New BMW Z4 uncovered....

[Beefmeister]

Photo leaked from a dealership:



I'll wait til i see it in the metal to make my final judgement, but it looks a bit too 'smooth' for me - a sports car should be more aggressive...

[BlueCello]

Looks quite nice, but is that a folding metal hardtop?? I hope it doesn't look as horrid as the hardtop fro the last Z4 did.......

Other than that, I think an M version would look good

[Rob13]

Prefer the current model looking at that......

[VladTheDad]

I like that bonnet. The current one is a bit bulbous but that has a nice sharpness to it.

[tomTVR]

Looks ok, but somehow incomplete..

[hornetrider]

Current model:



I think the original is more coherent, the new lights at the front are very 5 series

[VladTheDad]

tomTVR said:

Looks ok, but somehow incomplete..

No numberplate?

Edited by VladTheDad on Wednesday 3rd December 17:37

[elster]

VladTheDad said:

tomTVR said:

Looks ok, but somehow incomplete..

No numberplate?

Edited by VladTheDad on Wednesday 3rd December 17:37

You can clearly see there are no rear lights on the photo.

[kambites]

Looks less depressed than the current rather dopey looking model.

[J400uk]

Looks good to me. Would it not be called the Z5 though, or have I got it wrong?

[havoc]

Saw it lapping the 'ring at the end of October with light disguise (i.e. outline-disruptive colour-scheme).

It was wearing a hard-top of some description - we couldn't decide if it was a folding one or a detachable one...we guessed at detachable, but may be wrong.


Re: Z4/Z5 - they only renamed it after the Z3:-
1) To disassociate it from the embarassment that was the Z3.
2) Because it was a larger car.

[JCW]

Hard to say without seeing more of it but hopefully they'll stick the V8 in the M version, although on that photo alone, I prefer the existing model.

[SleeperCell]

Los Angeles said:

A last fling from the contrary pen of Crash Angle. I wonder if the proportions are better than prevous versions?

You mean the pen of van hooydonk surely?

[W00DY]

That is horrible. They've moulded some big/dull 5/7 series style lights in then the vent in the bumper has that horrible downward curve which elongates the front end makes it look decidedly unsporty, the old model was a lot nicer but there was definite room for improvement.

[hollowpockets]

Are you people blind? The current one looks like its suffering from a mental illness, new one looks much better.

[astroarcadia]

Has that picture not been photoshopped?

Look at the area around the grill and bonnet?

Hmm.

[Garlick]

Is that chap on the right about to keel over?

[Crusoe]

looks like the photoshops were quite close, front wing shut lines are a bit strange though, think I prefer the old one though wouldn't say no to a 4lr v8 version.

[BlueMR2]

Crusoe said:

looks like the photoshops were quite close, front wing shut lines are a bit strange though, think I prefer the old one though wouldn't say no to a 4lr v8 version.

How tiny do those wheels look. Is it running on 12's.

[mister.t]

Thats not too bad!

Hope the rear end is half decent though!