No top, no turbo, no fun?
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With the top dropped, a country drive through some back roads is total bliss.
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BMW has redesigned its roadster for 2009, and the change amounts to comprehensive maturation, if not quite the obvious transformation from newborn Z3 to adolescent Z4.
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Now exiting its awkward adolescence, BMW's Z4 Roadster sDrive35i may not have the purity of the old M Roadster, but it essentially equals its straight-line performance and its handling is even better.
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Can a True Roadster be this High-Tech?
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Hardtop Evolution: Change Has Come to the New Z4 From Top to Bottom
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Forget the Porsche 911: if what you want is to be noticed, buy a 2008 BMW Z4 coupe.
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2007 BMW Z4 M Coupe Nearly perfect
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The Z4 M Roadster may not be able to top Porsche's Boxster, but it's one of the last places you can find BMW's 330-hp inline-six.
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Read the Long Term report on the 2007 BMW Z4 M Coupe, which features a 3.2-liter in-line six and produces 330 hp @ 7900 rpm with 262 lb-ft @ 4900 rpm.
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While you can now forget about owning a Camel, Spad XIII, Nieuport 17, or Fokker D-VII, you could consider the BMW Z4 3.0si, the Porsche Boxster, and Audi's new TT 3.2 Quattro Roadster as A-1 substitutes.
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Picking an it's-only-money favorite here is like dynamiting fish in a pail.
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Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin Cruelly sprawling over eleven different halles, the Frankfurt auto show can sap the energy of even the most wild-eyed car geek. Last fall, at the end of my final day there, I was slogging toward the street, walking gingerly on blistered
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If the Porsche 911 Turbo and Corvette Z06 are about power and grip, the Z4 M and Cayman S are all about balance.
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Watch two of Germany's finest closed sports cars battle it out in a revolutionary new 3D environment. View the virtual road tests between the BMW Z4 M Coupe and the Porsche Cayman S here.
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The Porsche Boxster versus BMW roadster rivalry is certainly not a new one, as two different iterations of Z3-based M roadsters have been offered to Americans during the Boxster's tenure. The first one bowed in 1998 with the 240-hp, 3.2-liter six from the E36-
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I was a bit worried. As the magazine's most enthusiastic fan of our long-term Z4, I've frequently had to explain (read: defend) the SMG to the unbelieving. I told all who would listen that the SMG was a very good transmission; you just needed to learn the shift points and pay attention to them.
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It's been a very long time since BMW came up with a show car that caused any of us to gasp with pleasure, to make us say, "Gotta have it!" X Coupe? Nah. CS1? Not really. xActivity? Thanks, but no thanks. This year at the Frankfurt show, however, almost out of
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It was with great anticipation that we took the keys of our long-term BMW Z4.
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Our BMW Z4 made several long trips during this last quarter, so notes about its highway characteristics were abundant.
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Two-seaters are in trouble. Or so claimed a piece in trade journal Automotive News. I came across the grim report just as I sat down to write the final chapter of our year with the Z4, and it was shocking to see that year-to-year sales of such cars as the Mercedes-Benz SLK, Porsche Boxster and Z4 ha
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Two-seaters are in trouble. Or so claimed a piece in trade journal Automotive News. I came across the grim report just as I sat down to write the final chapter of our year with the Z4, and it was shocking to see that year-to-year sales of such cars as the Merc
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One of the first lessons I learned as an automotive journalist is that it takes time to appreciate the little things in a car new to my experience. Perhaps it's just human instinct that makes me notice, at first, every little detail that I dislike, and it's only after a couple of days that I begin t
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With the complaints piling in about the SMG gearbox, we had the dealer check it out during our first service visit.
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One of the first lessons I learned as an automotive journalist is that it takes time to appreciate the little things in a car new to my experience. Perhaps it's just human instinct that makes me notice, at first, every little detail that I dislike, and it's on
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