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Review: 2020 BMW Z4 M40i — Luxury, Style, And Lots Of Muscle
The internet has been a brutal, volatile place of opinions, suppositions, and hypotheses about the BMW Z4 and Toyota Supra, with a lot of the negativity behind the statements “the Supra is just a BMW Z4” and “LOL wow I like this Toyota Supra convertible.” We’re here to ask: how is it a bad thing that they’re the same chassis? Addressing the haters, our Editor in Chief Tom Martin put it best: the mysticism of non-experience. We’ll analyze the upsides and downsides of the Supra and how it compares in a future article, as we got our hands on one literally an hour after the Z4. To start out though, here’s why the Z4 is a great car, and a great choice to “base” the Supra on.
Quick Drive: 2012 BMW Z4 sDrive28i
At just under 3300 pounds, the Z4 doesn’t seem like a lightweight car, but for the purposes of the luxury roadster segment, it actually fares quite well on that front.
Driven: 2012 BMW Z4 sDrive28i
BMW, the self-proclaimed maker of “The Ultimate Driving Machine,” has set some tough standards for their new 2.0-liter engine. That’s good because, frankly, a four-banger replacing one of the most revered sixes in history needs some credibility-building. We have our own standards, so we set off down the Pacific Coast Highway, one of our favorite winding roads, to see what this new engine could do.
Driven: 2011 BMW Z4 sDrive35is
Yes, it has a stupid name, but we understand the problem. “Z4” just doesn’t tell us enough information anymore, not with the complex and wonderful thing that is the 2011 BMW model line at hand, anyway. So we’re stuck with having to refer to this particular roadster as the Z4 sDrive35is, or at least as the Z4 35is, because that last little “s” makes a pretty big difference.
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