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      01-14-2011, 11:28 AM   #89
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Great side by side comparisons. Thanks for sharing. I still say our 300 horses are stronger than their 302.
We actually have 332 HP in the 35i. It's already been proven with Dynos.
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      01-14-2011, 11:32 AM   #90
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And the Z4 doesn't. LOL. They both are. Wish BMW still made the coupe.
Awesome.... another tool that laughs at his own jokes. Go back to your MB forum would you please.
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      01-14-2011, 11:57 AM   #91
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(Btw, I can't stand it when someone says "it's a chick car". Females stereotypically have better aesthetic taste than males, so whatever.)
You know you may be on to something there.. Maybe these people are just hung up on the fact that the aesthetic design came from a female team. Which speaks more to their knuckle dragging selves than the car.

Hell, I say if these 2 roadsters represent the difference between a female design team and an all male one...., let the women design and the men engineer. Cadillac CTS-V coupe i'm also looking at you...
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      01-14-2011, 12:09 PM   #92
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We have a Z4... and I absolutely love it

But hands down, once our Z4 lease is up in a year or so, we will get the SLK (pending lease programs of course)

I love the new SLk, it's a mini SL/SLS
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We actually have 332 HP in the 35i. It's already been proven with Dynos.
How?

I dynoed our Z4 with a base of about 280WHP... 350whp with tune.

or wait, are you referring to 332Bhp?
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      01-14-2011, 12:16 PM   #94
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Looks like someone was given photos of the SLS and Z4 for inspiration, and a bunch of legos.
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      01-14-2011, 12:20 PM   #95
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^LOL.
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      01-14-2011, 12:26 PM   #96
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We have a Z4... and I absolutely love it

But hands down, once our Z4 lease is up in a year or so, we will get the SLK (pending lease programs of course)

I love the new SLk, it's a mini SL/SLS

So enlighten us, as an E89 owner.. what exactly do you see that we are missing?? I just want to understand what ppl are seeing other than it's the new kid on the block.

And don't just say it looks like an SLS because it's not even close. If that is your reasoning, well then I understand.., you need to get your eyes checked.

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      01-14-2011, 12:34 PM   #97
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I guess it's heading towards the SLS (like its deformed, midget little brother) but I don't even think the SLS looks nice, so...
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      01-14-2011, 12:44 PM   #98
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Does anyone else see a little R2D2 in the MB's projector headlights?
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      01-14-2011, 01:00 PM   #99
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Ai Capt'n - I think you've been assimilated. So take your garbage scow Enterprise & E90 and beam back to your own forum please.
Hey, don't get me wrong. I'm the one with 4 BMWs in my car history. I love the brand, love the handling and feel, but if we're objectively looking at photos for a design comparison the Merc is superior in this particular case.

Heck knows that it probably doesn't handle at all as well as the Z4, but you gotta give props to the styling. The Z4's "flow," as many people describe the elongated curves, is just a bit too feminine for my sensibility. The Z4 would be a lovely car for my wife, but I'd rather be seen in the SLK.

Of course the M3 trumps both, and that's the forum in which I assimilate your race. Resistance is futile.
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      01-14-2011, 01:19 PM   #100
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Actually the first thing my wife said when she saw the Z was.. "oh ya, its a Peter Mobile"

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      01-14-2011, 01:36 PM   #101
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z4 win.. with a big difference that is..

and the side gills on that benz where stolen from aston martin.. or even the m3.. not theirs anw..
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      01-14-2011, 02:18 PM   #102
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It looks like the SLS and the SL had a child. The Z4 looks 10x better. It flows better.
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      01-14-2011, 04:43 PM   #103
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I will wait until I see the SLK in the flesh to compare.

I had to laugh at the video though.
Marketing people must live in some sort of weird alternate reality.

A world where bugs and insects are magnetically attracted to a car?
A possessed demon inside the vehicle telling you to do things? (satnav aside)

Design wise - I applaud the sun roof - I have often thought that someone who buys a car with a convertible roof woud appreciate the ability to get the view of the sky / sun all the time. I would in any case.
The wind deflector also seems a bit "clip on" to me, not a neat installation.

The descision on whether I would own one would depend on how it drove on the road.

I think that is the basis of the whole "hairdressers" or "chicks" car classification used by the troglodites of the world.
If a car is designed just to look good, then it was classified as one of the above.
As in a guy would care less how it looked and a girl / hairdresser would care less how it drove.

What we seem to have here in the Z4 forum is a weird cross-over space where we like / need both aspects in a car.
Qudos to us then for stepping out of the stereotypes.
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      01-14-2011, 05:22 PM   #104
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Z4 tops MB by infinity-miles here
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      01-14-2011, 05:58 PM   #105
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They're both beautiful. But the one thing the that Z4 has that the SLK doesn't have are those lines!! It's what attracted me to the Z4 in the first place. I'm a proud owner.
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      01-14-2011, 06:35 PM   #106
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How?

I dynoed our Z4 with a base of about 280WHP... 350whp with tune.

or wait, are you referring to 332Bhp?
332 BHP
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      01-14-2011, 07:49 PM   #107
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You know, I think everybody is just so surprised that it actually looks better than everybody anticipated. All the spy shots with the camouflouge ... even the people on the SLK forums said it looked ugly and their next car would be a Z4. And then they show the car and althought it's not a #1 or maybe not even a #2, it's at least on 3rd place. I think people are just excited and surprised by that and go "wow, that's not bad ... not perfect, but not bad at all".

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What I can't quite get a handle on is whether the handful of you that favor the SLK are just playing devils advocate (which i can appreciate) or do you really just have no sense of aesthetic? Regardless of whether or not we are on a BMW forum or that I own one, that SLK is a hideous hodgepodge of various ideas that don't work in concert. If it looked more like a mini SLS I'd be singing a different tune and questioning my recent choice in 70K cars.

If you haven't already check out the terrible promo vid:

http://blog.caranddriver.com/2012-me...n-promo-video/

One more shameless plug of my vehicle below:
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      01-14-2011, 08:39 PM   #108
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z4 has got sexy ladies' curves, can't find those in SLK.
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      01-14-2011, 09:25 PM   #109
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disappointing. SLK looks dated from the side, doesnt even look like anythings different besides the front and back. the rear is nice but the front looks weird. Z4 wins
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