ready for another M coupe and M roadster?
September 28th, 2005BMW has a habit of telling the public things won’t happen (to keep us from waiting to spend on products that are available now perhaps?) and then letting them happen anyway.
Case in point: we were told there would be no coupe version of the Z roadster this time around, and yet one is on the way. (You have to wonder if the car would ave ever made it into production had Porsche not decided to build the Cayman).
And just last night we trailed an undisguised, production ready M roadster through the Santa Monica mountains for nearly an hour – from the sound of it the car will come with the same ageless 333hp inline 6 used in the current M3 and the last M coupe and roadster, not the 4.0 V8 derived from the new M5’s 5.0L V10 that’s slated for the next generation M3…
If the Z4 platform wasn’t saddled by horribly artificial electric power steering and bumpy, slipery run-flat tires, we’d be salivating (but it is so we’d opt for the Porsche products instead). I wouldn’t be surprised if those are the first things BMW M engineers get rid of…