It's bean.

Six years since the BMW I ate arrived seven years since the eye three launched and now in 2020 BMW is ready to expand its eye portfolio with this.

The concept I fought, I say concept because this is pretty much 85% the production car that you're gonna be able to buy from next year.

Gone is the really radical styling from the eye.

Three in the I ate, replaced instead with a relatively conventional four.

Siri's Grand Coop, a body BMW I is going mainstream.

Let's get straight to the numbers because the eye for features BMWs, fifth Generation E Drive technology.

What that means is an electric motor, single speed gearbox and power electronics, all housed in a single casing.

It's real.

Drive on a 550 kilogram, 80 kilowatt hour lithium ion battery is spread under the floor.

The result is an M for worrying.

523 brake horsepower, not 62 in four seconds and a W.

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P range of 373 miles.

Charging capacity is up to 150 kilowatts, not as fast as a Tesla model s or the poor tyke and then, but fast enough for not to 80% in around 35 minutes.

Let's dissect this design a little bit then, and we'll start the front.

Where else with the grill, if I can call it that actually has no air intake properties, of course, because this is an electric car.

Doesn't need the cooling, what it does his house, a variety of senses.

BMW calls it an intelligence panel.

I say it's not quite a scary as it was on the force.

Siri's coupe concept, but still reminds me a bit of a pantomime dame.

Make of that what you will.

You'll also notice this blue highlight line that runs around the grill that is used on the exterior of the car to highlight the points that make it.

That denoted is an electric car.

So on the blanked out grill along the side sills, suggesting the skateboard battery that's under the floor, they're on on the diffuser at the back where you'd normally have exhaust pipes moving on around the side.

Yes, 21 inch Aargh wheels.

I think this is gonna be a feature.

We're gonna see a lot more of on electric cars.

Manufacturers making a design point of error wheels because of you can save precious drag in this area, traditionally the most turbulent area on the car.

Well, then you can increase your range by a few precious smiles carrying on and we'll fly past this area because that is where the car looks most conventional and come around the back.

Just two more things I want to show you here.

The first is the super thin L shaped tail lights, which look very crisp and very nice on the second.

Is this the bad BMW badge?

It's an all new BMW logo.

Get up close and you'll see it's much more to D than it was before.

In here.

It's got a transparent see through application so you can see the paint color underneath.

That's because the eye brand, it's all about being friendly and airy and light and approachable.

This is the first time we've seen the logo, and then it's gonna be rolled out across other models.

So overall, the eye four different enough to petrol and diesel four series to give you that smug sense of satisfaction not different enough to make you stand out like a sore thumb.

Wear.

BMW has really gone to town, though, is with the sounds this car makes teaming up with legendary film composer Hans Zimmer.

It's created various sound worlds for the eye for that include increasingly sporty driving noises as you move through the sport efficient and core driving modes on various bongs and jingles.

When you open the door and push the buttons, Andi now it won't play the theme tune to Gladiator.

When you start it up, we asked if the exterior of the eye for is the eye brand showing it's more restrained.

Side well in here is letting his hair down a bit.

Everything is dominated by this massive screen in front of you, and you'll see the way it just curves away to the center of the car.

That so it's pointed orientated towards the driver.

The I four is the driver's electric BMW.

Don't forget the next SUV that comes next year.

That's the one that's crammed with autonomous tech.

So what we got in front of me?

The instrument display over here, This is the touch screen, and believe me, everything is within the touch screen.

you've got Crystal.

I drive controller down here, but everything, including the climate control, is up here on the screen.

And as we've seen in allergies, that's not necessarily a good thing.

There's no basil around the edge of the screen, barely any basil, and there's definitely no shroud.

That's because it's covered in a non reflective glass, so you simply don't need one.

And the rest of the interior, well, it's certainly pared back the vents here a pretty much invisible instead of a normal BMW.

Dear leave.

You've just got this subtly integrated toggle down here and these super squishy, soft, rounded seats with barely any stitching on display.

Well, that's because this car is modern on modern means.

Minimalist.

You might imagine, with this Cooper ish roof line and a battery under your feet that the back seats would be cramped.

But they're no.

This is a genuinely usable car, although we suspect that not back boot won't be massive.

The lobbying for a knife or touring starts here.

You get this sense with this car that it's the product of everything BMW learned in the financially challenging but technically brilliant I three and I ate experiment that if you want to make money from electric cars, well, you need to give them a more usable range, and you need to make them more economically in existing factories.

Which is why this will be built in Munich alongside the three.

Siri's and Force here is only deviating from the production line to have its batteries on motors installed.

So BMWs assault on the E V mass market starts.

Now.

This year, we're gonna get the mini.

We're gonna get the i X three later, and the next year we're gonna have the eye for on the next.

This is no longer just a toe in the water.

This is BMW pulling on it, buddy.

Smugglers on diving right in.