Of all the BMW Z cars, the Zukunft tag is arguably most fittingly applied to the Z1, a car that even now, thirty years after it first went on sale, looks fresh and modern. The Z1 used a skeletal frame on which the body panels were mounted, making it incredibly stiff, banishing scuttle shake and giving the car superb handling. The body panels were made of plastic, mounted on a substructure of hot-dipped galvanised pressed steel and the seams were continuously zinc welded, adding 25 per cent to body stiffness. The side panels and doors were made from General Electric's Xenoy injection-cast thermoplastic, the bonnet and boot lid were glass-reinforced plastic and the whole body was painted in a special flexible lacquer.

State of the art thinking was evident in every aspect of the car's design. Those magnificent doors were operated by toothed belts which lowered both the window and door at the touch of a button. It could be driven with the soft-top closed or open; windows closed or open; or doors open or closed and, with everything open, the fun Z1 is said to feel just like a four-wheeled motorcycle! The car used the innovative Z-axle suspension set-up at the rear and also featured some clever aerodynamics, the front being designed to create a high-pressure zone ahead of the wheels to induce downforce whilst the aerofoil-shaped rear silencer helped to decrease turbulence and lift. The engine is one of BMW's finest in the form of the M20B25 unit taken from the E30 325i. The Z1 is special in every sense of the word, it's special to look at, to sit in and to drive and importantly, as the years have passed, people have clearly started to appreciate it as prices have soared. This is a marvellous little car with almost universal appeal and is, without a doubt, one of BMW's finest moments of the past thirty years.

This particular beauty is one of the rare cars to leave the German domestic market. Believed to be one of less than 100 cars delivered to The Netherlands were it remained in collections. Because of the dutch system of kilometer registration by the government the milage is guaranteed.

Two blemishes are noticeable on the car some scratching on the bonnet and a crack at the rear wheel arch. The rest of the car is beautiful condition.
The Eismann exhaust adds a throaty sound and enginestrud adds more stiffness

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