What We Learned After Testing a BMW i4 xDrive40 for 40,000 Miles

Read more: https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a46502687/2024-bmw-i4-xdrive40-reliability-maintenance/ Do you have a relationship with your toaster? Or your coffee maker, or your phone? Of course you do. We're all engaged with our technology to one degree or another. When the things we rely on and spend time with make our lives better and give us pleasure, we're happily codependent. But should our tech prove annoying, glitchy, or unreliable over the long haul, well, breaking up isn't hard to do. And that's why we live with many of our 10Best winners, like this 2024 BMW i4 xDrive40 Gran Coupe: to reveal whether the inevitable peccadillos that surface over 40,000 hard miles sour or cement our relationship with them. For our purple Bimmer, it's the latter. Our long-term test car is about to depart the C/D parking lot one last time, and when it does, we'll be blowing it kisses and wishing it well. After all, we've got some serious history with it; it's been with us since November 2023, making it one of the longest-tenured long-termers we've had in our test fleet. We crowned it a 2023 10Best winner because its character charmed us. Subscribe to Car and Driver http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBEtoCARandDRIVER 00:00 Intro 00:40 What We Got 01:33 What We Liked 03:54 What We Didn't Like 05:30 Range and Charging 07:16 Maintenance 08:30 Winter 10:11 Wrap up