i think im in love

NICE! Will be faster and should handle better.
P.S. Couldn’t stand Z3 Coupe, love Z4 Coupe thou.

Light and fast!

thats bangin.

Why not just take that line on the side out altogether

BMW will never stop amazing us.

DAMMNNN THIS THING IS GONNA FLY!!!! IT WOULD PROBABLY BE AT LEAST 10K MORE THOUGH.

Wouldn’t mind my car weighing 3600 lbs. instead of 4100. Hopefully carbon fiber and other materials will become the automotive version of DVD players, exclusive and expensive at first but becoming cheaper and more mass market as time rolls on.

yawn!!

how much is that in kilos

1,260 Kilograms.

That’s just wrong

cool

Ummm, it wasn’t BMW’s doing … it was TC Kline’s. This could have been done to any car given an interest, time and money.

Won’t be mass marketed for quite some time, unfortunately.

Leaving out my distaste for this BMW design … an exercise in showcasing their ability, nothing more.

um… WUT’S UP WITH THE COLOR? RAN OUT OF NORMAL PAINT? but other than that, wow

sigh… i need to settle on a nick.. mr green-darth vader…
darth vader sounds cooler…

ps. i tink i figured d logic behind that color, makes it look bigger =) i mean it does look pretty mousy in grey or black

Zextreme work!

they should’ve left it unpainted. paint=extra weight
also, then it’ll have that cool camouflagin look

WOw, so how fast is it 0-60 and top speed now? What size tires does it have on now? Who built it?

Thats an ugly ass orange. (fruit, not the car, i dont see a car, where is it?!!)

awesome weight savings would translate to incredible performance….but i think the car is ugly…very ugly.

that is a truly WOW car. I’m pretty sure they already did a similar rebody for the z4 roadster, and they were charging >150k for the finished car, not merely 10K, as someone guessed above…. I wonder whether the finished body is built to the same standard that bmw would attempt if they decided to do a carbon body… I’m guessing no, but still, 500lbs gone on an already tiny car… wow.

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uhhh that is quite ugly. that car reminds me of something a Mexican would be driving around.

Yeah I’d love to get some performance numbers too!

Although it’d be mainly things like acceleration, braking, cornering and handling that would be improved.

Top speed would be largely unaffected by the weight loss. Weight is very important when it comes to acceleration, but ALMOST meaningless for top speed. (ALMOST so nobody jumps on me)

For top speed, by far the largest form　of resistance on the car is air resistance, not friction in the parts or with the road, or not even so much lost in the tires. Air resistance increases exponentially with speed, and is ultimately largely responsible for limiting top speed. Unless my memory is faulty, I believe it’s a square relationship. If you double the speed, air resistance increases goes up 4x. If you triple the speed, resistance goes up 9x.
(say from… 50km/h – 100km/h, or 50km/h – 150 km/h) That’s why it becomes quickly, and increasingly, more difficult to accelerate. Of course that’s why aero design/work is so important.

I wonder how much this thing costs probably 100 grand.

Now this MZ4 Coupe will perform as well as the 2002 M Coupe, which for that 1 year came with the European 321-hp engine and did 0-60 in about 4.4 I believe with a 13 flat quarter. Oh and that car handled as well too I am sure, even if many did not find the exterior design appealing…

Think about the repair costs should you require one.

Paint it Blue!

Crash safety? Carbon fiber splinters and shatters in some applications.

Whoa, that car has an Ohio plate on it. I wonder if they do custom applications for small groups.

Hermie that is true, but it is 12 times stronger than steel for the same weight. Think about all the posibilities… having a car weigh less than half as much as it would if made out of alluminum or steel. Better economy, faster, and in the long run if they can figure out how to mass produce it at a cheap price longer lasting! Now all they need to do is get rid of the piston engine… old technology, that is inneficient. That is truley what’s holding the automobiles potential back, the piston engine. And engines that run on fossil fuel in particular or source(s)that run on fossil fuel to create the needed energy.
After making more efficient engines, lighter and more aerodynamic cars the potential for the automobile will be at it’s full… then we’ll have to move to spaceships

Bangle-Ugly with some Kit-Kar flare…yuck!

Instead of a whole body exercise that noone can afford, they need to make simple changeout parts like carbon fiber hoods, doors etc.

That is one nice tuner car. I’d worry about accident safety but…. man oh man, it’s still worth it no matter what.

I’m not sure people should be bangin’ on Bangle crying out their distaste for contemporary design; did he or Adrian van Hoydoonk actually design this beauty?

Needs Engine, Suspension and Braking Enhancements. Otherwise Brilliant car and worksmanship.

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A great car, but I wouldn’t have it in that ugly orange colour though.

That colour is just for the show, look at AC Schnitzer’s Topster, it’s also got Orange and Yellow.

Needs Engine, Suspension and Braking Enhancements. Otherwise Brilliant car and worksmanship.

Comment by Cameron, posted on September4 at 3:54 am

Obviously you don’t know anything about the mz4 coupe if you think the engine, suspension and brakes are not up to par.

I personally like the color. 515 pounds is a substancial number. Race teams fight for ounces, this is a knock-out. The car does need more power and suspension upgrades thou. Lighten the car, and give it more power, equals quicker. Thats a lot of money, but then again it takes money to go faster.

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