Had one for a few years.
As a daily driver it’s perfectly comfortable and practical as long as you never need to carry more than one passenger or a carry-on worth of cargo.
It drives great but it’s going to be a step back performance-wise from any model 3. It’s by no means slow, it’s just slower than it looks. Very comfortable in comfort mode, and not too stiff in sport mode.
I will die on the hill that it’s the most beautiful car ever made. But ultimately that’s why I sold it. It just attracted too much attention. You will feel weird parking it in the mall parking lot. You will not be comfortable parking it in the 7/11 in “that part of town.” Anywhere you go everyone will be looking at who is stepping out of it. It is impossible for it to not make a statement everywhere you go (that statement being I’m rich and I want you to know it.) Whether you actually feel that way or not, that’s the vibe it will give off.
Any model 3. The i8 is 4.2s to 60mph in launch mode. Outside of that it’s slower than a Prius in EV mode and there’s a noticeable delay in comfort mode before the engine kicks on. And even compared to sport mode, the model 3 will just plain be more responsive, even if it’s a tiny bit slower off the line.