Hello from France

[Joseph]

Hello to everyone.

My name is Joseph and i live in France. I hope to be a Z4C owner by the end of this year.
So have joined up to learn all about them.

I come from the world of Fiat coupes(dont laugh) and currently own 3. They are all 20VT's.
A red lhd Sunday car on 100,000klm. A wine red 20vt track prepaired coupe running about 350hp.

And a silver 20vt in bits/project/parts car.

The Z4 will possibly replace my red Sunday car allthough it will be a wrench to sell it.

I still have not bagged a ride in a Z4 yet so i realise i have much to learn about them.

So i am now looking forward to read up on the subject.

 

[Grumpyowl]

Bonjour Joseph, welcome.

Nothing wrong with Fiats both my Daughters currently run them and my wife has previously.
Not specials like yours though, theirs are straight out of the box.

Good luck with your search, there is plenty of information and helpful people on here.

 

[ZermattV]

Another great Bangle design... from French Wikipedia ..

il est employé par la marque Fiat à Turin. L’année 1986 est marquante pour lui avec son mariage et son changement de carrière. Occupant un poste de designer extérieur, il concurrence les grands noms qui faisaient la loi au sein de Fiat tels que Pininfarina, Bertone ou Giugiaro. Ainsi les Fiat 1993, Barchetta, Bravo, Brava et la magnifique Coupé sont issues de son travail. Après 6 ans de bons et loyaux services, il est appelé par BMW en 1992 afin de prendre la tête du design au sein de la marque BMW.

Arrivé depuis peu, il supervise la sortie de la série 3 (E36) ainsi que du Z8. La griffe « Bangle » appelée « flame surfacing » est surtout visible sur le X5 et le Z3 qui représentent le début de l’ère de Chris Bangle. La direction de BMW lui demandant de révolutionner le style BMW pour pouvoir concurrencer Audi et Mercedes, il s’attaque directement au vaisseau amiral de la marque, la série 7. Ayant un style osé et novateur pour l’époque, elle ne trouve pas son public auprès des puristes de la marque. Mais ce semi-échec commercial ne l’empêche pas de faire de sa manière de voir l’automobile une vraie succès story au sein de BMW. Il signe ainsi les Z4, séries 3, 5 et 6. BMW développant son groupe, Bangle est nommé chef du design du groupe, supervisant les marques BMW, Mini et Rolls-Royce.


Bienvenue

 

[si-forks]

Hello and welcome to the forum

 

[Big Red Cat]

Bienvenue, which part of France do you live in? Wish I'd had my Z4 when I lived in France - great roads & less traffic

 

[monkadill]

:worthless:

 

[Joseph]

Here you go.[ATTACH=full]213951[/ATTACH]

 

[Jollyjoiner]

Hello and welcome

 

[paulgs1000]

Salut Joseph, bienvenu,

J'aime bien les photo, surtout de la belle Fiat rouge de dimanche.

Je pense que la Z Coupe vous ira tres bien; il ya beaucoup de guides qui sont utiles, cherchez le Forum.

 

[metal licker]

Hi Joseph welcome to the forum

 

[Grumpyowl]

Left hand drive and UK number plate, tell us more Joseph ?

 

[BMWZ4MC]

Welcome, your track car looks/sounds great fun

Left hand drive and UK number plate, tell us more Joseph ?

Right hand drive and French number plate, tell us more Joseph ?

 

[RickRob]

Hi and welcome.

In the 8 months + you have set as your target for Zed ownership you should have done a lot of homework.

Good luck with the search and don't be shy to post pics!

 

[WLH]

Joseph, welcome to the forum...

 

[Joseph]

Thanks for the nice welcome folks. I think i will enjoy a Z and a good forum makes the owning alot happier and smoother.

The sunday lhd coupe is has now been on french plates for a week. I fell upon the coupe on autotrader last year. It turns out that the english owner ordered in from a uk gararage,then took it to live in France.
He then registered there.

He moved back to the uk some years later and put it back on uk plates.

In the paperwork was the old french log book. Resulting in not having to pay for a COC when getting back on French plates. Which has instantly upped its value by about 30%!

Track coupe was a uk car i then registered in France.
Not legal on the road now due to Harness and cage fitting.