Comments on: BMW Z8 owners furious over frame warpage http://www.leftlanenews.com/bmw-z8-owners-furious-over-frame-warpage.html Car news, reviews, and specs for the auto-industry Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Capozzi http://www.leftlanenews.com/bmw-z8-owners-furious-over-frame-warpage.html#comment-2202 John Capozzi Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:12:39 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/01/19/bmw-z8-owners-furious-over-frame-warpage/#comment-2202 It cost Steve Dinan 3 or 4 complete Z8 body shells to fix the damage his techs inflicted when they had to remove some material from the frame to give clearance for M5 headers, and at that time (two years ago) there were only a dozen or so "spare" frames left at BMW. And I haven't checked used Z8 prices lately, but even the most expensive version, the Alpina Z8, had a sticker under $110k when new. It cost Steve Dinan 3 or 4 complete Z8 body shells to fix the damage his techs inflicted when they had to remove some material from the frame to give clearance for M5 headers, and at that time (two years ago) there were only a dozen or so “spare” frames left at BMW.

And I haven’t checked used Z8 prices lately, but even the most expensive version, the Alpina Z8, had a sticker under $110k when new.

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