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      09-19-2009, 12:56 AM   #21
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Drives: 2009 Z4 sDrive35i
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Originally Posted by teagueAMX View Post
Note they say "and an unladen weight of 1485 kg" - doesn't BMW spec the weight including a driver and half a tank of gas? May not account for 210 lbs, however.
The BMW figure in the Z4 brochure is 3450 lbs. This is the unladen or curb weight. They factor in a tank of fuel into the curb weight. They do not factor in driver weight.

Road & Track lists the Z4 curb weight as 3460 (off by 10 lbs from the BMW brochure, so probably a misprint) and a test weight of 3615, because they had a 155 lb driver test driving it.

R & T ran a 4.8 second 0-60 with their 155 lb lightweight of a test driver. So what's slowing me down about .05 seconds is the extra 45 lbs of body weight I have on the test driver. Easy modification - eat less, exercise more.
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