Over the years, BMW has built some of the more-amazing performance cars to come from Germany, often giving Porsche a run for its money. The cars from BMW also tend to offer convenience options that we don’t see in the cars from Stuttgart until a few years later.
In addition, while the top-performance Porsche road cars tend to escalate in value quite quickly, cars such as BMW’s M-series tend to be available for more-reasonable sums of money.
The Pick of the day is one of those cars, a 2007 BMW Z4 M coupe.
The Z4 M coupe is a rare car with only 1,815 built by BMW for North America from 2006 until the end of production in 2008, which is less-than half the production of the Z4 M roadster.
The Addison, Illinois, dealer offering this M coupe on ClassicCars.com describes it as an 81,000-mile example with options that include adaptive xenon headlights, heated front seats and heated exterior mirrors. The BMW is finished in its original Interlagos Blue metallic paint with a Light Sepang Bronze Nappa leather interior and aluminum trim.
These Z4 M coupes offer appealing fastback styling combined with a level of exclusivity and performance that is difficult to beat for the price. The engine is the final evolution of the BMW S54 3,246cc inline-6 that started out in the US-spec E46 M3 cars. It puts out a strong 330 horsepower and 262 pound-feet of torque at 4,900 rpm.
The car can cover 0-60 in 4.6 seconds, the quarter mile in 13.8 seconds and with an electronically limited top speed of 155 mph.
Combine that with the unbelievable chassis dynamics of a BMW model and you have a serious performance car. The only gearbox offered is happily a 6-speed manual.
A few years ago, these stunning fastback BMWs were almost forgotten and you could buy one for around $20,000. It seems that since then the world has woken up and “discovered” these rare and capable BMW M cars and prices have been on the rise, and few offered for sale.
This Z4 M coupe is offered for what I would call a fair price of $29,990. The prices are not likely to drop anytime soon as super-low-mileage examples are now quietly trading between $60,000 and $75,000.
This is a perfect example of an up-and-coming classic that you can still buy for a reasonable price, and you would do well to buy one sooner than later.
To view this listing on ClassicCars.com, see Pick of the Day.
saw one few months backs should latched onto it $23,500
I think more like 25K is the going price it has 81K miles HIGH MILES for a collectible car but is a NICE coupe..