BMW Z4 GT3

The BMW Z4 GT3 was a customer racing car that BMW Motorsport built to the FIA GT3 rules on the basis of the BMW Z4 (E89), presented in early March 2010. Its steel body was made on the same line at the Regensburg plant as the road car and then converted by hand, with a welded-in safety cell and bumpers, bonnet, roof, wings and rear wing in carbon fibre reinforced plastic, which brought the weight to about 1,190 kg and took around 700 working hours per car. It was first powered by a naturally aspirated 4.0 litre V8 from the BMW M3 with about 353 kW (480 PS), and from August 2010 by a bored-out 4.4 litre version of the M3 GTS engine with about 379 kW (515 PS), driving the rear axle through a sequential six-speed gearbox with steering wheel paddles. It was the only GT3 car with electronic stability control. It cost 298,000 euros in 2010, and 29 had been sold by January 2012. Schubert Motorsport won the 2011 Dubai 24 Hours with one, and the Z4 GTE followed in 2013.