New BMW Z4 and Z4 M Roadster Unveiled

Press Release

Design

Even More Fun in a New Outfit

 

Model Updates – Details:

Exterior:

·         Side markers integrated in wheel arches.

·         New rim design.

·         Front end with light contours.

·         Shoulder line extending all the way to the front air dam.

·         Wider air intake scoop with narrow, horizontally integrated foglamps.

·         V-shaped design at the front (sweeping line).

·         Headlights with white direction indicators featured as standard, plus light rings on xenon headlights.

·         Modified kidney grille.

·         Rear end with greater horizontal orientation and an even stronger three-dimensional look

·         Lower border on rear lights modified in design.

·         All-new rear lights with horizontal light conductor rods and modified interior.

·         Second spoiler lip in the rear air dam.

·         Exhaust tailpipes even larger and chrome-plated (on the 3.0si).

·         New metallic colours Monaco Blue, Flamenco Red, Silver Grey, and Deep Green.

 

Interior:

 

·         New, even more sophisticated flair.

·         Air conditioning and fresh air adjusters galvanically treated for even more refined looks.

·         Cloth/leather upholstery in Montego Blue and Black, New England full leather in Saddle Brown.

·         New trim strips in longitudinally ground aluminium and cirrus aluminium as well as wood trim in grained poplar, dark.

·         Range of variants further enhanced by BMW Individual packages.

 

More than any other sports car in the world, the BMW Z4 Roadster em­bodies the typical roadster philosophy, thrilling connoisseurs and enthusi­asts the world over right from the start. Clearly, this is attributable to the car’s superior performance ensured by powerful engines, the excellent chassis and suspension, and a wide range of innovative features. And not least, of course, it is the outstanding design of the BMW Z4 Roadster that makes the car so unique, thrilling, and desirable.

Moderately updated in its design, the BMW Z4 Roadster is entering the next phase in its life clearly refreshed and reinforced – ready to go on defending its position as the only genuine premium roadster in the market.

Z4 Roadster All the Way.

With its modern and expressive design language, the Z4 Roadster em­bodies those proportions so typical of a roadster in absolute perfection, bringing together tradition and a glimpse of the future right from the start through its very looks. The extremely long engine compartment lid, long wheelbase, short body overhangs, and the deep seating position moved far to the rear symbolise the car’s pure driving pleasure. So it is only obvious that the beholder will see and experience the Z4 Roadster with all his – or her – senses.

Striking Interplay of Lines and Surfaces.

Striking lines along the side walls interact with convex and concave surfaces mingling with one another. Full of tension and excitement, light and shade merge into each other, creating a new, fresh impression wherever you look – which gives the beholder a different image of the Z4 Roadster from the side, from every angle, from every perspective.

The side view of the car is characterised by three distinctive lines: First, the un­mistakable shoulder line visually connecting the front wheel arch with the rear wheel segment. Second, the substantially highlighted doorsill line rising up dynamically to the rear. And last but certainly not least, the diagonal line powerfully interacting with the other contours and taking up the angle of the windscreen and ex­tend­ing through the side air intake with its BMW logo.

The side air scoop also emphasises the distance between the front axle and the A-pillar, integrating the side direction indicator beneath the logo.

With its unmistakable interplay of lines and surfaces, the side view of the car clearly stands for pure, modern performance. Indeed, it forms the formal basis for other new design features both front and rear. And a new feature from the side is the side marker integrated in the wheel arch at the same le­vel as the headlights.

New Rim Design.

Available with no less than four new wheel rims, the Z4 Roadster now offers even more customisation options than before. Apart from classic star-spoke rims, the new range of wheels also includes turbine wheel rim design (both rims measuring 8 x 17 inches).

Two different-sized rim options also allow the use of mixed wheels front and rear: one wheel in star-spoke design (8 x 17 inches at the front, 8.5 x 17 inches at the rear), one in ellipsoid-spoke design measuring 8 x 18 inches at the front and 8.5 x 18 inches at the rear.

From the Front: an Even Greater Focus on the Road.

Light contours in the front section taken up at several points and reflected throughout the car re-interpret the design language so typical of the BMW Z4 Roadster and focus the car’s sporting and almost aggressive impression even more strongly on the road. While the joints and seams in the engine compart­ment lid flow to the front as before from the A-pillars in V-shaped design to form the inner edges of the headlights, the shoulder line is now continued in the front air dam. Together with the outer surrounds bordering on the wide air intake scoops, this creates a multiple V-effect visually linking the front end of the car with the road and making the BMW Z4 Roadster and the road itself an even more striking visual unit than before.

The air scoop has become wider and is now defined by firm, taut edges. A further modification is the inclusion of the foglamps in the air intake, the fog­lamps themselves no longer being round, but rather narrow and horizontal in design, thus taking up the shape and looks of the headlights. Together with the elegant black trim strip on the intake grids, the foglamps help to further accentuate the sheer width of the car.

The headlights themselves have also been moderately modified, the direc­tion indicators at the bottom of the headlight units now coming in white and no longer in yellow.

Each Rod in the Kidney Grille is Unique.

The kidney grille so characteristic of every BMW has received particular love and attention: Each and every rod in the kidney grille takes up and repeats the positively and negatively swirled surfaces of the car’s exterior design, making each rod in the grille unique in its structure and configuration. And now being closer to the body itself, the kidney grille is integrated even more firmly in the front graphics of the Z4 Roadster.

The New Rear End – Even More Attractive.

The rear end of the car with its even greater horizontal orientation generates an even wider and lower impression than before. The horizontal line running below the luggage compartment lid merges into the rear edges extending round from the side, the tension points created in this way reflecting the light and re-arranging the rear end completely from one side to the other, in particular accentuating the contours of the wheel arches and the sheer width of the rear end. With the lines extending round the rear at different levels, the rear air dam creates an even greater three-dimensional effect than before, now being perceived even more distinctly as part of the car’s overall sculp­ture.

Another new design feature are the lower edges around the rear lights now forming a soft sweeping line taking up the flowing shape of the spoiler lip. The horizontal light conductor rods on the lights, in turn, form an optical unit with the third brake light, accentuating the width of the rear end above all at night.

While the rear air dam so far featured one spoiler lip at the bottom, the up­dated model now boasts a second lip also acting as a light contour visualis­ing the wide track of the Z4 Roadster. Together, the two visually move down the optical centre of gravity of the rear end, again reinforcing the powerful sporting look of the BMW Z4 Roadster. And last but certainly not least, the exhaust tailpipes are now even larger in diameter and are chrome-plated on the Z4 Roadster 3.0si.

A Genuine Roadster – Also Inside.

The interior of the BMW Z4 Roadster boasts a modern roadster ambience in sporting, purist style. Clear-cut shapes and top-quality materials serve to give the interior its unique nature symbolising the pure pleasure of sports motoring. Shaped almost like little tunnels, the circular instruments bear testimony to the passionate relationship between the sports car and the active driver, the low seating position and the clear horizontal orientation of the dashboard highlighting the special proportions of the Z4.

The lines of the exterior are reflected inside the car by equally tense, taut surfaces, the positively and negatively twisted surfaces on the outside of the car being reflected by the door linings, the door handles and the spokes of the steering wheel. Indeed, even the air conditioning and fresh air adjusters show great attention to detail, being galvanically refined in pearl gloss ruthe­nium and offering a particular highlight in terms of both looks and their sur­face touch. Together with these adjusters, the other controls have also been harmonised even better to one another in their material and looks, with the roll bars being finished in a sophisticated cover of galvanised ruthenium.

Every customer naturally has the option to choose his or her BMW Z4 Road­ster with a wide range of individual features, creating a very personal, highly individualised car in the process: Four upholstery options in leather, glossy leather, cloth, and cloth/leather combined, ten exterior and 12 interior col­ours, as well as five trim variants offer all kinds of individual combinations.

New Design Features.

New paintwork in Monaco Blue metallic harmonising perfectly with cloth/ leath­er upholstery in Black or new Montego Blue offers an extremely sporting and dynamic touch. The purist character of the BMW Z4 Roadster is further underlined by the new combination of Silver Grey metallic outside and Black inside. The classic character of a roadster is finally highlighted by the combination of Deep Green metallic on the exterior and Saddle Brown inside the car.

The choice of five trim strip options made of wood and aluminium includes two aluminium strips, one of which has been updated and now comes with a fine, light longitudinally ground surface, the other with a classic, rough dia­mond look. Both of these trim options ensure a particularly sporting and tech­nical ambience.

The former wood trim in light gloss grained poplar is now joined by dark grained poplar trim creating an elegant ouch within the interior.