Verdammt! BMW’s affordable roadster Z2 is fired

Posted on 16-06-2015 to 20:00 by Dizono – 54 Comments”

Well, in Munich they now prefer working with a model year SUVS than with fun sporty models ‘Freude am fahren’ is really true.

To the debate for – or rear-wheel drive equivalent, but just the head, according to the plans would also have the BMW Z2 which was planned for 2016 – front wheel drive. The plans were for the car (think +/- 30.000-35.000 euros) on the same platform as the MINI, the recently launched BMW X1 and the next 1 Series and have now once the economically responsible to drive the front wheels.

Who does in a New MINI has ridden it, knows that front wheel drive is not necessarily the recipe is for boring driving. On the contrary, the MINI hoekt excellent and BMW knew they had made the Z2 a little bit more honed. But so far this is, therefore, not at all.

BMW seems to have more interest in SUV’s and crossover’s, and see apparently no valid business case for the Z2 a financial success. It is not even the first time that the Z2 is fired, in 2009, it seemed already almost sure that the Z2 in 2012, while the first rumors even though the 2006 strains. In 2011 presented by BMW in Geneva is still the Vision ConnectedDrive, but that was no precursor of a small roadster. Fortunately, we have the still-new Mazda MX-5 still appears to work also for Fiat and Alfa Romeo still an affordable open sports car.

Photo at the top of this article: the wonderful BMW Z4 Zagato Roadster Concept 2012, which also is not coming.