CARSguide gets 600km of Targa Tassy roads to sort out the BMW’s two new Z4 Coupes.
It was the most hideous hairdresser’s car on the market. It made a pudding-bowl haircut look like the height of fashion.
The mangled, bulbous concoction that was the Z3 Coupe looked like the deformed lovechild of a delivery van and a Bladerunner hearse, and was as polarizing as a pair of sunnies.
In fact, the only way to look at it without a grimace was to wear shades with a very, very dark tint …
In contrast, the new Z4 Coupe is sharply focused, and its hard top and rounded bottom is no longer a nasty afterthought.
It is now something to have nasty thoughts about.
The Z3, both in Roadster and Bread-van M Coupe form, was not the success BMW had hoped for, particularly in this country. Of course, the Yanks loved it.
The next-gen Z4, released in 2003, has been another story.
