Press Car - £245.00 p. 12m Roadtax

[flimper]

Taken from another forum...

LE89000 was the first Z4 M roadster built, on 11/29/2004. LE89999 was built on 4/25/2006. So they built 1000 LE M roadsters during that period, from November 2004 to April 2006. Very few cars were made until February 2006, when volume production began. So almost all of the LE cars
were made between February and April 2006. At that point they switched to LY cars, starting with LY52000 on 4/26/2006. The remainder of the M roadsters were LY cars, ending with LY54041 on August 16, 2008. And then that was the end of the road for the US built Z4.

 

[Andy]

Interesting, but it can't be right, I'm LD0026 and I'm 1/3/06, not sure of the build date tho...

 

[Z4//MMY]

Cars reg'd before 23 March 2006 get the lower rate

Mine was registered on the 25th of MARCH 2006

 

[mikedav]

I still find it interesting they used a RHD UK spec car as a US press car! Nice bit of history for yours.

 

[Andy]

If only I had pictures of it out there.

Still, the more of these little bonuses turn up, the more likely this thing will end up under a dust sheet in a barn when I'm old and grey

 

[mikedav]

If only I had pictures of it out there.

Still, the more of these little bonuses turn up, the more likely this thing will end up under a dust sheet in a barn when I'm old and grey

Could it be....?

This is especially true in the low-speed, Highway-Patrolled US where I'm driving BMW's latest M-car. We're there because the Z4, and the X5, are made in Spartanburg, South Carolina, so we're trying the cars in their home surroundings before they are shipped over to the UK to join BMW's demonstrator fleet. So we're in right-hand drive cars in the US, and strange looks are heading our way.

 

[Andy]

Good find... I have an email from the BMW Press guy saying they had US Plates n them at the time.. I guess they would have been swapped for the pictures above, but thats not my original Reg.. Might print that & add it to the history tho