The BMW Z1 wrote history back when it was introduced for a number of reasons. Even though its name would suggest looking towards the future (the Z stood for Zukunft — “Future” in German), some…
The BMW Z1 was a revolutionary car when it first came out. It wasn’t only because it started a naming convention that lives to this day but also because it had some very clever tricks…
One of the more underappreciated cars of its era was the E85 BMW Z4 M Roadster. It was considered good but not great in its day by most publications, simply because of cars like the…
Nico DeMattia covered the story of the BMW Z1’s doors in a recent article on BMWBLOG. Reading that reminded me that the newly formed BMW Technik, in 1985, was the origin of the Z1. As…
The BMW Z1 is one of the more important cars the Germans ever made. While at first it may be dismissed by some as a crazy, one-off project, the Z1 was much more than that….
The Z models have been part of the BMW line-up for about 30 years now. The first one has an appropriate name too, the Z1. The Z stands for Zukunft which means ‘future’ in BMW’s…
The history of the BMW Z models began with one simple and very interesting concept unveiled in the 1980s, a concept which eventually became the BMW Z1. That’s how an entirely new chapter began for…
The complete list of contenders for the European Car Of The Year (European COTY 2020) award has been recently announced. The Bavarian automaker completes with a forceful squad of four models: the new 1 Series,…
The ’80s were odd. It was a decade filled with over-sized clothing, popped collars, hilariously corny and awesome music and, of course, some of the most over-styled, overly-ambitious cars of all time. One of those…
The 1989-1991 BMW Z1 is the origin of the modern-day BMW small-roadster family that includes the Z3 and Z4 models. This particular model belongs to BMW Classic in Munich and was recently brought out to…
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