RE: New BMW Z4 At The 'Ring

[henrycrun]

Why does it need a hard roof ? More weight and motors to go wrong

[mrclav]

henrycrun said:

Why does it need a hard roof ? More weight and motors to go wrong

BMW wouldn't make it if people didn't want it - perceived safety in case of accident/rollover etc...

[AlexRWD]

Gizmo535 said:

A TURBO M-CAR? Wrong. M-cars are about big, highly tuned normally aspirated engines, with the corresponding delicacy and brute force that implies.

Agreed!

There was a time, some years ago now, when Audi and Mercedes and other people were using more turbos and superchargers, that BMW said it would never use turbos for its performance cars .....

[scotty_917]

This article was in last weeks Autocar....

[steve-p]

I expect we will see a lot more turbo cars since they are supposed to be more fuel efficient. In practice they probably do better in the CO2 and official fuel consumption tests but no better or maybe even worse in real use.

[OJ]

I believe BMW pioneered the use of turbos in the 1970s...

[Dr S]

Mark-C said:

Why oh why do cars keep having to get larger and heavier?

spot on. 'nuff said!

[A10ENW]

I seem to remember a BMW ad from the 80's for one of its high performance models which stated that the car needed a turbo like Concorde needed a propellor. Anyway, all BMs are ugly these days, IMHO.

[adycav]

I bet there'll be a diesel one. Or possibly two - 123d/335d engines.

[Jimbeaux]

bradmitchell said:

Birds car.

I drive one, come try to bang me Junior. Oh, for purposes of keeping the peace....have a

Edited by Jimbeaux on Thursday 1st May 03:04

[Miguel]

OJ said:

I believe BMW pioneered the use of turbos in the 1970s...

Which was long after General Motors pioneered road-going turbocharged cars in the early 1960's with the Chevrolet Corvair and Oldsmobile F85.

Miguel

[Miguel]

AlexRWD said:

Gizmo535 said:

A TURBO M-CAR? Wrong. M-cars are about big, highly tuned normally aspirated engines, with the corresponding delicacy and brute force that implies.

Agreed!

There was a time, some years ago now, when Audi and Mercedes and other people were using more turbos and superchargers, that BMW said it would never use turbos for its performance cars .....

According to other reports, such as the one in Autocar, the M version of the Z4 will use the M3's naturally aspirated V8.

Miguel