Comments on: 2010 BMW Z4 Roadster (E89): Details & Photos

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:48:25 +0000

this is one hell of a roadster…droolll….wonder how much its gonna cost?

By: Sex is wonderful, but it's like champagne.If you're forced to have four glasses at every meal you start to fantasize about water.

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:23:53 +0000

like a 507

By: MyviKiller

MyviKiller — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:44:45 +0000

This is hell of a more matured looking car.

By: charles27

charles27 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:33:50 +0000

the car and tyres so noisy.. with open roof.. thats annoying laa.

By: Sex is wonderful, but it's like champagne.If you're forced to have four glasses at every meal you start to fantasize about water.

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:31:40 +0000

will this be cheaper than bmw 335i? and then got coupe version or not?

By: qozhx

qozhx — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:16:18 +0000

nice… reminds me of BMW Gina…

By: KKTE

KKTE — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:58:11 +0000

This car is an flawless art. Its looks, power, and design is fabulous! It really over powered its last version. The last one looks kinda cozy but this one looks sporty! Furthermore BMW rarely implant a twin turbo in their engines including this one, but still the engine still gives out such large horsepowers. This car is a must get car( if i have the money).

By: derrickmoh

derrickmoh — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:19:13 +0000

Pretty pleased with the new styling…i always thought that the present Z4 was a nice-looking car, but the front end appeared rather unusually unpleasant to me from some angles…thank goodness the Bangle butt (6 series and 7 series) habit has practically died out by now. I think if they kept the lines of the Z4 with its cool hardtop in place and adapted it into a coupe version, it would look great. Much better, definitely than the present Z4 coupe with its horrendous rear end styled by Adrian van Hooydonk, who’s now BMW Chief of Design after Bangle got promoted to BMW Group Design Chief.

By: ingolstadt

ingolstadt — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:15:04 +0000

tananiki, thanks for your contribution, I can’t imagine how Earth’s gonna be like without people like you.

As for the car, I can’t imagine a BMW roadster with a 3 liter twin turbo engine, not having a handbrake for those added fun factors.

Where’s the fun BMW?

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Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:47:30 +0000

very nice, some more now go hard top. plus look like 6 series. can tell people i spend 300k only u 6er fella pay 700k for ur car.

By: szw

szw — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:40:34 +0000

love it…

By: hfrshah

hfrshah — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:05:46 +0000

I think the car looks decent enough. A mild evolution of the previous model, which is definitely a good thing as the first Z4 was (in my opinion) the best looking Bangle-ed BMW.

I do hope that they will make a hardcore Z4 M Coupe with a (lighter) fixed hard roof, a la the SL/SLK Black. It’s not that I don’t like folding hardtops, they’re a technological marvel, just that in my mind, they have no place in hardcore sports cars. They mess up the weight distribution, weighs a lot, takes up too much space and compromises the overall look of the car (for packaging reasons).

Ferrari claims that their new California’s folding metal hard top weighs less than the F430 Spider’s soft top. That might be true, but if they had tried to develop a new soft top mechanism/design, I’m pretty sure it will be even lighter still (remember that the F430 Spider’s roof design is practically the same as a 360 Spider’s, which was launched way back in 1999). Plus just look at how ungainly the California’s rear end looks.

One more thing, funny how the engine specs for the new Z4 is quite significantly different from other recently launched models.
For instance, the non-turbo 3.0l I6 develops 258bhp here, whereas the one used in the facelifted 3-Series has 272bhp. Looks to me like BMW is pulling its punches to create large-enough gaps between its model range (i.e. 204 vs 258 vs 306), though this could have also been fixed by using the latest version of the 3.0l twin-turbo engine (326bhp in the latest 7-Series).

With all that said, having different outputs for a similar engine is actually not that unusual. Another example of this would be Mercedes’ current 3.5l V6, which produces 272bhp in the C/CLC350, 292bhp in the CLS350 CGI, 305bhp in the SLK350, and 316bhp in the SL350.

By: tananiki

tananiki — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:29:39 +0000

1st…