{"id":1282,"date":"2005-09-18T20:03:43","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T20:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2005\/09\/18\/bmw-z4-coupe\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T13:50:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:50:33","slug":"bmw-z4-coupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2005\/09\/18\/bmw-z4-coupe\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW Z4 Coupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/bmw_z4_ouvrant.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/smgenglish.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/bmw_z4_ouvrant_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\"  alt=\"Bmw_z4_ouvrant_1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/bmw_z4_ouvrant_1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p> This is BMW\u2019s answer to the Nissan 350Z and Porsche Cayman, a coupe version of the Z4 roadster. That\u2019s what BMW wants us to believe because the collapsing sales of the \u201cflame surfacing\u201d roadster tell a different story. Its sales are so far from the forecasts that it could become uneconomical to produce. From 56,000 sales in 2003, it dropped to 34,000 in 2004 and some insiders say the first six months of this year sales have declined by another 30 percent. Although it is displayed as a concept-car at the Frankfurt Motor Show at the same time as Porsche presents the Cayman, this coupe will go into production next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/bmw_z4_coupe_11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\"  alt=\"Bmw_z4_coupe_1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/bmw_z4_coupe_1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left\" \/><\/a> The bodywork of the Z4 is nearly unchanged &#8211; including the door and the nose &#8211; in order to reduce the development cost of the new model, like Porsche did with the Cayman. More elegant than the roadster, the coupe\u2019s roofline blends into a high boot lid with an integrated spoiler. An interesting quirk: the rear upper body lifts to access the boot. The interior from the roadster is unchanged but is the concept-car blends brown leather with aluminium door inserts and dashboard controls. <\/p>\n<p>The coupe will be powered&nbsp; by the 3.0-litre straight six, 261 bhp and 232 lb ft whereas sources says it could also be powered by the V8, 400 bhp, from the future M3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is BMW\u2019s answer to the Nissan 350Z and Porsche Cayman, a coupe version of the Z4 roadster. That\u2019s what BMW wants us to believe because the collapsing sales of the \u201cflame surfacing\u201d roadster tell a different story. Its sales are so far from the forecasts that it could become uneconomical to produce. From 56,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":1661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bmw"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BMW Z4 Coupe - Petrol Head<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2005\/09\/18\/bmw-z4-coupe\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"BMW Z4 Coupe - Petrol Head\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"This is BMW\u2019s answer to the Nissan 350Z and Porsche Cayman, a coupe version of the Z4 roadster. 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