BMW will build a new line of I3 petrol engines for the i8 plug-in hybrid sports car at its English engine plant at Hams Hall, near Birmingham.

So far shown as a concept, the i8 previews a sports car with plug-in hybrid combining electric drive with a turbocharged engine producing 349hp/300Nm. Claimed acceleration to 100km/h is in under five seconds and the car is said to get 78mpg on the European combined cycle.

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Plug-in range is said to be about 20 miles.

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