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Originally Posted by therock
Here's a fun question I been wondering - will the ///MZ4 get the E92 M3's 400+ hp engine when it comes out maybe next year? From my test drive the car is already a monster but you can't ever have enough HP's right  |
Almost a guarantee it will
I think thats the secret car alot of us are anticipating. As with the Z3 version, BMW kept the lower HP engine that the e36 M3 ran (which was the M3 of the time when the Z3 M Roadster was released). Then when the E46 M3 with 333hp came out, BMW offered that very same engine in the Z3 one year later, giving a tremendous amount of power. So by that timeline, the current Z4 M roadster has the 333hp engine from the current e46 M3, but when the E90m3 with the anticipated V8 engine arrives we should get that engine a year later.
(The trick to all this is that its really hard to anticipate what BMW will do by precedent because sometimes they will randomly go on a new course.)