The i8 will be the first production car to use the chemically hardened material, which is more durable, lighter and provides more sound deadening than conventional laminated automotive glass.

The BMW i8 plug-in-hybrid sports car is just the sort of crazy project that could help redefine the BMW brand – and perhaps even the notion of what makes a car enthusiast – for the 21st Century.

So BMW’s M division went back to the drawing board and penned ... So the idea of this car would have been to take the basics of i8 — if you look at the window shape, that’s actually i8 ...