It’s easy to forget sports cars exist in a world where crossovers, SUVs, and trucks seem to dominate the roads today. While companies like Porsche and BMW butter their bread with the fattening profits from SUVs and crossovers, they continue to build the sports cars enthusiasts love, like the 718 Cayman S and the Z4 M40i. A new video pits these two pristine performance machines against each other in a pair of drag races.
The BMW Z4 M40i features the brand’s turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six engine. It makes 340 horsepower and 500 Newton-meters (368 pound-feet) of torque, which routes through a ZF eight-speed gearbox to the rear wheels. It weighs 1,580 kilograms (3,483 pounds).
