The BMW Z4 is among the many nice driver’s vehicles of the present period.
It’s quick sufficient to fulfill any fanatic however not chase velocity data. You might outrun it in a dash to 60 mph in a M5 sedan.
As an alternative, the Z4 is all about crisp dealing with and top-down driving pleasure. Two-seat roadsters are for drivers who need to take pleasure in feeling like Ayrton Senna at times on a winding highway however don’t want bragging rights.
The Z4 has lengthy been an impressive driver’s automobile — the Miata for the luxurious set — apart from one essential omission. The present era lacks a handbook transmission possibility.
The sort of driver who desires of a fairly little two-seater ragtop usually imagines a 3rd pedal as a part of the package deal.
It’s lastly coming.
“Followers of driving pleasure in its purest kind can stay up for a brand new arrival from BMW crafted particularly for them: the 2025 BMW Z4 M40i is on the market for the very first time with a 6-speed handbook gearbox,” BMW has introduced.
Toyota Went First
The transfer has been rumored for a while. Oddly, Toyota sells its personal model of the Z4. The GR Supra sport coupe is a BMW Z4 below the pores and skin. Toyota remakes the physique to show it right into a hardtop coupe however adjustments little else.
True story — pair your cellphone to the present GR Supra, and your cellphone will establish it as a BMW Z4.
Toyota added a third-pedal choice to the Supra for 2023. That made it appear inevitable that BMW would observe.
And it has.
$3,500 Possibility, Restricted to Higher Trim Stage
It’s out there solely on the Z4 M40i trim degree, in a particular “handschalter” version. The M40i will get a 3.0-liter turbocharged inline 6-cylinder engine, an adaptive suspension, and stronger brakes. The handschalter provides “a retuned chassis and mixed-size M light-alloy wheels measuring 19 inches on the entrance axle and 20 inches on the rear.”
BMW says the handbook possibility will add $3,500 to the Z4’s worth. BMW hasn’t launched 2025 pricing but, so we don’t know what so as to add that sum to. The 2024 M40i on supplier tons immediately begins at $66,295 (together with a $995 vacation spot cost).
Six-speed variations additionally get “Prolonged Shadowline black high-gloss exterior trim on the outside mirror caps, badging, and specifically designed flaps for managing the airflow across the rear wheel arches, in addition to pink calipers for the M Sport brakes.”
We’ll have to check it, however we anticipate the handbook to make the Z4 what it ought to have been.
