BMW 2004

The BMW 2004 is an upper middle class saloon built in 1973 and 1974 by BMW South Africa as the successor to the 2000 SA and 1800 SA, alongside the weaker engined BMW 1804. It used the drive train of the BMW 2000 made in Germany until 1972, a four cylinder inline engine of 1,990 cubic centimetres that gave 74 kilowatts at 5,800 revolutions a minute, joined either to a four speed manual gearbox with a central shift lever or to a three speed automatic. The four door body was built only as a saloon and was based on the Glas 1700, with the grille and indicators of the BMW 2800 CS, the twin headlights of the BMW 520 and the tail lights of the 520. In two years 1,404 cars were made, 588 of them with the automatic gearbox.