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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 12:22 PM
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Picked up my new car down in Birmingham on Monday and had a leisurely drive back up the road to Glasgow. Bought it privately from some poor guy who was gutted at having to sell it but his wife is 7 1/2 months pregnant and he's having to change to something more practical.

It's a BMW Z4 Coupe 3.0 si Sport. Gave it a good wash, claybar and wax today then headed out and took some pics












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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 12:44 PM
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 12:45 PM
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Thoughts so far Mr Billy?

Clearly it's chalk and cheese with the Evo but are you more at home in this?
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by MB,Mar 28 2009, 08:45 PM
Thoughts so far Mr Billy?

Clearly it's chalk and cheese with the Evo but are you more at home in this?
This kind of feels like coming home as the S2000 had definitely been my favourite car even after driving the EVO. Two seater sports cars FTW!

Obviously it's slower than the EVO was but with 265 bhp on tap it doesn't hang about either. I'm loving the handling of it though. I don't consider myself to be a great driver by any means and I probably never pushed the EVO anywhere near as far as it could go but on some familiar roads the BMW goes round the corners at least as fast as the EVO did. It really does seem to be a very well put together car
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 01:55 PM
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easily the best looking Z4 variant

nice one Billy
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 01:58 PM
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Looks really nice
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 02:46 PM
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Can I be a total gay and ask how big the boot is??
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 03:00 PM
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Nice pics

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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by MB,Mar 28 2009, 10:46 PM
Can I be a total gay and ask how big the boot is??
I reckon it's a pretty decent size - 340 litres apparently.
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Subaru2000,Mar 28 2009, 11:00 PM
Nice pics

A man of taste
you would say that
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