{"id":3652,"date":"2022-08-25T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T09:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:07:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:07:26","slug":"the-wunder-women-behind-the-bmw-z4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/the-wunder-women-behind-the-bmw-z4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wunder Women behind the BMW Z4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you look at the car you should not be able to see whether it was designed by a woman or a man.\u201d \u2013 Juliane Blasi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

When the second generation of the BMW Z4 (E89) was unveiled in 2009, it was a smash hit with buyers and car reviewers drawn to its fierce macho lines. At the same time, the release of the roadster caused a stir as it was the first BMW automobile to be designed by two women.<\/p>\n

Juliane Blasi and Nadya Arnaout delivered another huge surprise as they were considered very young \u2013 32 years old and 37 years old respectively at that time \u2013 to shoulder the responsibility for the design of such an important car.<\/p>\n

\"BMW<\/p>\n

As we celebrate International Women’s Day, let’s look at this dynamic duo who have proven that neither gender nor age has anything to do with delivering an iconic automotive design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The release of the second generation of the BMW Z4 in 2009 caused a stir when it was revealed that it was designed by two women, Juliane Blasi and Nadya Arnaout.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-article3.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,153,1],"tags":[13,329,72,33,73,184,237,249,34,49,245,231,51,238,194],"class_list":["post-3652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-infotainment","category-stories","tag-bmw","tag-bmw-z4","tag-cabriolet","tag-connected","tag-convertible","tag-history","tag-international-womens-day","tag-iwd","tag-stories","tag-voices","tag-women-designers","tag-women-history","tag-women-in-automotive","tag-womens-history-month","tag-z4-roadster"],"acf":{"post_image_or_video":"image","post_image":3653,"post_video":null,"post_tag":"#STORIES","post_meta":[{"meta_text":"6 MAR 2024"},{"meta_text":"2 min READ"}]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5925,"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions\/5925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdmotors.sg\/the-drive-hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}