You Can Now Buy A Handsome E89 BMW Z4 For As Little As £8000

The E89 Z4 may not be as good to drive as its predecessor, but as we've explored recently, there's plenty to like
You Can Now Buy A Handsome E89 BMW Z4 For As Little As £8000

Last month, we welcomed a new addition to the CT office garage: a tidy E89 BMW Z4 35i owned by Gabz. Yep, the guy we like to poke fun at for selling good cars and replacing them with VW Polos (seriously, he’s done it twice) now has a wicked twin-turbo, inline-six-powered roadster that’s damn near impossible to mock.

Granted, the E89 is more of a cruiser than an out-and-out sports car, but so long as you accept this, the second-gen Z4 is a tempting used buy. Particularly now prices of the earliest models are starting to dip below £8000.

You Can Now Buy A Handsome E89 BMW Z4 For As Little As £8000

That kind of money will bag you a 23i with a 2.5-litre inline-six, but if you want some reasonable straight-line performance, examples of the 30i and 35i start at just over £10,000. There’s little difference in values between the two, so it’d be a smart move to opt for the 35i, particularly given the tuning potential of that twin-turbo ‘N54’ engine. But, we thought we’d pluck this 30i out of the classifieds, as the earlier ‘N52’ N/A straight-six has its own appeal.

You Can Now Buy A Handsome E89 BMW Z4 For As Little As £8000

You’re looking at 254bhp from the 3.0-litre stuffed in the E89’s curvaceous front-end, allowing for a 0-60mph time under six seconds. Sure, the 35i manages the benchmark sprint closer to the five second mark than the six, but the superior soundtrack has to be worth a little sacrifice in performance, right?

Folding hard top up or down, the E89 Z4 is a handsome car
Folding hard top up or down, the E89 Z4 is a handsome car

Our classifieds pick is also one of the few 30i manuals out there, and while it weighs in at a reasonably hefty £14,000, it’s only clocked 25,000 miles. The advert states that the car has a full service history, but little else - there’s a frustrating lack of detail here, but a reasonable set of pictures to inspect, at least.

Would you be tempted to have a Z4 30i over the 35i? Or would your £14k go elsewhere? To the comments section!

Comments

TurboToddler (Straight-five)

My inner boy racer would probably get a WRX or STI over a Z4

04/08/2018 - 07:30 |
24 | 4

My inner hair dresser would probably buy the Z4 over a scooby 😂

04/08/2018 - 07:45 |
24 | 4
Nishant Dash

@gabz 😂

04/08/2018 - 07:51 |
4 | 0
Niko Ala-Rämi 🇫🇮

Lol here in finland it costs 4 times more

04/08/2018 - 08:04 |
0 | 0
TheMindGarage

I think the Z4 is somewhat underrated amongst petrolheads. It fills an important gap between the cheapest sports cars (MX-5/GT86) and the serious machines (Cayman/Boxster, F-Type)

04/08/2018 - 08:07 |
50 | 0

Wait isn’t Audi TT marketed at exactly that? Between the GT86 and the Cayman

04/08/2018 - 09:04 |
8 | 4
Tomislav Celić

Here for the same price you bearly get a previous gen

04/08/2018 - 09:08 |
4 | 4

tužno

04/08/2018 - 10:19 |
0 | 0

Same in Germany

04/08/2018 - 11:56 |
0 | 0
DL🏁

Such an underrated car. And it still looks newer than latest Subaru models

04/08/2018 - 09:33 |
12 | 0
NotARealRoadTest

The newer Z4 is a fine looking thing, but I am more of a fan of the old Z4 Coupe, both visually and generally

04/08/2018 - 11:29 |
0 | 0

The Z4 coupe was an m car, so obviously it’s better

04/08/2018 - 16:00 |
0 | 0
SickSkids

Timeless design

04/08/2018 - 12:36 |
2 | 0
Anonymous

Is it available in the US? As I am here.

04/08/2018 - 14:26 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

It is available in the us market

04/08/2018 - 16:42 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

No i can’t, i can barely buy Z3 for 7000

04/08/2018 - 15:16 |
0 | 0

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