Z4 Design

Huz-Z · 12-17-2020, 08:44 AM

I found this over on the UK forum:

garz747 · 12-17-2020, 09:07 AM

Thanks for that. The design has stood the test of time and still looks amazing. Some of his preliminary sketches were even nicer!

racerbruce · 12-17-2020, 09:13 AM

This is great - thank you for posting this.

I love Ander's wild hand gestures....this contributes to the design

Sterling Roadster · 12-17-2020, 10:10 AM

I will forever be yearning for that late 90s and early 2000s optimism in design and everything else.

KevinC · 12-17-2020, 12:11 PM

Hadn't seen that yet, very cool! Here's a look at the factory in 2003... "Bubba Makes Wheels" as they call it down there...

Piper1 · 12-17-2020, 08:05 PM

National Geographic seems to no longer have it on their site but here's their teaser on youtube.
I had posted the full 50 minute video link a long time ago on the z4-forum but clicking it now it's a dead link on their site

Huz-Z · 12-17-2020, 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Piper1

National Geographic seems to no longer have it on their site but here's their teaser on youtube.
I had posted the full 50 minute video link a long time ago on the z4-forum but clicking it now it's a dead link on their site

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x490y36

I think that’s it.

. Note the prominent featuring of a Montego Blue 3.0si.

TRiCC · 12-17-2020, 10:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Huz-Z

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x490y36

I think that’s it.

. Note the prominent featuring of a Montego Blue 3.0si.

Very cool! Enjoyed the watch!

couchflyer · 12-17-2020, 10:47 PM

I have one of Warming's Z4 colored drawing prints on my wall. I love it.

Piper1 · 12-18-2020, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Huz-Z

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x490y36

I think that’s it.

. Note the prominent featuring of a Montego Blue 3.0si.

Yep that's the one

KevinC · 12-18-2020, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by couchflyer

I have one of Warming's Z4 colored drawing prints on my wall. I love it.

This one? That was sent to new owners back in the day?

couchflyer · 12-21-2020, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by KevinC

This one? That was sent to new owners back in the day?

Nope, this one:

wdb · 12-25-2020, 08:27 PM

Ugh those goofy giant wheels. Fantasy then, reality now which is worse. Ride quality loses potholes win.

Thanks for all the video links!

racerbruce · 12-25-2020, 10:06 PM

This is rich!!!! And the artist's conceptions....so incredible,

thrak410 · 12-28-2020, 08:32 PM

I can't believe I never noticed the "Z" in the bodywork ... wow!!

Texaz3 · 12-28-2020, 11:17 PM

Terrific!

Efthreeoh · 01-02-2021, 10:51 AM

So back when the E85 was introduced, I had a very close friend "Jack" (still do), car geek like me, who worked at Oracle. If you remember back in the early 2000's Oracle and BMW teamed up for the America's Cup yacht race. So my buddy sent me a reprised copy of an internal Oracle email from the OracleMan himself, Larry Ellison. The email was about the just-then released E85 and how such a design epiphany it was. Jack and I thought different. I still think the ducktail on the rear deck looks like ass (no offense to any E85 owners). And I wasn't a fan of the front end nor the Frankenstein blinker/Roundels on the fenders. (Keep in mind I think the E86 looks fantastic and I own one...).

I quipped back to Jack that the E85 design brought back memories of when the teachers at school would put down the vomit-cat litter when a kid threw up in grade school. Jack and I attended the same school.

Well unbeknown to me, the email I replied to was the ACTUAL original email from Ellison; Jack had sent me the original email as an attachment to his email and I did not realize it. I opened the attachment and replied to Ellison's email when I thought I was replying to just Jack. Not 15 minutes after sending my reply to, ahem, "Larry E.", my phone rings; it was Oracle IT Security asking who I knew at Oracle who sent me the "for internal distribution only" company-wide email from the CEO. OH HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!! Man, did I not have nice thinks written about Oracle and BMW and the America Cup team-up. HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!! The Oracle folks threatened to get my company's president involved if I didn't fess up; I figured they knew anyway, and maybe Jack was effing with me...

So I called Jack ASAP. OH HOLY SHITTTTT!!!!!!!!!! he wasn't messing with me. Not a good day for our friendship needless to say.

Jack and I laugh about it now some 20 years post the event. I was seriously puckered that day.

Thought I'd share.

racerbruce · 01-02-2021, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Efthreeoh

So back when the E85 was introduced, I had a very close friend "Jack" (still do), car geek like me, who worked at Oracle. If you remember back in the early 2000's Oracle and BMW teamed up for the America's Cup yacht race. So my buddy sent me a reprised copy of an internal Oracle email from the OracleMan himself, Larry Ellison. The email was about the just-then released E85 and how such a design epiphany it was. Jack and I thought different. I still think the ducktail on the rear deck looks like ass (no offense to any E85 owners). And I wasn't a fan of the front end nor the Frankenstein blinker/Roundels on the fenders. (Keep in mind I think the E86 looks fantastic and I own one...).

I quipped back to Jack that the E85 design brought back memories of when the teachers at school would put down the vomit-cat litter when a kid threw up in grade school. Jack and I attended the same school.

Well unbeknown to me, the email I replied to was the ACTUAL original email from Ellison; Jack had sent me the original email as an attachment to his email and I did not realize it. I opened the attachment and replied to Ellison's email when I thought I was replying to just Jack. Not 15 minutes after sending my reply to, ahem, "Larry E.", my phone rings; it was Oracle IT Security asking who I knew at Oracle who sent me the "for internal distribution only" company-wide email from the CEO. OH HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!! Man, did I not have nice thinks written about Oracle and BMW and the America Cup team-up. HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!! The Oracle folks threatened to get my company's president involved if I didn't fess up; I figured they knew anyway, and maybe Jack was effing with me...

So I called Jack ASAP. OH HOLY SHITTTTT!!!!!!!!!! he wasn't messing with me. Not a good day for our friendship needless to say.

Jack and I laugh about it now some 20 years post the event. I was seriously puckered that day.

Thought I'd share.

Wowie!
This is CRAZY....you'll never forget this one!!!!

Huz-Z · 01-04-2021, 07:05 AM

Yikes!! The E85 gods must have been angered by you irreverence LOL!!

Glad it worked for ya though!

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Efthreeoh General 17309 Rep 18,733 Posts Drives: The E90 + Z4 Coupe & Z3 R'ster Join Date: May 2012 Location: Virginia iTrader: (0)	So back when the E85 was introduced, I had a very close friend "Jack" (still do), car geek like me, who worked at Oracle. If you remember back in the early 2000's Oracle and BMW teamed up for the America's Cup yacht race. So my buddy sent me a reprised copy of an internal Oracle email from the OracleMan himself, Larry Ellison. The email was about the just-then released E85 and how such a design epiphany it was. Jack and I thought different. I still think the ducktail on the rear deck looks like ass (no offense to any E85 owners). And I wasn't a fan of the front end nor the Frankenstein blinker/Roundels on the fenders. (Keep in mind I think the E86 looks fantastic and I own one...). I quipped back to Jack that the E85 design brought back memories of when the teachers at school would put down the vomit-cat litter when a kid threw up in grade school. Jack and I attended the same school. Well unbeknown to me, the email I replied to was the ACTUAL original email from Ellison; Jack had sent me the original email as an attachment to his email and I did not realize it. I opened the attachment and replied to Ellison's email when I thought I was replying to just Jack. Not 15 minutes after sending my reply to, ahem, "Larry E.", my phone rings; it was Oracle IT Security asking who I knew at Oracle who sent me the "for internal distribution only" company-wide email from the CEO. OH HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!! Man, did I not have nice thinks written about Oracle and BMW and the America Cup team-up. HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!! The Oracle folks threatened to get my company's president involved if I didn't fess up; I figured they knew anyway, and maybe Jack was effing with me... So I called Jack ASAP. OH HOLY SHITTTTT!!!!!!!!!! he wasn't messing with me. Not a good day for our friendship needless to say. Jack and I laugh about it now some 20 years post the event. I was seriously puckered that day. Thought I'd share. __________________ A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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