ChawenHalo said:
Welcome, very cool car. How is it after the M3 (I hesitated a lot and wish I did both)?
Agreed on spot delete, but I would get rid of that awful stubby arial
a bunch of people have asked me the same question. here were my original thoughts when i bought the car.
the ZCP was my first experience with the S54. i fell in love with the motor and aside from the occasional jerky 1-2nd shift sans cdv mod, it was the best tranny (6MT) motor feel i've ever experienced.
God's engine aside, everything else about the ZCP was perfect and i would have kept it if it weren't for other financial obligations last year. you can't argue with rear seats and enough room to throw my snowboard and gear in and drive up to the mountain in the winter. steering feel was phenomenal, but got a little iffy with turn in on bumpy roads. i'll blame that on the 19" ZCP's. and most of you know it's a tail happy car with DSC off and very maneuverable. i've showed up at drift days where everybody around me is in a 240 looking at me like lolwut.
the z4mc. jeebus this thing is gorgeous in coupe form and pictures don't do it justice for the road presence it has in person. on the drive back from seattle i had a bunch of people ask me wtf it even was while i was gassing up. i've only had it for a week and on a couple occasions noticed from a distance people taking pics with their camera phones. enough about looks -everyone knows it looks wonderfully odd.
i don't plan on getting pregnant and am single for the foreseeable future, so the lack of a back seat doesn't bother me. the allotted trunk space is enough for me, but i'll be kicking myself come winter when i'll have to find other means to make it up to the mountain to board.
i'm not sure if it's because i was numbed by the lack luster ownership experience with an audi a5, or my ears are telling the truth... but yea this motor screams and has a bolder note than i remember in the ZCP. i never made up my mind about rasp when i had the ZCP. the z4mc has no rasp and fuk it's a beautiful sound - albeit tamed in stock form. (ssrace or eldiablo ...can't decide). it's lighter and butt dyno is proud to report it feels quicker in every way. there's something to be said about the rigidity you immediately feel in this car. (something along the lines of 32000nm torsional rigidity which is pretty outrageous). all that makes for chub inducing handling.
I LOVE THE STEERING WHEEL. fat steering wheel and significantly more connected feel to the road than with the zcp - again it could have been the 19's and terribad pennsylvania roads. 18"s and dunlop direzzas = love and the latter being the reason i'm not drifting yet. i never felt bad tearing up p-zero's down to the belts. i love the direzzas too much, so until i'm down to 2/32nds, there will be no drifting.
apparently i have the premium carver stereo option. even with dsp settings tweaked, i hate the sound. let's see...cup holders are much more convenient than the center console bs in the ZCP which gets in the way of shifting. slight issue most people would have with the car is visibility. you won't find much rear visibility so you have to make the most of side/rear view mirrors and what little rear/quarter view there is. nbd. the bonnet is long and takes some getting used to.
that's about it. i'll say that this love affair would never have come to pass if there was no s54 up front.
cheers
i've already managed to break both the cup holders. my dad broke the passenger side cupholder in my first week of ownership. valet broke the driver's side this past weekend. (they're assuming the cost - $51)
