This Might Just Be The 2019 BMW Z4
With all the Supra-related rumours, leaks and teasing comments from Toyota VIPs flooding the Internet recently, it’s about time we talked about the car’s platform mate, isn’t it? We’re referring to the new BMW Z4 - which has been jointly developed with the Japanese sports car - and as luck would have it, we have a pretty major update to bring you today.
The car isn’t supposed to be revealed until the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance later this month, but thanks to these leaked images posted on Instagram by user @liucunyi, we get to take a look at the car in M40i guise from the front, side and rear.
As expected, it shares much of its styling with the Z4 concept revealed at the Pebble Beach show last year, with one notable retained feature being particularly imposing kidney grilles. Other details have been toned down though - the headlights are much larger, for instance, and predictably, the teeny, tiny wing mirrors have been dropped for a bigger, regulation-friendly pair.
Like the top-spec Supra, the M40i version of the Z4 is expected to be powered by a ‘B58’ twin-scroll turbocharged inline-six producing at least 335bhp. There’ll be an entry-level four-cylinder model, too.
What do you think of the new Z4? Let us know in the comments.
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Comments
It looks a bit…..thicc
T H I C C
Looks a bit fiat 124
TTHHIICC
Looks like an SLK lol
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Hello Fiat 124s fat brother, the front is looking exactly like the FCA product.
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The concept looks way better imo!
It looks like, it gets excited very quickly
I’m not a huge fan of BMW’s design language, but this one looks pretty good. They could have gone with a small kidney grille though.
I was sort of hoping they’d give it a classic BMW shark nose, though I doubt that that would comply with pedestrian safety regulations.
I share your opinion with the shark nose.
They could’ve made it a bit like the latest Mustang, which catches the theme a bit. When you look at it at a certain angle it looks like it has the narrow shark nose look.
I’ll just throw a spanner into the works and say I do not like the way it looks…. at all… prefer the old one with the folding metal roof.
Not saying it looks bad or anything (the massive kidneys might be a little over the top)…but for me it´s just by far not as sexy and as timeless as the E89 Z4
The front reminds me of a Fiat 124 spider and the back reminds a bit
of an SLS
It looks like… somebody is gonna loose his job
These Hashtags make me cringe
That’s why we avoid Twitter people at all costs