The BMW Z1 is the first of the BMW Z-Series roadsters to be produced in just a few years, from 1989 to 1991. It was a limited-series car with only 8,000 units produced. It’s a very rare car that was never clear - is it a production car or a concept car? But the BMW Z1 is fun not only because it is extremely rare. In the mid-1980s, BMW began to think about a new segment of the car. Almost no one was producing something like that at the time. The idea was to revive the BMW roadster family, for which the German carmaker was famous even before World War II. At the time, BMW had only one convertible - the BMW E30 Convertible, but it was clear that small two-seater roadsters had great potential. Just then, the legendary Mazda MX-5 and the sporty Lotus Elan models appeared. So in 1988, at the same time, the BMW Z1 was introduced to the market and the car impressed everyone with its futuristic design! The sloping front end, the headlights typical of sports cars, the upright rear part of the body and of course the stunning doors that fold vertically into the body, thus opening the car's interior to the passengers. To understand what an unrealistic design car is the BMW Z1, it is enough to look at the prevailing angular conservative design BMW E30 or Mercedes-Benz 124. True, the interior of the BMW Z1 was not so stunning - the dashboard was a remarkable rework of the BMW E30 series. But this is understandable, after all, the car was semi-conceptual. The Z1 was one of the first BMWs to feature a multi-link rear suspension. The only engine that came with the Z1 is also borrowed from the BMW E30 325i version, a 2.5-liter six-cylinder engine mated to a 5-speed manual transmission. Although this fun BMW has been in production for just a few years, it has successfully paved the way for the hugely popular BMW Z3. The latter was a fully-fledged serial model and although it did not have an electric door, it did have an “M” version.