Would this hardtop Z4 cut in on the Supra's coupe lane?
You may have heard the quote"everything old is new again" at some point in your life—maybe that quote is old, and now that we're surfacing it, it's new again for you. See? Anyway, for a few of the latest car-related examples, just look to the muscle car resurgence of the early aughts, or the Volkswagen New Beetle in the '90s. BMW also jumped into the fray back then and resurrected the Mini brand.
The BMW Concept Touring Coupé, which just made its debut at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este, should therefore look very familiar. Despite BMW saying that the concept's inspiration comes from the 1940 328 Touring Coupe and the 02 series from the '70s, the resemblance toand its successor, the Z4 Coupe of the early 2000s is unmistakable.
Those two prior Coupes were rare offshoots of the Z3 and Z4 roadsters, and loosely fit the description of a"shooting brake," or a two-door wagonlet. Both also wore such extreme long-hood, short-greenhouse proportions they were lovingly nicknamed"clownshoes" after their resemblance to funny peoples' footwear.
As it tends to go with concept cars, BMW hasn't made any mention of performance numbers for the Touring Coupé. The automaker says that the Touring Coupé has its"hallmark" inline-6 engine under the hood.
Even though BMW is calling this car a concept, it looks fairly production ready which has us genuinely curious if the automaker is seriously considering bringing back the clownshoe as a Z4 variant—which would create some overlap, of course, with the Z4's platform-mate, the coupe-only Toyota GR Supra—to the American market in the near future. We'd love to see it.
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