2022 BMW i4 M50 xDrive Review: Here to Convince the Skeptics

Auto123 reviews the 2022 BMW i4 M50 xDrive.

When I first got behind the wheel of the Porsche Taycan a little over a year ago, I was pretty sure I'd found the ultimate driver’s car of the electric segment. Just try to beat that, I thought! Since then, a few other purely electric cars have found their way into my driveway, but none of them have managed to eclipse the performance of Porsche’s splashy entry into the EV sphere. The only possible exception was the Audi RS e-tron GT – which happens to be a very close cousin of the Taycan.

Cut to this spring. As it happened, I test drove three electric crossovers (Volkswagen ID.4, Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6) just a few days before taking a seat in the new BMW i4 M50 xDrive, a five-door sedan that I was eagerly anticipating driving, I must confess. Of that first trio, the EV6 impressed me the most. As for this first true electric Beemer? (we shouldn’t really count the outlier that was the early electric BMW’ the i3). I honestly did not expect that the new i4 would seduce me quite as thoroughly as it did.

Here are some of the reasons why I literally fell in love with this discretely beautiful EV.

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