2020 BMW Z4 M40i Review First Drive
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ธ.ค. 2024
- The all-new BMW Z4 is here and we've got the M40i version in for testing. The 2020 BMW Z4 M40i is the quickest version of the Z4 on offer, until BMW decides to offer a full jam M model.
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Love the blue with ivory interior. Cool wheels. Prefer
manuals but hey you can't always get what you want.
Great review period!
This is an old one!
Thanks for the review. Have you driven the M2 Comp? How would you compare the two with regards to driving dynamics and engine power delivery?
Yes. They’re very similar. I much prefer the M2 CS, but that’s another story. The Z4 is great.
Great video, thanks for sharing. I have a 2007 Z4 M which I love to bits.
Thanks. Great car, yours. Keep enjoying!
Been toying with the idea of getting one of these so I bumped into your video. I'm curious ... why the overlay on the video to cover the speed/rev display as you are driving?
Why not?
Hi Brian , Merri Beth and I found 9000 mile CPO 2020 Z4 M40i we will have delivered from Denver to El Dorado Hills, Ca in a week or so. Your review is very much appreciated makes us even happier for our choice. Thanks Skip&Merri Beth
Great to hear! Enjoy!
Great video as always. I was the person who asked you about driving position and hand position on the wheel, a couple weeks ago...and would like to think that I had a small (very small) part in this video!
How did your first round of golf for the year go? Take care.
Yeah, that’s been on my mind. This final word thing sprung from that and more to come. As for golf, managed a few killer drives, a couple of pars, and a bird, but most importantly I had a great day with my homey. I’d love to get out again soon.
I'm taking delivery of one in a few days! Why have you superimposed the display @ 47 seconds?
Yup, I love it when you drive things
great channel. love your reviews. driving and unbiased reviews. unlike other guys that praise the manufactures for extra $$'s
Thanks, Mike. No one really gets paid by the OEMs, but they will get blacklisted by some if they render some negative opinions. Ask me how I know.
Fantastic review
Thanks! Hope you stick around!
Love my Z4!
You’re biased!
@@BrianMakse Lil bit! 😁
Cool thank you
You're welcome!
Why does every other source say twin turbo 6 and not single twin scroll. Which is it?
Because every other source doesn't know the difference between a turbocharger and a pair of vice grips. Thanks for visiting our channel.
The 10 to 2 steering wheel method is still mandatory in many countries driving instructions to obtain a licence and is an excellent method for teaching drivers how to first learn to drive, I don’t think you should be discouraging it, most drivers get into very bad habits after a short period of time and are the cause of most accidents better to criticise the nanny state driving electronics in modern cars like the Z4 which drivers rely on and then can’t deal with breakaway oversteer when it occurs. Because cars are so easy to drive today 90% of drivers are just not concentrating and assume the safety systems will take care of everything, fortunately in the BMW you can still turn most of it off including active cruise control. Personally I don’t buy cars if you can’t turn it all off it’s a deal breaker.
Let me help you with that: th-cam.com/video/ErK4N5H620M/w-d-xo.html
10 and 2 is the opposite of excellent. That teaches bad habits from the start primarily because it's from another era...unless I've missed something and new drivers are still learning to drive in cars from the 1940s. Modern cars are designed for 9 and 3.
@@BrianMakse I might not have your racing pedigree as I have only raced in Radical SR3 open top with slicks and sequential transmission, with real down force, but I don’t think this kind of driving relates to street drivers well at all. It’s a case of leaving everything you learned for a road licence at the gate and start again. for young novice drivers 10-2 teaches them how to gain feel and confidence about the gradual progression of wheel movement versus actual total vehicle transitions of direction inputs. Personally I am never in favour of turning your arms into a locked over arms position because at that point the wheel often has more to go and young drivers are in a mess as to what to do next. In modern cars with power steering and lock to lock ratio’s becoming more race car like this is less of an issue but that tends to be the more expensive vehicles. The 9-3 approach is fine in time but often immediately becomes elbow on the door and hand at 9 and goodness knows what the other hand is doing…
@@Tracertme I may not have your racing pedigree as I have only raced in several professional series including short course off road trucks, won only a couple of national titles in American club racing, and have been teaching racing and performance driving for a just couple of decades. 10 and 2 is outdated. 9 and 3 is intuitive and modern steering wheels are designed for it. Modern steering rack ratios aren't becoming quicker, save for a very small number of specialist cars. I won't encourage you to start your own TH-cam channel because modern drivers don't need any more bad ideas from eras gone by.
Hey Brian, how does the M compare with my 981 Spyder? Lots of peeps prefer the M2 CS, which is not an apples to apples comparison. Great channel btw, better than Smoking Tire, imho. Although you and Matt could be “brothers from another mother”.😹😹
This is a soft-M, really, not even worthy of comparison to your Spyder. Slower, softer, sloppier, but perhaps a little more livable day to day. Haven't tried M2 CS yet for various reason, so can't comment. I'm not a fan of the M2 as it is, so CS could go either way for me.
Matt and I have known each other for years! I've done plenty of TST podcasts, check them out!
Hi Brian another excellent video as we've come to expect from you. Last time we chatted we had a differing of opinion re. the Lexus LC500 which you preferred and the RCF which I preferred. Come Saturday I have arranged a test drive with the RCF which I thought I'd made up my mind on. However, a collegue at work has a Lotus Esprit V8 which I've taken a ride in and was v. impressed. I've also had a ride in a Porsche 928 GTS and was impressed by that too. I'd like to call on your experience as a race driver and ask if you have any experience of either the Lotus or the Porsche. Any imput will be most welcome. Thanks. :-)
Wish I had something for you there, but it’s been years since I pedaled a 928 and I doubt I’ve ever sat in an Esprit. Still, the LC500 is a favourite!
😂. There is no lag on the manual shift. You ever driven a corvette with paddles. Now that has lag. I drove this back to back with a pdx boxter and felt zero difference. Great overall review though
Have you driven a dual clutch M4?
@@BrianMakse no but like I said I drove the dual clutch pdx from Porsche which is considered by most to be one of best best on the market and it was no better. Drove them back to back for reference. Not sure how much faster you guys expect these automatics to be.
I expect the Z4's shift calibration to be quicker and sharper than it is. It's a sports car, after all.
@@BrianMakse 😂. We will agree to disagree. I don’t even own the car but it was more than fast enough for me and much faster then a lot of other so called sports cars I’ve driven.
Well, I've been reviewing cars for, I dunno, ten years and racing them for almost thirty. We'll have to agree to disagree.
vehicle virgins strokes every car he drives. one begins to wonder
I don’t even need to add a comment on this subject. 😎
Funny.
I actually preferred the looks of prior generation, it was sexy and different inside and out. The exterior of this new one is not bad, but it can almost be anything like a Miata or that Fiat Miata. As for interior that cup holder inside arm rest is just stupid and lack of Apple Play or forcing people to pay is just crazy. This is a cruiser and those misses makes it a no go even if it is quick. The BMW straight six is still the best thing about BMW. Thanks for the great review.
Thanks, Paul.
Agree with the cupholder thing - and the split opening makes it bad for passengers even if they dont have a drink themselves.
I think he meant to say hes reviewing the toyota supra lol jk
I should have mentioned that first Supra comment loses lol
Glad the Apple war is over
Nah, it's not totally over yet. They still want you on their BMW app.
@@BrianMakse that’s true. Somehow my 2017 M240i has Apple Car play when I bought it used. Ima just roll with it
Good looking car but I don't get why people like white interiors. I'm too sloppy.
Your guess is as good as mine. This is what they gave me.
Get vanilla milkshakes, not chocolate shakes...