2024 BMW i4: Regular Car Reviews

This week on Regular Car Reviews, it's a BMW! It's an EV! But is the 2024 BMW i4 xDrive40 actually a game-changer in the electric vehicle market? Or is it just another Tesla? Is it possible to be passionate about a BMW that doesn't really feel like one? RCR investigates whether this
is the new standard for EVs, or just BMW being BMW.

00:00 Intro
00:36 Good Chop Ad
3:27 BMW Feeling
9:19 Power
11:49 History
13:38 Butt History
16:50 POV driving

New 2nd channel "Regular and Roman"

[stephankyle]

"Cobbling happiness out of limited transitionary experiences." That one hit hard.

[claywalton-hadlock]

Man can you imagine stumbling across this, with no familiarity with the channel, just looking for a review of this car, and five minutes in he's still doing... Whatever that was. 😂

[exp]

"GIVE ME YOUR BIG BOX OF MEAT" is a decent first line on Grindr...

[villejussila]

The DRL's used to be angel eyes. Now they're reading glasses.

[Schmidt]

BMW could have gone with a nice classic late 90s/early 00s front grille design but OH NO LET'S REMIND THEM WE ARE GERMAN LET US PUT HITLER STACHE ON FRONT LOL

[seabomb]

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.

[armorchev]

I was not prepared for Dr. Zoidberg going full Karen in the beginning/middle of this.

[jamesm]

Look at the SIZE of the kidney grilles on THAT ONE!! Why?! Just why?!!

[JimmyDoresHairDye]

Your sponsor should name itself MeatSpin

[iggy]

"if I held my breath for that, the brain damage would be irreversible"

Bravo

[mcspikesky]

Coasting is most definitely mote efficient. There are motor losses, controller losses and battery losses. Moving that energy isn't free.
Source: Motor test and validation engineer.

[oldsmobilethompson]

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

[inconel]

17:18 just going through the menu in GTA IV

[SamLed]

This car's front end looks like my two buck teeth at ten years old before braces fixed the problem.

[evanrhildreth]

"All EVs feel the same" - I'd say most ICEVs feel the same too. Cars are more powerful than ever, but are somehow less fun, as if they traded their personality for power. EVs are not the death of ICEVs, crossovers with 8-speed automatics were the death of ICEVs.

[thierryvt]

Coasting is more efficient than regen braking because no energy conversion can be 100% efficient. Grabbing energy from the wheels through the motors and putting it in the batteries is a double energy conversion. Kinetic -> electric -> chemical. You lose some energy at each step.
That's in theory, real world though? Negligible. Pretty much because of what you mentioned: driving while maximizing coasting requires you to pay a lot more attention, aint nobody got the energy and willpower for that lol. Just minimize the use of friction brakes.

[IdotheQuipsNotYou]

The reverse noise sounds like
PLEASE INSERT A PLAYSTATION 2 OR PLAYSTATION FORMAT DISC

[VERITASPUREBLOOD]

the screens instead of gauges bugs the hell outta me. looks cheap and childish.

[bkroeckel]

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

[nastybun]

The reverse sound just sounds like my work laptop when the keyboard sticks and it's just repeating the error bing endlessly.