{"id":48017,"date":"2023-04-23T09:03:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T13:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=48017"},"modified":"2023-04-23T09:03:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T13:03:19","slug":"junkyard-gem-2003-bmw-z4-roadster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=48017","title":{"rendered":"Junkyard Gem: 2003 BMW Z4 2.5i Roadster"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BMW Z4 is now in its 21st model year<\/a>, 34 years after the first Z Series cars<\/a> were built. I’ve been seeing discarded Z3s<\/a> for a few years now, during my travels through the boneyards<\/a>, but its E85 successor<\/a> appears to have held onto its value well enough to get fixed when it gets bent or broken\u2026 until now. Here’s a first-year E85 Z4, found in a car graveyard in Northern California<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Just as the Z3’s chassis was derived from that of the E36 3-Series<\/a>, the first Z4 was based on the platform of the E36’s successor, the E46<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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American Z4 shoppers in 2003 had their choice of two straight-six engines: a 2.5-liter rated at 184 horsepower and a 3.0-liter rated at 225 horsepower.<\/p>\n

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This car has the 2.5-liter engine. The MSRP on this car was $33,100, or about $54,804 in 2023 dollars.<\/p>\n

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The interior has been thoroughly gutted by bargain-hunting junkyard shoppers, but the pedal count tells us that it came with the five-speed automatic transmission rather than the base 5-speed manual (the 3.0i came with a 6-speed manual as standard equipment).<\/p>\n

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The Z4 Coupe<\/a> didn’t become available until the 2006 model year, so it was mandatory convertibles for all Z4 buyers when this car was new.<\/p>\n

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It appears that this car had an unfortunate scrape-the-guardrail incident, followed by not-so-effective repairs involving body filler and tape.<\/p>\n

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There will be more junkyard Z4s to come, and they’ll get picked over less quickly as they become more commonplace.<\/p>\n\n

Driving through a puddle has never been so exhilarating. The German-market ads were more artsy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

0 mph never looked so fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BMW Z4 is now in its 21st model year, 34 years after the first Z Series cars were built. I’ve been seeing discarded Z3s for a few years now, during my travels through the boneyards, but its E85 successor appears to have held onto its value well enough to get fixed when it gets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}