Can you imagine BMW making a car like the Z1 today? There isn’t even a snowball’s chance in hell that BMW would even entertain the idea of creating a unique vehicle, something that wasn’t already…
We all remember the Z1 as the quirky roadster with plastic body panels and vertically sliding doors, but here’s an interesting fact about the low-volume original Z car you probably didn’t know. In an interview…
Held at the Messe Stuttgart convention center in Germany, the Retro Classics event is the go-to venue for rekindling with some of BMW’s greatest hits. This year’s edition has a particularly impressive lineup with a…
I only lived through about five minutes of the 1980s, however there’s always been something about the ’80s that calls to me. I once heard that the ’80s was a decade that was unapologetically itself…
A car meet is like a rolling museum as you get to see models spanning decades of history while on the go. Some are rarer than others and owners usually drive them only when such…
BMW actually has a decent stable of convertibles at the moment. There’s the 4 Series Convertible, 8 Series Convertible, M4 Convertible, and the BMW Z4 Roadster. Not too shabby of a lineup, if I’m being…
This upcoming Silverstone Auction is going to be a good one for BMW enthusiasts. There are going to be several interesting and unique BMW models going under the hammer and you get to see all…
The BMW Z1 wrote history back when it was introduced for a number of reasons. Even though its name would suggest looking towards the future (the Z stood for Zukunft — “Future” in German), some…
The BMW Z1 was a revolutionary car when it first came out. It wasn’t only because it started a naming convention that lives to this day but also because it had some very clever tricks…
Nico DeMattia covered the story of the BMW Z1’s doors in a recent article on BMWBLOG. Reading that reminded me that the newly formed BMW Technik, in 1985, was the origin of the Z1. As…
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