John has a BCom Degree with a background in corporate Marketing. He has been in automotive journalism since 2014 and has worked at CarBuzz since Feb 2024. John has written for Magneto, the BMW Car ...

The BMW Z1 was the first of the Z series. It came with unique sliding doors and removable plastic body panels in the 1990s, and it came at the right time. It was the year Mazda rolled out the MX-5 ...

A futuristic concept car that somehow made it into production, the Z1 was a BMW like no other. Although it went down as an insanely expensive experiment, it’s still weirdly fascinating 35 years after ...

BMW has a new Z4 roadster out soon, and there's one thing it definitely does not have: possibly the coolest doors ever put into production, which were on the BMW Z1. Those doors dropped down and ...

Back in 1985, BMW decided to let a team of talented designers and engineers run free in a sort of avant-garde "think tank," known as BMW Technik, located several miles from the company headquarters in ...

It's an odd one, the Z1. With just 8,000 examples built and only around 1,500 of those sold outside Germany, it's comparatively rare. It was also forward-thinking, futuristic - the 'Z' literally ...

For all the innovations that were offered by the BMW Z1, the roadster remains relatively unknown North America. The plastic-bodied model had a number of tricks up its sleeve, including drop-down doors ...

When the automaker unveiled the first running prototype in August 1986, customer support was overwhelmingly positive and BMW gave the project the green light. The Z1 was not another comfortable ...