![]() ![]() They also reaffirm the central point about the best convertibles, it seems to me, via that sense of visual impermanence. They seem to be able to seal a cabin at speed almost as well as a hard-top would these days. ![]() Cloth hoods are lighter, simpler and easier to package, all of which makes them a much better fit for any sports car. It’s pleasing to note that the car industry’s elongated dabble with the folding metal hard-top is now mostly over. How the Z4 was built around its soft-top roof The headline version of the new car gets lightweight 18in alloy wheels as standard, as well as an eight-speed automatic gearbox, lowered and adaptively damped sport suspension, uprated brakes and a torque-vectoring electronic locking differential. A 3.0-litre turbo straight six (M40i), with M Performance derivative status, glitters away temptingly at the top of the range and is endowed with 335bhp and 369lb ft of torque (which, Z4 fans will note, is actually no more grunt than the outgoing BMW Z4 sDrive35iS had). ![]() BMW Z4 sDrive20i Sport 2019 first driveĪt launch, buyers will be able to choose between 194bhp and 255bhp t urbocharged 2.0-litre petrol engines in the 20i and 30i respectively.That fact, more than anything, might be the reason why Munich hasn’t shrunk it down or changed it around too much, because doing so would only have made engineering the car on a common platform harder. This is the car Munich has been developing in tandem with industry giant Toyota since 2013, of course – the platform sibling of the incoming Toyota Supra. The latest, third-generation version drops the folding metal hard-top of the 2019-2016 BMW Z4, but it's still slightly longer, wider and heavier than its immediate predecessor.Ĭhunkier or otherwise, though, BMW will tell you that this is an attempt to reverse the move made by its predecessor away from uncompromising driver appeal – to represent BMW’s traditional sporting DNA as best a modern front-engined, rear-wheel-drive roadster can and maybe even give owners of the four-cylinder Porsche 718 Boxster S greater pause for a silken six-pot reverie than it has managed before. The Z4, on the other hand, has been successful enough to convince BMW to directly replace it not once but twice. ![]()
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