It’s hard to warrant owning a sports car. Besides the fact that they’re typically two-seaters with little regard for practical considerations such as luggage space, they’re also built to be driven with gusto – an increasingly difficult endeavour on our crowded, potholed roads.
The Z4 fits the sports car bill more overtly than its more corpulent stablemate. It looks the fast and wieldy part, with more muscular haunches and wider tracks than its predecessor, endowing the two-seater with a poised and planted look. The profile is pure and purist sports car: a long, probing nose and short, pert rear embrace the soft-top’s low roofline, accentuating the slim glass area and a raked windscreen. The rear-on view is compact and precise, with dual large-bore exhausts jutting from the boldly presented diffuser, while the boot gets an integrated spoiler.
By comparison, the sDrive 20i’s 140kW and 320Nm seem almost too modest, even if the four-cylinder model weighs about 90kg less. And indeed, you have to work a little harder at maintaining the roadster’s momentum – but that’s actually a good thing. In the pass itself, third and fourth gears are in high rotation as you blitz the Beemer through the tight and twisty bits. You can drive the roadster hard, exploring its limits, without requiring the supersonic speeds – and superhuman driving talents – typical of more powerful machinery.
To shrug off the effects of that corpulent weight, the M850i gets an all-new, high-revving twin-turbo V8, mounted low and far back under that expansive bonnet. It certainly has the right stuff: 390kW and a whopping 750Nm to be precise. Bains Kloof is not usually the ideal playground for a big and heavy two-door machine. But the M850i tackles the treacherous turns and sudden hairpins, the blind corners and chassis-twisting camber changes, with regal aplomb.
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