RE: BMW Z4 M40i: Driven
Discussion
Love how the armchair commentators once again reckon they know a manufacturer’s market better than the manufacturer. If one prefers the ethos of a Mazda MX5 then that’s fine - buy a Mazda MX5. Meanwhile I’m reasonably sure that BMW know who they want to sell this car to, and in the main, I doubt they’re the type of buyer who will ever even know how much it weighs much less care even if some motoring anarok told them 
Ha ha!
I’ve just been out in the wet in an MX5 D with 180bhp manual box and LSD in the rain with wet leaves everywhere for a 12 mile drive. I’ve had the back end out both ways about ten times, I’ve ragged the thing in the first four gears to the red line, I’ve covered the ground at a heck of a pace on winding B roads and the odd stretch of A road - it was brilliant. And that’s with the hood up on a dark November morning. THATS a convertible sports car.
What this 1.6 ton autobox land yacht is I don’t really know but it shouldn’t really be branded as. Sportscar under trade descriptions laws. I think Yachtcar is about right right actually. Looks good, signals money, not much practical value, opulently appointed, image orientated and mostly owned by wealthy people over 50. It’s a Yachtcar.
They largely also exist because men are idiots. Bigger is always better and a stereo that goes up to 11 must be better than one that goes up to 10. Hence we end up with rwd sportscars with 389lb/ft of torque (which is much more than most farm tractors) using 8 speed gearboxes that can do more than double the national speed limit with more lateral grip than a 1970s F1 car. It’s all just so unnecessary. And expensive.
But to make a Yachtcar like the Z4 actually ugly - for that I think you probably need a committee.
Will sell like hell. :-(
I’ve just been out in the wet in an MX5 D with 180bhp manual box and LSD in the rain with wet leaves everywhere for a 12 mile drive. I’ve had the back end out both ways about ten times, I’ve ragged the thing in the first four gears to the red line, I’ve covered the ground at a heck of a pace on winding B roads and the odd stretch of A road - it was brilliant. And that’s with the hood up on a dark November morning. THATS a convertible sports car.
What this 1.6 ton autobox land yacht is I don’t really know but it shouldn’t really be branded as. Sportscar under trade descriptions laws. I think Yachtcar is about right right actually. Looks good, signals money, not much practical value, opulently appointed, image orientated and mostly owned by wealthy people over 50. It’s a Yachtcar.
They largely also exist because men are idiots. Bigger is always better and a stereo that goes up to 11 must be better than one that goes up to 10. Hence we end up with rwd sportscars with 389lb/ft of torque (which is much more than most farm tractors) using 8 speed gearboxes that can do more than double the national speed limit with more lateral grip than a 1970s F1 car. It’s all just so unnecessary. And expensive.
But to make a Yachtcar like the Z4 actually ugly - for that I think you probably need a committee.
Will sell like hell. :-(
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