A lacklustre Bond car perhaps, but BMW's rarest coupe has other attributes to recommend it - not least the V8.
Note for reference: car weight and power data is hard to pin down with absolute certainty. For consistency, we use the same source for all our guides. We hope the data we use is right more often than it’s wrong. Our advice is to treat it as relative rather than definitive. At the time of the Z8’s arrival, its 4.9 litre S62 V8 was BMW’s most powerful production engine. As noted earlier it was also used in the M5.
The gearstick gave you a reliable connection with the Getrag gearbox and had a shorter throw than the M5 but the action was still pretty deliberate and not quick. Clutch action was light. At the end of the day, you’re looking at a very driveable and very usable manual V8. How many of those can you think of? The cool thing about a Z8 of course is that any BMW dealer or specialist will be able to look after it.
Front suspension looseness accompanied by a rumble through the steering column and a steering ‘shimmy’ was experienced by some owners. In some instances, BMW replaced several parts in a piecemeal and somewhat random fashion in an effort to hit the target. Replacing the factory fluid-filled suspension bushings on the inner and outer control arms and the front strut rods with poly bushings worked for some, although they did alter the driving characteristics of the car.
If the roof didn’t move when you asked it to, the issue could often be solved by lowering and raising the windows, or if you were really lucky by turning the whole car off and on again. Sometimes however it would be a busted microswitch. There was a manual override to help you out if you could find the relevant section in the owner’s manual.
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