The BMW Z4 is now in its twenty first mannequin 12 months, 34 years after the primary Z Sequence vehicles had been constructed. I have been seeing discarded Z3s for a number of years now, throughout my travels by way of the boneyards, however its E85 successor seems to have held onto its worth effectively sufficient to get fastened when it will get bent or damaged… till now. This is a first-year E85 Z4, present in a automobile graveyard in Northern California.
Simply because the Z3’s chassis was derived from that of the E36 3-Sequence, the primary Z4 was primarily based on the platform of the E36’s successor, the E46.
American Z4 buyers in 2003 had their selection of two straight-six engines: a 2.5-liter rated at 184 horsepower and a 3.0-liter rated at 225 horsepower.
This automobile has the two.5-liter engine. The MSRP on this automobile was $33,100, or about $54,804 in 2023 {dollars}.
The inside has been totally gutted by bargain-hunting junkyard buyers, however the pedal depend tells us that it got here with the five-speed computerized transmission quite than the bottom 5-speed guide (the three.0i got here with a 6-speed guide as normal gear).
The Z4 Coupe did not grow to be out there till the 2006 mannequin 12 months, so it was obligatory convertibles for all Z4 consumers when this automobile was new.
It seems that this automobile had an unlucky scrape-the-guardrail incident, adopted by not-so-effective repairs involving physique filler and tape.
There will probably be extra junkyard Z4s to return, they usually’ll get picked over much less shortly as they grow to be extra commonplace.
Driving by way of a puddle has by no means been so exhilarating. The German-market adverts had been extra artsy.
0 mph by no means regarded so quick.