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Editorial GoAuto Newsroom PO Box 18 Sandringham VIC 3191 (03) 9598 6477 newsroom@mellor.net Editor David Hassall dhassall@mellor.net Production Luc Britten Chris Harris Sub-editor Ron Hammerton Contributors Marton Pettendy Byron Mathioudakis Terry Martin Ian Porter James Stanford Philip Lord Advertising enquiries Sally Mellor (03) 9598 6477 0425 700 904 sally@mellor.net iSelect’s Issue 3 ● July 2009 MOTOR MONTHLY Grand heft auto Z4 stacks on 200kg, but is it worth the weight? Compare, Select and Save Blown like the wind Awesome new supercharged 375kW Jaguar XFR roars in Czech out the RS Latest performance Octavia gives Skoda some street cred Up and Atom! Ariel goes ballistic and claims title of the world’s fastest production car r Ê Hit and Swiss Leblanc supercar is really just one track minded N H 2 /18
\\ DRIVEN: BMW Z4 Grand heft auto Z4 stacks on 200kg, but is it worth the weight? By MARTON PETTENDY BMW’s Z4 has grown up, in more ways than one. So much so that perhaps it should be called the Z5, because the latest generation represents even more of a quantum leap over the first Z4 than the latter did over the original Z3. Compare, Select and Save But, proving that not even BMW can build a folding hard-top convertible that’s anywhere near as light as a soft-top, the new Z4 is almost a staggering 200kg heavier, with the new Z4 sDrive35i topping the range in twinclutch M-DCT form at a very unroadster-like 1600kg. Throw in a slightly less powerful 2.5-litre entry-level engine and the base Z4 is a tenth of a second slower to 100km/h than its predecessor. Although the six-speed auto version improves marginally, it is also significantly thirstier – hardly something to crow about for a car-maker whose mantra has become EfficientDynamics. With no replacement yet for the M versions, the new Z4’s headline act is the additional sDrive35i variant, powered by the 225kW/400Nm twin-turbo direct-injection six from the 335i. r Ê N H 3 /18
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