for sale which fall under £8000.
1986 Bentley Eight £7993
Your new i8 is all well and good, but what if you need to go on a family road trip? Lope across continents in this luxurious Bentley. Just ignore the maintenance bills…
BMW S1000RR £7800
You already have BMW’s halo car. Why not get the halo bike to match? BMW S1000RRs tend to hold their value, but a few have dropped below £8000.
Breitling For Bentley B06 S Automatic Chronograph £7830
If you’ve just purchased a new BMW i8, you clearly enjoy the finer things in life. Why not treat yourself to a luxury timepiece? And whatever Bentley says, you don’t need to spend £150,000 to get your hands on a beautiful Breitling.
So CTzens, let us know, has BMW come up with the most pointless special edition ever? What would you purchase with the leftover cash? Let us know!
Comments
I would buy a M3 and start working for CT lol
M3 and a GTR lol
What gabz didn’t want us to know id he got fired when he bought a 330ci
BRUTAL. LOL
That protonic red adds 100 HP
Don’t get me wrong, dear CTzen, but this new BMW Individual Protonic Red mod adds a whopping 100hp to the crankshaft, the red interior stitching provides better tarmac grip and the carbon fibre trim saves more than 100kg of the originally lightweight and agile i8.
If you want a red i8 without paying 8000 pounds,wrap it in red. Probably you’ve saved 7750 pounds to buy better things
yes but thats not bmw red xD
tbh, it’s a pretty boring red, imo, the blue is 1000x nicer
Looks better in Ionic Silver with the blue ‘accents’ anyway.
Hmmm…. £8000. Let me check my wallet…. I have roughly £0.85. I’ll just buy this potato instead. :P
Its tasty?
Potato is a very good choice. It is god’s food. You can bake it, fry it, cook it, make chips, french fries and every other thing you can do with a potato.
Either that or a PS4/Xbox1. Same thing different flavor of potassium.
#GloriousPCMasterRace
For that money, you might as well get it repainted red instead.
S1000RR and a Breitling or red paint I’ll take the first two please
Ambitious but rubbish…
The ones who are willing to pay 8 grand more on an > 100k car probably aren`t interested what else you could have for that money. I like that red shade,its also a limited edition run with some nice extras, so its not only that color. Look for that yellow on the AMG GT, thats pricey.
Yeah I don’t really see the big deal here. You always pay more for a limited edition of a car, and when the car costs 100 grand in the first place I don’t think 8k more for the limited edition is that out of the ordinary or a “pointless option”