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Re: How many?

Post by Siener2 » Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:34 pm

Siener2 wrote:This subject fascinates me. The site BMW M Registry gives the following production numbers for the M Coupe:
"How many versions of the E86 M Coupe were produced?
BMW M offered three distinct versions of the E86 M Coupe: European-spec models in both left-hand drive and right-hand drive configurations, plus a single North American-spec version.
How many of each version were produced?
ECE (LHD): 1,652 produced from 4/06 through 7/08 (Plus 65 pre-production examples produced 10/05 through 3/06)
ECE (RHD): 1,054 produced from 4/06 through 6/08 (Plus 1 pre-production example produced 2/06)
NA (LHD): 1,801 produced from 4/06 through 8/08 (Plus 14 pre-production examples produced 10/05 through 4/06)"

Note that the above production numbers come to 4507 worldwide, which is 232 more than the 4275 number usually quoted (and that currently appears on Wikipedia without a proper reference). The North American figure on BMW M Registry is only 14 lower than the Wikipedia number.

If the info Superbow got from BMW UK (see previous page) is correct, then there are (1054-578)= 476 RHD M Coupes outside the UK. These should mostly be in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Japan. I therefore emailed an enquiry to BMW South Africa and received a very friendly phone call in reply today. According to BMW SA, a total of 206 M Coupes and only 95 M Roadsters landed up in this country. Which means the Antipodeans, Japan and everyone else must have shared the remaining (476-206)=270 M Coupes.

To the forum members in Australia and New Zealand - your cars are even rarer than in the rest of the world. I would love to get accurate figures though, so see what you can find out.
Noticed today that my question has been partially answered in this thread - seems there were 103 Z4MC's originally exported to Australia.

The 1054 right hand drive M Coupes were therefore distributed as follows:
UK = 578
South Africa = 206
Australia = 103
New Zealand, Japan and everybody else driving on the left hand side of the road =167

Any Kiwi's on here who are willing to get the equivalent info from BMW New Zealand? Or are you all too busy watching the RWC? :poke:
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Re: How many?

Post by flimper » Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:41 pm

I have the figures as UK 588 out of a total of 1055
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Re: How many?

Post by Siener2 » Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:55 pm

flimper wrote:I have the figures as UK 588 out of a total of 1055
My numbers agree with your 1055 total (if the 1 x pre production example is included).
Do you have any confirmation for the 588 in the UK? I got the 578 figure off this post on the first page of this thread.
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Re: How many?

Post by flimper » Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:35 am

Interlagos Blue 144
Sapphire Black 120
Silver Grey 72
Imola Red 56
Ruby Black 54
Carbon Black 52
Titanium Silver 26
Alpine White 18
Midnight Blue 17
Monaco Blue 14
Sepang Bronze 10
Phoenix Yellow 3
Space Grey 2
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Re: How many?

Post by Siener2 » Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:01 am

Thx flimper, that is great info. Do you perhaps have a reference to the source?
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Re: How many?

Post by flimper » Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:44 am

Not sure, but will be on here somewhere or other
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Re: How many?

Post by Taz » Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:02 pm

i have a copy of an email from BMW uk, unfortunately on another laptop, will post later

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Re: How many?

Post by Spud » Sun Dec 25, 2011 2:34 am

Old Taz has been searching and searching for that laptop...

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Re: How many?

Post by Taz » Sun Dec 25, 2011 9:57 am

i found the email but i can't post it on here, its a table and it doesn't post well, may be the mods could post it?

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Re: How many?

Post by bluestreak56 » Sun Dec 25, 2011 10:52 am

Can you take a screenshot of it and upload it as a picture Taz?
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Re: How many?

Post by Taz » Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:28 am

bluestreak56 wrote:Can you take a screenshot of it and upload it as a picture Taz?
maybe, i will try tomorrow

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Re: How many?

Post by Spud » Mon Dec 26, 2011 9:45 pm

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Re: How many?

Post by Taz » Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:09 pm

ok, tried and failed, how can i copy an email and paste it here?

its text and a table

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Re: How many?

Post by bluestreak56 » Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:14 am

Taz I can paste it up for you if you like. Will ping you my email.
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Re: How many?

Post by bluestreak56 » Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:08 am

All thanks to Tax for this.

It's a little small but here you go:

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