A lot's been said about the styling of the Z3 Coupe. It's clear this car polarized opinion at launch, and continues to do so. All we know it that it makes a heck of a race car. Our Z3 is the winningest one in the Grand Am Cup, having been campaigned by the Villaconn team from 2000 to 2003. It's well prepared, has a great race history, and is set to win in 2004.

If you're interested, below are two Quicktime videos. The first is BMW's design chief Chris Bangle waxing about the Z3 Coupe in a rather unusual mix of English and German:

The second is BMW's launch video for the M3 Coupe, the body of which is shared by 2.8L Coupe: