BMW Z4 News
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If you want to call yourself a "good driver," it's important to follow posted speed limits and obey local laws. That's what being a good driver is all about. Good drivers don't speed 70 mph over the posted limit. However, this is all a precursor to an infraction that actually did occur. NJ.com reports Sang Yook was traveling down Interstate 95 in Maine when a state police aircraft clocked the man traveling at 139 mph. The aircraft radioed local patrol who quickly caught up to Yook's BMW Z4. "There was no one around—the road was very straight, very tempting," said Yook. The trooper then...
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No M for you! BMW won't build hotter version of sports car it's developing with Toyota
A full M version of BMW's next roadster isn't likely to happen, an engineer with the German automaker has revealed. Road & Track recently learned that the new sports car will instead be offered only as a standard model. BMW itself hasn't exactly been confident in the future of the sports car...
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BMW Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS Z4 GT3 Wins 2015 Spa 24 Hours
Belgium’s BMW Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS won this past weekend’s 24 Hours of Spa, the highlight of the Blancpain Endurance Series aimed at private teams. The team’s number 46 BMW Z4 GT3 race car driven by Nick Catsburg, Lucas Luhr and Markus Palttala was the first to cross the...
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BMW Rocking Old-School-Cool Livery On Z4 GTLM Racers For Sebring
BMW used to churn out serious race cars with some seriously cool style back in the day. One car in particular is the Batmobile. No, not the one Bruce Wayne uses to fight Gotham's crime, but rather the classic 3.0 CSL racer with full aero gear and a familiar blue, white, and red paint scheme. It is...
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Sports Car Market Waning, Says BMW
BMW is well-known for its performance cars but the automaker hasn’t offered a pure sports model for years. There’s a good reason for this, according to its sales chief Ian Robertson, and that’s because the sports car market is waning. “The sports car market is roughly half...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
BMW And Toyota Sports Car Platform Progresses To Concept Stage: Report
In late 2011, BMW and Toyota signed a memorandum of understanding for collaboration between the two on a number of projects, one of which was the development of a “midsize sports car platform.” For BMW the new platform is expected to spawn a replacement for the Z4, while for Toyota...
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Toyota has teamed up with BMW to develop a new sports car platform that will underpin a new Supra from the Japanese automaker and a replacement for the Z4 from the German side. BMW is thought to be doing most of the development work for the platform and engines that will power the cars, in return for hybrid and fuel cell technology from Toyota. ALSO SEE: 2016 Acura NSX Burns To The Ground During 'Ring Testing Citing an inside source at Toyota, Japanese magazine Holiday Auto (via Motoring) claims the new Supra will feature a complex hybrid system combining a turbocharged 2.0-liter...
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New Toyota Supra To Share Platform With New BMW Z4: Report
Toyota and BMW have confirmed that a common platform is in development for next-generation sports cars, thought to be for a new generation of the Toyota Supra based on this year's FT-1 concept and a replacement for BMW's Z4. According to Japan's Nikkei daily, the first fruits of each manufacturer's...
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Next BMW Z4 To Share Platform With Toyota Model, Feature Hybrid Tech: Report
In late 2011, BMW and Toyota signed a memorandum of understanding for collaboration on a number of projects, one of which was joint development of a sports car platform that would underpin a model for each automaker. While Toyota has made little secret of its plans for the new platform, having...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
BMW Z4’s New Pure Fusion Design Package Launches At Detroit Auto Show
With an updated Z4 launched only last year, BMW is keeping its updates for the classic roadster to a minimum for the new model year. The only real highlight is a new equipment package, known as Pure Fusion Design, which adds a number of special touches in the cabin. Pure Fusion Design adds premium...
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BMW Rolls Out Its Z4 GTE Racer: Video
When the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) kicks off its 2013 season at Sebring International Raceway on March 16, BMW Team Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing won’t be campaigning its familiar BMW M3. Instead, the team will roll out an all-new BMW race car for the new season, based on the production...
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Next Toyota Supra And BMW Z4 To Share Scion FR-S Platform: Report
Last month it was confirmed Toyota and BMW would collaborate on a new platform that would form the basis of at least one sports car from each of the automakers. For Toyota, the platform would be used for a new generation of its Supra, a car that has been hinted at by the automaker’s execs for...
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The zombie meme is now officially played out. What more-or-less began as a George A. Romero gore-fest in 1973’s Night of the Living Dead has been turned into countless novels and graphic novels, a successful television series and too many movies to count (including the summer-2013 presumed blockbuster, World War Z). And then there’s Warm Bodies, a comedy-horror-romance film about R, a flesh-eating member of the undead, and his undying love for the still-living Julie. If opposites attract, we can’t think of anything more opposite than getting involved with someone who wants...
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2014 BMW Z4 Preview: Fresh Looks, More ConnectedDrive
It's not often that we're flabbergasted by a manufacturer's choice of updates for a car, but now it's happened twice in one evening. First Infiniti goes all Q on us, and now BMW decides to release the second half of what should have been a one-part model refresh. Why would we say that? Because the...
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BMW Zagato Roadster Debuts At 2012 Pebble Beach Concours
Barely three months out from the reveal of the Zagato Coupe at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este, BMW has unveiled the follow-up, this time a roadster, which made its official debut late yesterday at the Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance. Appropriately named the Zagato Roadster, it’s...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
2013 BMW Z4 Spy Shots
BMW is planning a mild update for its Z4 roadster as part of the model’s mid-cycle update. First introduced for 2009, the latest iteration of the Z4, the third since the original Z3 introduced in 1996, brought with it a much more mature look and feel. As the car’s styling has received...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
BMW Recalls ActiveE Electric And Z4 For Power Steering Issue
A potential fault with the power steering system could mean owners lose the power assistance of their car's steering.
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BMW Zagato Coupe Unveiled At Villa d'Este
The Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este is, aside from being somewhat awkwardly named for American English speakers, one of BMW's favorite outlets for pure design concepts. This year, it's the BMW Zagato Coupe. Designed in collaboration with Zagato, the Zagato Coupe is a unique take on the idea of a...
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Make a list of the world’s best-handling roadsters, and what would be on it? The Porsche Boxster, without a doubt, and likely the Honda S2000 (even though it’s no longer in production). We’d expect to see the Nissan 370Z on the list, as well as the Mazda MX-5 Miata. On the other hand, we wouldn’t expect to see the BMW Z4, or its predecessor, the BMW Z3. While both of BMW's roadsters provide plenty of open-air entertainment on a winding road, neither is the equal of the Boxster or the S2000 in the handling department. To correct that, Inside Line cites “well...
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2012 BMW Z4 sDrive28i: First Drive
The venerable BMW inline six-cylinder is, and has long been, one of our favorite engines. But for 2012, it's being replaced, in naturally aspirated guise, with a turbocharged four-cylinder. Blasphemy? Sorry, no. Not at all. That's right: The turbo four-cylinder in the 2012 Z4 sDrive 28i is a worthy...
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BMW Z4 Design Pure Balance Package: Gallery
Pure Design Balance is a good name for this special package on the BMW Z4, balancing dark and light while also balancing sport and luxury.
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BMW Brings The Four-Cylinder Back With 2012 Z4 sDrive28i
European luxury and sports car makers are no strangers to four-cylinders--they just rarely bring them to the U.S. BMW changes that this year, however, with the introduction of the four-cylinder Z4 sDrive28i. Sporting 2.0-liters of displacement and a twin-scroll turbocharger, it packs 240 horsepower...
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2011 BMW Z4 GT3 Race Car Roars Into Action
After its inaugural year, BMW’s Z4 GT3 privateer race car is back for another season of tarmac action, this time with a number of modifications to keep it abreast of the field in the ever-competitive FIA sanctioned GT3 series. The updated 2011 BMW Z4 GT3 has now survived its baptism of fire...
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Report: Base BMW Z4 To Get 200-HP Turbo Four-Cylinder
Turbos, as we've mentioned, are our friends. Soon, they'll be friends to base BMW Z4 owners, too, according to a recent tweet from Automobile Magazine. How soon? Later this year, according to the unsourced tidbit. It's slated to replace the base naturally aspirated 3.0-liter inline six-cylinder...
Nelson Ireson