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05-29-2020, 10:34 AM | #1 |
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Savagegeese reviews the Z4MC
My favorite YouTube reviewer takes on the Z4MC.. this is fun...
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05-29-2020, 11:22 AM | #2 |
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I just watched it and now I really miss my Z4M.
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Literally drove my E90 before watching this. Great review, it highlights everything we cherish about this era of BMW. It saddens me that it will never return. We are relegated to maintaining these old cars.
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By far the most accurate and honest review on the M coupe Ive ever seen. Believe me I watched them all before I pulled the trigger three years ago.. My car is also Sapphire but Imola interior, carbon leather and luckily no nav. Thanks for posting!
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There were no his usual sarcasm in this video at all. And he was talking and driving the car himself while he offloaded these tasks to Jack in most other reviews. PS: Turbowski was mentioning Z4M few years ago in some of their FRS videos saying how good these cars were and I've been waiting for Savagegeese to review it since then. It took so long... Last edited by vt100; 05-31-2020 at 02:40 AM.. |
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I love my 993 but this does make me miss the Z4MC. One of my favourite cars ever and I'd still have it if not for the move to the Porsche. Great review, thanks for posting.
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05-30-2020, 10:03 AM | #9 |
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I have to laugh at the comment of the owner wanting to quickly "move up" to P Car ownership. I say this as far from biased.....I'm a longtime PCA member and only very recently sold my 997 (still have a Cayenne S).
My Z4MC equals my driving enjoyment to my 997 step for step. I truly mean that and really never thought I would say that, because I consider myself "a Porsche guy" much more than a BMW guy. The car is just that good. The M96/97 engines in the 996/7 cars is good but it's not special, and is actually pretty maligned and massively overshadowed by the Metzger cars. Obviously not so in the ZM's where you have a jewel of an engine. Also, butt dyno to butt dyno the 997 didn't feel significantly faster and that car had a lot of FVD products to help. That's not to say I didn't love my 997, it was fantastic, and I could bring my wife and my 5 year old along. But the Z4MC is easily one of my fav cars ever and I've owned many in the $30-65k range. Seeing these cars in the mid $20k's to low $30's, I think it's now one of the best sports car bargains you can get.....if you like driving and not bench racing. |
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I've come from turbo cars previously and the older I get the less I care about outright power and have a preference towards NA cars at this point. Though I continue to casually look at 996 turbo cars as a killer year'round daily. |
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Good video overall, B-roll at the beginning was great, they really stepped it up.
I do agree on a few things, such as the car being a little bit too quiet in bone stock form. As an owner of both the E92 M3 and Z4MR, I don't quite understand his complaints about the M3. I don't think it was ever designed to be a sports car, nor does it pretend to be one. But it's a car you could easily use every single day. The Z4M, on the other hand, was designed as a sports car. That's why it's caught me so off guard when I bought my Roadster. I was really just looking for something with a drop top, and try out the S54. Never thought it would be so good, especially for under $20k. Unfortunately, we live in a day where cars have to do everything. They have to be fast, engaging, good looking, quiet, fuel efficient, safe, high tech and be fast on the Nurburgring all at the same time. Quote:
I know you've got to pay to play, but would I really have 5x more fun in a GT3 than my Z4M Roadster on a mountain road? I'm not so sure.
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He's not wrong.
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For another Porsches, I cannot speak of 997 or newer cars but I drove 996 and 987 right before trying Z for the first time. They are really nice cars but they don't even come close to Z. Surely 996 will be faster in track (assuming the same driver) but emotion-wise - nope, I didn't experience anything close enough to what I felt in Z. |
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I just sold a pretty rare Daytona Violet with Dove Vaders E36 M3. Such a cool car (sold it to a good friend which is good and bad....because I see it all the time....and it hurts). I OFTEN debate the GT3 purchase. Like, weekly. Like a poster above said, I don't think I would drive one so freely and that's what I love about my Z and cheaper sports cars like this. Even my Exige S gets treated way too "carefully" and that's only a $50k car. This is the sweet spot for me and I get more actual driving enjoyment from my Z than I do most (all?) others I've owned. I'll stop gushing.... |
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I bought my current (2nd) Z4MC from a guy in metro Philly who was selling it to make room for a GT3. He was clearly reluctant to sell, calling the Z4MC one of his all-time favorite cars. He advertised it for sale here at zpost - then nowhere else, and when I found it, the ad was 3 weeks old and buried 3 pages deep. After getting the thing home and going through all the service records more closely than when I closed the deal, I come to figure out he'd only driven it about 500 miles in a year and a half of ownership.
Speaking of GT3's, I had a gent approach me at a gas station a while back, complimenting my car and asking a few questions about it, though he clearly knew the car and some basic info about their history. After he walked away I looked back to see what he was driving - a GT3. Took it as a high compliment that he approached me to talk about the Z.
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