Tod Lassa: I am here at the Detroit show, the two designers of the new BMW Z4, Julianne Blasi did the exterior design and Nadia Arnaud did the interior design. So tell me a little bit about what you are trying to achieve and how you achieve that.
Let me start with Julianne, who did the exterior.
Julianne Blasi: Well the new Z4 is now even more premium and even more elegant than the car before, it's a little bit bigger and especially the most important thing it has a hard top instead of a soft top.
Tod Lassa: What was it like to have to design a folding hard top for a car that's normally been a Roadster, Two Seat Roadster?
Julianne Blasi: Well I was looking that I keep the Roadster proportions and I want to have it as a Roadster. So I really looked at proportion and balance and that the trunk is very low and not super high, like we know it from other hard top roadster.
Tod Lassa: And Nadia tell me a little about the interior.
Nadia Arnaud: Well it goes along the same lines as what Julianne just said, it's a premium car so we really to try make the interior look high end and give it also a larger space feel, which the -- then to it actually is little bit larger than the previous Z4 we also have a little bit more head space, and also what makes this car so sporty in my eyes is the strong drive orientation that you can see on the interior in a graphical way with this big decor u-shape as well as a volume drive orientation of about 8 degrees.
Tod Lassa: Okay Julianne when I saw the car in real, a little bit earlier today I described it to myself as having a kind of a fierce surface tension, the car has a little bit of a fierce look in front, can you tell me a little bit about that.
Julianne Blasi: Well, when I designed it I was of course thinking, to design not an aggressive car but as you said a fierce car, not funny because it's roadster, it should be a little bit dynamic looking you know because it's very fast.
Tod Lassa: It is yes.
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