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The BMW Z4 Individual.
Sat Oct 01 12:00:00 CEST 2005 Press Kit
When BMW launched the Z4 in 2003 the company meant business in the sports car realm. Here was a roadster that looked exactly the way an open-topped car should, a roadster that handled and drove, and offered Sheer Driving Pleasure, exactly as one would expect a BMW sports car to.
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1. The BMW Z4 Individual 2. BMW Individual - A Short History 3. The BMW
Z4 - A Technology Recap 4. Specifications. 5. Exterior and Interior
Dimensions. 6. Output and Torque Diagrams. When BMW launched the Z4 in
2003 the company meant business in the sports car realm. Here was a
roadster that looked exactly the way an open-topped car should, a
roadster that handled and drove, and offered Sheer Driving Pleasure,
exactly as one would expect a BMW sports car to. Today, nothing has
changed. Almost two and a half years on, the Z4 is still a breathtaking
experience on the road and still a purist automobile for the
connoisseur. Arguably, the Z4 is still the ideal Roadster - but the
ideal is not perfect until it is perfectly your own. Now with the
option of new BMW Individual compositions for the Z4 roadster, BMW is
enhancing the exclusivity of one of the country's most sought after
sports cars. After all, in a sports car, more than any other, one
starts out with the desire to drive an automobile which entirely meets
one's own requirements of performance, status and exclusivity. The more
exacting these requirements are, the more difficult it is to meet them
because real exclusivity has one quality above all others: it is
extremely rare. Design and exterior: new paintwork, new personalities
Through its proportions alone, the Z4 is a truly remarkable car: The
long, sleek and stretched-out engine compartment, the snug cockpit
wrapped around the driver and passenger, and the short, muscular rear
end. But in BMW Individual paint finish, the Z4 takes on a new persona.
While the Individual interior treatment is applicable to the current
available colour spectrum, the addition of the iridescent paints
Orinoco Metallic and Midnight Blue Metallic allows the Z4 to become
even more eye catching. For the BMW Individual paint finish Orinoco
metallic, BMW Individual designers drew their inspiration from the
diversity of species which results in a continuous metamorphosis of
colours in the delta of the Orinoco River in Venezuela. In the paint
finish, as in the river, the blue is overlaid with countless tones of
green resulting in a colour that changed when viewed from alternative
angles or under different light conditions. Similarly, Midnight Blue
metallic with its fine pigmentation reveals a sea of colours when
looked at closely, with an effect similar to the changing surface of
the ocean itself. In addition, the BMW Z4 Individual rides on signature
18-inch BMW Individual V-spoke light-alloy wheels exclusive to BMW
Individual with mixed tyres: 225/40 R18 up front and 255/35 R18 at the rear.