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 ...

This past weekend, RM Sotheby’s completed the sale of its 22-strong ‘Best of BMW M’ collection. Among them were the usual contenders: a 1975 2002 Turbo; a couple of M-division Z3s; a limited-edition ...

When the BMW Z1 was first shown to the public, the company had absolutely no intention of actually putting it into production. The company had generally shied away from two seater roadsters since the ...

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 ...

Rumors about a return of the Z1 and Z3 monikers have been around for quite a while, with a possible Z5 to be added to the BMW range close behind. However, none of them seemed to be making sense up ...

Manufacturers love churning out weird and wonderful concept cars to showcase new technologies, test customer interest in a new design style, or simply to let their engineers blow off some creative ...

There was a time, way back when, that the BMW Z1’s design was considered a bit avant-garde for the traditionally conservative Munich giant. Fast forward a quarter of a century and look at it now.