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      12-15-2014, 05:25 PM   #133
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Since this is the Z3, does this mean if we saw inside that the seats would be a lot lower to the ground? Don't you sit really low and between axles in a Z car vs a sedan/coupe where you sit above (so there is room for a backseat)?
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      12-15-2014, 06:02 PM   #134
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"The Z4 becomes the Z5
And since 5>4 that'll be the justification for an $80k+ Z5 while the Z3 moves into the current Z4's $60k+ range for a loaded model?

I genuinely hope you guys price it competitively with not just roadsters but other performance toys because you can get a HELL of a lot of car today for less than a Z4, and the market for the Z4 shows this, so please learn from this and price accordingly.

Stingray/Boxster/Cayman is a lot more attractive than a current Z4, hope you guys realize this for the upcoming Z cars.
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      12-15-2014, 06:04 PM   #135
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Its not a BMW factory mule; more likely a tuner car with a new body structure.
Seriously? Seriously?
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      12-15-2014, 06:26 PM   #136
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Is that car slightly wider too?
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I wonder how many people will keep posting wrong guesses before they realize that Scott26 told us what it is on page 5. (New Z3)
Or page 3 for those of us who have our settings at 50 posts/page
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      12-15-2014, 06:30 PM   #138
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Vision ConnectedDrive and 328 Homage concepts are the template for the visuals.
Using the Hommage concept as a design template sounds great!
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The plot thickens.
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Oh Snap!!!! Carbon hood, Carbon roof, Carbon trunk........(even though it looks ugly being chopped) M2!! WHERE DO I SIGN
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      12-15-2014, 07:00 PM   #142
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those car will run on actual f20 platform?
No it is not the F22 Chassis underneath which is why the body is shortened.
For more clues let us say that Winter is coming...
But this prototype also shows possibilities for the M2.
AWD? Or did I read that wrongly?
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      12-15-2014, 07:02 PM   #143
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I posted this long ago. There is another article I am still looking for.

"The Z4 becomes the Z5 and will share with a Toyota as will a Z3 Both are RWD.
The engineering schematics for the Carbon intensive architecture is impressive. You are going to see so much for so little with the combined force of BMW and Toyota using all their resources available.

BMW wants to re-invent its Z series sports cars and make them as cutting edge and influential as the BMWi models by visual appearance and state of the art engineering to highlight a new BMW philosophy for sports cars.

Vision ConnectedDrive and 328 Homage concepts are the template for the visuals. Plans also include a slightly massaged three cylinder entirely unique and exclusive in the Z3 Mille Miglia mimicking the classic 328 to provide excellent dynamics using lightweight materials."
Yes! I have been saying that using design of the 328 Homage concept on the Toyota FT1 template, would look fantastic! I like the idea of a vertical grill on the Z cars too, I think its time to evolve from the current wide horizontal kidney grills in BMW design...

These front ends on all the Z cars would be fantastic!
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"The Z4 becomes the Z5
And since 5>4 that'll be the justification for an $80k+ Z5 while the Z3 moves into the current Z4's $60k+ range for a loaded model?

I genuinely hope you guys price it competitively with not just roadsters but other performance toys because you can get a HELL of a lot of car today for less than a Z4, and the market for the Z4 shows this, so please learn from this and price accordingly.

Stingray/Boxster/Cayman is a lot more attractive than a current Z4, hope you guys realize this for the upcoming Z cars.
+1

Always loved the current Z, but god it is prohibitively expensive.
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      12-15-2014, 07:26 PM   #145
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LOVE THIS! I wanna know the weight. Looks much sportier than the 2.
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      12-15-2014, 07:43 PM   #146
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By my estimation.....

Bonnet is off the M235i Racing... probably the boot lid too.

Roof is M2 production roof.

But, totally a Z3 mule, since that what SCOTT had said. Just happens to use bits already out there.
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      12-15-2014, 07:48 PM   #147
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Laughing at how wrong you were after all those posts.
LOL

So am I haha
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      12-15-2014, 08:24 PM   #148
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      12-15-2014, 08:36 PM   #149
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The guy who photo shopped the car forgot the front plate. When was the last time you saw a test car in Germany not have front and rear plates. Germans are pretty strict about their rules and no one drives around with just a rear plate. I don't even see screw holes in the front bumper.
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      12-15-2014, 09:02 PM   #150
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How does Z3 even make sense from a nomenclature standpoint being that BMW now wants every car with 2 doors or a coupe roofline to have an even number. This sounds incredibly arbitrary.
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      12-15-2014, 09:13 PM   #151
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edit - everything I've asked has already been asked (and hypothesized) in previous posts.

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      12-15-2014, 09:48 PM   #152
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      12-15-2014, 10:04 PM   #153
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just when i thought the 2-series couldn't look any more bulbous and terrible..they shortened the wheel base, yanked down the roof...and made it look like a freakshow of a mule! ICK.

my wife will be very pleased there is a 'new Z3' coming though.....she has always wanted a Z3. I really hope it has cues from the 328 Hommage as stated; that car was sensationally cool.
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