BMW Z1

A car meet is like a rolling museum as you get to see models spanning decades of history while on the go. Some are rarer than others and owners usually drive them only when such…

BMW actually has a decent stable of convertibles at the moment. There’s the 4 Series Convertible, 8 Series Convertible, M4 Convertible, and the BMW Z4 Roadster. Not too shabby of a lineup, if I’m being…

This upcoming Silverstone Auction is going to be a good one for BMW enthusiasts. There are going to be several interesting and unique BMW models going under the hammer and you get to see all…

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…

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…

Back in the ’80s, BMW was the coolest brand in the world. It was putting out cars that were genuinely shocking the world and pushing boundaries in the best of ways. In the ’80s, BMW…

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 ’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…