There were rumors that the new BMW Z6 will replace the BMW Z4, but this is only speculation. That’s because the new Z6 will have bigger enginess than the Z4, with bigger output and a different orientation than the Z4.
The luxury option from the Z6 will make the car to have a price arround $130.00, while the Z4 which starts at $40.000. A succesor for the Z4 will come, but in 2010 and will be named Z2. The successor to today’s Z4 will remain near $40,000 and will continue to compete against the Audi TT, Porsche Boxster and Nissan 350Z.
In 1996, when BMW first debuted the Z3 roadster, the only significant competition was from Mazda’s Miata. And in that single first year of the Z3, BMW managed to widen the roadster market and take away nearly half of it from Mazda.
The 2002 BMW Z3 brings to us the rewards of six years of consistent development and improvement. The exciting Z3 was BMW’s contribution to the rebirth of the sports car that began with the Mazda Miata and has also included the Mercedes-Benz SLK, Toyota MR-2 Spyder and other two seaters. However, the 1996 Z3 didn’t reach the company’s high standards of refinement, in particular with its suspension, but all of that began being corrected almost immediately.