2024 BMW i4: Regular Car Reviews

Comparing EVs to appliances is valid. EV drivers are almost always an NPC who sees a car as just transportation. No heart, no soul, just get in, drive it to work, go to the store, come home, plug it in when you get home. Only go to gas stations for a quick piss or a piece of pizza and a Coke.

5:08 holy shit that was the first time he's legitimately grossed me out in YEARS

I’m a valet driver & this is my personal favorite car I’ve driven, tied with the 760i. One time I drove this i4—the guest asked “do you know how to drive it?”…I say “yes, it’s automatic right?” To which she responds “no, it’s an electric automatic.” Which I found funny.
This car is engaging & refined in the way Teslas are numb & dystopian. I would tie an i4 with a BMW 7 series for personal favorite car.

"freewheeling" mode is just powering the motors to overcome the resistance. unless the motor is being clutched out of the drivetrain (like the rear axle on a rivian in "eco" mode) you're absolutely not gaining efficiency through different coast modes. It's just that you're driving more like a saint

Somewhere, a reviewer said this car has the "pig snout of doom!" Phil the Cat

BMW's success trickled down from the Motorsport line of vehicles. What the hell is the E///M gonna offer? Fully unlocked subscriptions? 😂

Tonight Mr. Regular sounds like Dr. Zoidberg, I have a good day, and my friends are playing Farming Sim

magnificent commentary!

Zoidberg at 5 min mark is top tier Billy West energy

There are some things that insurance companies have yet to learn about EVs. And once they do, insurance on them will skyrocket.

18:26 The door close sound is worse than my MK6 VW Jetta. Big yikes.

EV infrastructure would be so much easier to implement if we used 230-240V like Europe

The reverse noise is, like, collecting something in a platformer but slowed down.

Did Mr. Regular just give us the perfect recipe for a thick cut NY Strip? I think he did. If you wanna get even more fancy you can make cowboy butter, which is just melted butter with herbs, spices, onion powder (usually), mustard (sometimes and very little of it), and any other mix of seasonings. Let it harden up a bit, roll it into a log of Saran Wrap, stick it in the fridge to harden up, then slice it for even better butter. But butter is good by itself 😂

Is it more efficient to regen vs coast? in modern EV's at normal driving speeds, its likely pretty close, but coasting will always be more "efficient" than regen. There are always losses, and capturing energy to re-use to accelerate will cause some of that energy to be lost to the inefficiencies of the system. Coasting isn't trying to convert that energy and so you don't loose a bit every time it goes from kinetic to potential and back to kinetic. There are still have driveline losses, but you have those in both cases so you can probably ignore them. because modern regen is pretty efficient, and the amount of energy being converted isn't that big in comparison, the difference will be pretty small. The point about how you are likely to drive differently, being much more gentle on acceleration and braking likely has a very large effect on the overall efficiency since all vehicles, and especially EV's are much more efficient when you drive them gently.

I’ve never actually seen anyone use that center burner before.

The more I see and learn about new BMWs, the more I like vintage Mercedes-Benzes

Your Dr. Zoidberg impression is flawless. It's as if Zoidberg was talking about his beloved BMW

prelavant! 😀

I guess people who love ev forgot about the freeze we had this past winter where the cars were so dead they wouldnt even unlock…

6:04 nice finger vignette

"Prevalent" — unless you meant "prelevant" as a new word to indicate the prevalence of something relevant. In which case, well done. I've coined the term "camaraderal" to describe a feeling or atmosphere of camaraderie, and a 4-year-old friend of mine uses the word "tomorning" to indicate "tomorrow morning". Either way, this was a great episode. RCR is really on an upswing this summer. Rock on, lads!

ETA: I don't need the government to figure out what kind of plug to use. FFS, they eff up EVERYTHING they touch. The whole reason EVs exist in the first place is because of government money (our money). Soooooo, yeah. I'm good. Leave them the hell out of it.

If you want an EV that feels like an ice… Go for an EV that's based on an ICE platform

i dont care how good those cars are, the new BMW's all look like Molerats to me

As someone who has indeed driven the absolute PISS out of a new i4….it indeed feels like every single other EV. It just does. There's not enough justifiable difference between it and, say, a Model 3. Or really any other EV at the end of the day. And frankly, that buzzy feeling is all synthetic. It's not real, and it most definitely doesn't feel like the proper ICE favorites of BMW. Modern ICE equivalents at BMW are also fairly synthetic now, so it's kind of a Joey-esque MOO point.

At this point, the only differences with EVs has to do with weight, damper tuning, spring selection. To a lesser degree, it's suspension component material but, even that is whatever. What most people feel when they drive any vehicle, is power delivery. And with every single EV, unless you're pushing the absolute limits of the full charge capacity….it's about the same.

That is 1 UGLY car and getting uglier. Just plug it in at home….. full tank every morning

12:50

You lie! You have thoughts about every car. Thats why we're all here.

Maybe I'm out of touch and just poor but I have never sat in a ev these aren't regular to me. I'm stuck in my beloved 2012 tahoe where I'll die

Trying to open the trunk with the feet. Fail!

This RCR is sponsored by GUN OIL!

not even cool airport people movers like a black on black extended wheel-base lincoln town car

15:36 PRELEVANT? Or PREVALENT?
Sorry, it was really bothering me

EVs lack soul.

7:31 what the hell is that blinking thingy doing on a BMW??

People crying about the lung grill probably don't realize that in other markets half of the grill is obscured by the plate anyway. It makes it almost ignorable