A Green Light For The New BMW Z4

The new BMW Z4 has a green light for serial production and now it has tests at the test center in Miramas, in the south of France. The old Z4 is out of production in 2016 and it’s time to see a new BMW’s roadster. I can’t stand to test the new BMW Z4!

The BMW Z4 at the Miramas test center, south France.

BMW describes the new BMW Z4 in this way: Long bonnet, short overhangs, low center of gravity and soft top. However, the new Z4 is heavily covered in order to hide the details of its design until the official launch.    

Trials at the Autodrome de Miramas are focusing on fine-tuning of all drive and suspension systems – the basis for the sporty driving experience offered by the new BMW Z4. The BMW Z4 M40i will be the most intensive form of the new roadster. The new Z4 comes with:

·         a new, “extremely powerful” in-line 6-cylnder engine;

·         a lowered sports suspension with electronically controlled dampers;

·         a newly developed front axle;

·         M light alloy wheels with mixed tyres;

·         an M sports brake system;

·         an electronically controlled lock in the rear axle differential;

All of these features create the BMW M Performance model settings. The new BMW Z4 has to be a whole new benchmark for driving pleasure in the roadster segment. 

The new BMW Z4 will be equipped with a new, “extremely powerful” inline 6-cylinder engine.

Quotes:

"The vehicle concept of the new BMW Z4 is geared consistently towards agility and driving dynamics," explains Jos van As, Head of Application Suspension. "The high level of body stiffness and the very rigid suspension attachment provide the perfect basis for a set-up that guarantees the performance qualities of a genuine sports car in terms of steering precision as well as longitudinal and transverse acceleration."

The Miramas test center is the best place for detailed analysis and optimization of the new BMW Z4’s acceleration, steering and brake response.

The Miramas test center is chosen because it responds to all needs of the new BMW Z4 to demonstrate its driving dynamics potential. Moreover, BMW has been using this test center for more than 30 years to test its new models. The Miramas has everything that’s need it for the final tests before the new Z4 hit the production line: a long asphalt oval and a motorway ring road for high-speed tests as well as slalom, serpentine and circular tracks and a number of handling courses and circuits featuring highly diverse types of surface. All of these tracks are used for detailed analysis and optimization of the new BMW Z4’s acceleration, steering and brake response. BMW gives an example: “the final form of the adaptive M suspension as it interacts with the rear axle limited-slip differential is developed on a circuit that is also used for testing purposes by BMW Motorsport.”

The expectations are that the new BMW Z4 will offer tangible increase in sporty flair. The goals of the new Z4 is also to offer an effective enhancement in terms of agile handling, spontaneity and precision when changing direction and accelerating in dynamic style out of bends – without losing out in the comfort disciplines.   

Does the new BMW Z4 will be available with hard top?!