Don Palmers Press Review on the Z4MC

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A nice review. And all this talk about its drifting capabilities has got me even more excited about collecting the car on Saturday

(Sorry if its a repost)

http://www.donpalmer.co.uk/press/7daysz4m.htm
 
Great post so thanks for sharing. Makes me want to grab my keys now and go out for a midnight drift run in mine :D
 
inkey$ said:
Great post so thanks for sharing. Makes me want to grab my keys now and go out for a midnight drift run in mine :D
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I know!! And has just about ruined any chance of me getting to sleep at a decent hour now (see recent excited / can't sleep / picking up car thread :roll: )
 
Interesting. Nice enthusiastic review. But......

Who wrote it?

Guy got a lot of things wrong. "carbon airbox" "s14 engine" "e90 M5 v10"
????

:headbang:
 
wantanM said:
Interesting. Nice enthusiastic review. But......

Who wrote it?

Guy got a lot of things wrong. "carbon airbox" "s14 engine" "e90 M5 v10"
????

:headbang:
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You're reading it wrong, but he's also made some mistakes.

His sentence is saying he loves ///Ms - including the carbon air-boxed CSL and M5s V10, not that the Z4M has them!
Phil Royle said:
Like many petrolheads, I’ve been an M-Power BMW fan for many a year: A hard charging carbon-air-boxed E46 M3 CSL straight-six sounds almost too good to be true, as does the E90 M5’s mega five-litre V10, once spinning at sufficient revs.
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The M5 with the V10 is actually the e60 and the engine in the Z4M is an s54.
 
mmm-five said:
wantanM said:
Interesting. Nice enthusiastic review. But......

Who wrote it?

Guy got a lot of things wrong. "carbon airbox" "s14 engine" "e90 M5 v10"
????

:headbang:
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You're reading it wrong, but he's also made some mistakes.

His sentence is saying he loves ///Ms - including the carbon air-boxed CSL and M5s V10, not that the Z4M has them!
Phil Royle said:
Like many petrolheads, I’ve been an M-Power BMW fan for many a year: A hard charging carbon-air-boxed E46 M3 CSL straight-six sounds almost too good to be true, as does the E90 M5’s mega five-litre V10, once spinning at sufficient revs.
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The M5 with the V10 is actually the e60 and the engine in the Z4M is an s54.
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Think I'm reading it right. Refers to the engine by designation s14 incorrectly.
Refers to an "e90 m5 v10" incorrectly.

And references the z4m having a carbon air box further down in the article

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The cabin feel and quality, the notchy yet direct gear shift, the ride quality, the look over the long nose, the feeling of sitting supercar low and then the magic potential of going from just chilling with that quite big six humming away, to hitting the Sport throttle map, burying the loud pedal and going a bit mental – relishing all 343bhp let rip through that carbon airbox, to the LSD-equipped rear wheels. Beautiful.
 
wantanM said:
The cabin feel and quality, the notchy yet direct gear shift, the ride quality, the look over the long nose, the feeling of sitting supercar low and then the magic potential of going from just chilling with that quite big six humming away, to hitting the Sport throttle map, burying the loud pedal and going a bit mental – relishing all 343bhp let rip through that carbon airbox, to the LSD-equipped rear wheels. Beautiful.
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We'll let him off the carbon airbox part and the bit about 343BHP (it's actually 338)..the rest of that paragraph was bang on ! :driving: :thumbsup:
 
Very nicely sums up what owning a Z4M is all about.

And no I'm not going to make any snide comment about the Z4MR being even better! :)
 
He may have some of the technical details wrong, but the review does a good job conveying the excitement and passion a zed owner feels when switching on the ignition! Thanks for posting the article. :thumbsup:
 
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