We rarely had the pleasure of seeing the BMW Z8 involved in tuning projects, but now, the technicians from Wheels Boutique company have decided to spicy up the car`s personality with a new set of wheels from HRE tuner.

We are looking here at an exquisite roadster which used to turn a lot of heads around 17 years ago, the model coming on the market in 2000 and being appreciated as BMW`s most exquisite and fastest roadster on the roads.

Now that it has received the HRE wheels from the prestigious wheel tuner, the BMW Z8 looks extremely appealing and aggressive at the same time. Besides that, there weren’t any serious modifications that would alter its stock personality.

In the engine department, the model came out with a massive 4.9-liter 32 valve V8 engine, with a killer performance of 400 horsepower and 500 Nm of torque, which for those times was quite impressive.

This translated into a mind-blowing sprint for a roadster. We are looking here at just 4.7 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h, at a top speed of 250 km/h, which could be raised later on to 300 km/h.

The model didn’t come cheap at all, coming with a price tag of $128,000 for which you could easily get a Porsche 911 Turbo or even better, an E39 M5. Even so, it was and still is a fun to drive convertible, which highlights BMW`s ultimate benchmark in terms of engineering.

You can find out more about the car in the media gallery distributed by Wheels Boutique tuner below!

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BMW’s Z8 has been out of the picture for so long most of us forgot about it. It may have had something to do with how “not that good” it was, but still, it’s faded away.

The Germans at Senner Tuning seem to still have a fresh memory of the top of the line BMW roadster of a decade ago and they’ve decided it could be updated.

Which is exactly what they’ve done with their latest project, a tune-up for a previously modern roadster that wanted to be old-school.

Senner Tuning’s new kit starts off properly with a new set of wheels. We’re talking 19 inch Schwert SC1 alloys that wrap around new Racing Gold varnished brake calipers.

The better stopping power, along with some extra grip will also help the BMW Z8 go faster since it’s now wearing Continental Sport Contact 5P “shoes”.

No stiletto’s here but proper running gear with sizes 255/40R19 up front and 285/35R19 at the back.

And then we get closer to the action, Senner Tuning fitted the Z8 roadster with a coilover kit, new front strut bar and adjustable rebound rate.

Cherry on top time; the 5.0 liter V8 engine we originally saw in the E39 M5 isn’t swapped out but improved upon. Thanks to a sports air filter, a custom exhaust system and an ECU remap, the output is now 450 horsepower and 395 lb-ft of torque.

Pretty nifty, especially when you consider the whole package is available for as little as €14.900 in Europe (roughly 24.500 USD).

If you’re thinking about it, stop, a second hand Z8 won’t be yours for less than 100.000 dollars if it’s to be in running order.

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The BMW Z8 (its codename E52) is a sports car produced by German automaker BMW from 2000 to 2003. It is a convertible with two-seats with front engine and rear longitudinal.
The interior of the BMW Z8 was designed by Bruno Amatino Mike Ninic, David Carp designed the steering wheel. A supervised by Adrian van Hooydonk and David Carp in close consultation with the designers and Fisker Ninic study under the name Z 07 was already at the 1997 Tokyo Motor Show in 1998 and shown in Detroit.

The immense popularity of the BMW prototype led to the decision to produce a limited production model. It built BMW Z8 in 5703 units, about half of which were exported to the U.S.

The BMW Z8 was only appointed with full facilities. These included air bags, alarm, ABS, cruise control, air conditioning, electric steering column longitudinal adjustment, speaker telephone, navigation system, full leather interior, radio, hardtop, hardtop, alloy wheels, automatic headlight range control, headlamp washers, xenon lights, etc. The price was initially 235,000 DM or 122,700 euros at the end of the construction period.

2002 saw the Alpina version, namely BMW Z8 Roadster by Alpina with V8 engine. The difference is mainly due to the production vehicle in a higher-torque V8 engine with 280 kW and an automatic transmission to make it for the American and Japanese market more interesting. This vehicle was sold as the BMW Z8 E52 by BMW AG in the United States. By the end of 2003 a total of 450 Alpina Roadster V8 in the United States were delivered. The remaining 105 units left for Europe and Japan.

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