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If you are looking for a “collectible” G29 Z4, this is gonna be it…maybe. Without getting the S58 engine much of these changes are fairly minor normal production changes ie: suspension tweaks.
Question will be how having the manual with a regular BMW motor puts this into unique status on par with true M cars. There is internet hype surrounding the car as a future classic, only time will tell. |
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Forty years from now I expect there will be a few Gen X bidding on the few surviving Hellcats or Z06 Corvettes. There might be a few looking at Z4s but considering the age of the current buyer, it's probably not even on their radar. The MT will demand a premium over the auto (just look at BMW sales on BaT), but for the first 10-15 years it will be just another used car. If you want to invest in a car, you need to buy it at the bottom of the depreciation curve. That should be in the late 2030s for the MT. Z4s will be pretty rare, but not super rare. They've sold a bit over 11K through 2023. Based on the trends, they might sell another 4-5k before the end, maybe half of the MT. So they'll likely hold value a bit better than a typical 3er or 4er, but probably not M car money.
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I like that they mentioned the black badging!!! 👍🏻
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Anyways back to topic. I put “collectible” in quotes because the hype and catchy terms being thrown about regarding the addition of a manual option. |
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...except we've already seen pre-production cars with a manual and a black interior. It's certainly odd wording. |
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My guess is that the two special MT green colors have to have the cognac interior.
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Wtf, why would they have both a San Remo Green & a Frozen San Remo Green (cue additional upcharge) as the exclusive MT options? Hard pass for me if that’s true. I’ll stick with Thundernight as originally planned if that occurs. Morons to bring to market two identical colors, albeit frozen vs non, IMO. Grrr.
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Those greens are likely an homage to the history of ICE roadsters.
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100% get, and appreciate. But to ‘pigeon-hole’ themselves, and buyers, into nearly identical colors, (assuming both San Remo), one Frozen, one gloss, is a fubar imo. Granted, (assuming the slide is even accurate), there’s nothing about an additional added color avail across both AT & MT….but if not, I’ll personally be quite sad. I don’t do dark greens, and certainly not a frozen supplement on top of the suspected MT supplement. That’s a price ceiling I’m just not willing to venture into. Hell, just arrange individual colors if they want to get to that point as far as I’m concerned. /shrug
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Still holding out hope there’s a third color added available across both trannies, as there needs to be a fun/loud color so badly. |
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Perhaps one day BMW will wakeup and realize that they could really attract more Porsche customers if they simply broadened their color palette. I guess that their research says the G29's customer base is older males and that because of our age we want boring, conservative colors. I know that in my case the exact opposite is true! I would also like to see BMW offer a blue top for all of their convertible lineup. Florida is a convertible market and I constantly see various Mercedes models on the road with blue tops. Years ago BMW did offer a blue soft top as I had one on my 1994 Samoa Blue 325i and I constantly received compliments because it was a beautiful color combination. Here is the color selection currently offered to buyers of the Boxster S. A picture says a thousand words! |
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