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The Manual Z4 Is the Best New BMW: Review

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There was a great deal of fanfare when BMW announced the latest, Supra-sibling Z4 was getting a manual transmission. For the first time ever, BMW’s only true sports car launched without a manual gearbox, and no word on whether it would get one. After years of tight-lipped reticence, the Z4 got its flowers only after the Toyota Supra got its long-anticipated and popular manual gearbox. Yet this new “Handschalter” package isn’t quite a Supra carryover job.

The curiosity is that BMW didn’t simply carry over Supra parts. It uses its own linkage, which is objectively inferior to the Supra’s, but is still charmingly BMW. Longish. Rubbery. Notchy. Lovely. It uses its own throttle calibration, which is distinctly blippier and more responsive than the Supra. Then BMW even retuned the dampers to better suit the experience of the manual gearbox. It’s the same old gearbox that has been in almost every manual BMW since 2005, the ZF GS6, and is the same as the Supra.

The manual Z4 is one of BMW’s best efforts in a long time, and it seemingly came from a place of passion rather than performance targets. There’s something to this car I can’t quite explain on paper, so sit back and enjoy the sights and sounds of Bavaria’s hand-shifted roadster.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:50 - 2025 BMW Z4 Exhaust
01:05 - BMW Z4 vs Toyota Supra
01:50 - 2025 BMW Z4 Weight
02:30 - 2025 BMW Z4 Engine
03:40 - 2025 BMW Z4 Competition
04:20 - 2025 BMW Z4 Ride Quality
04:30 - 2025 BMW Z4 Usability
05:13 - 2025 BMW Z4 Manual Transmission
06:50 - 2025 BMW Z4 Flaws
08:10 - 2025 BMW Z4 Convertible Aerodynamics
09:00 - 2025 BMW Z4 Final Thoughts

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