How many?

Any more info on this subject. Like tomscott said how many are left registered or still on the road. Going on the how many left website. Non M Z4 coupes are showing in the UK excluding Northern Ireland is around 270!
 
I've owned my MR since March 2016 and have yet to see a single other MC or MR on the road since. I only use it at weekends but even still, these are rare motors!
 
Siener2 said:
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)"

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.

As far as the SA numbers go there seems to have been a different trend than in the rest of the world - globally there were slightly more M Roadsters (5239 according to BMW M Registry) than M Coupes. In SA, despite weather that is infinitely more suitable for open top motoring than (most of) the rest of the world, more M coupes were sold than M roadsters. The reason is IMHO simple: crime. An open car is obviously a soft target for a carjacking and much easier to break into even with the top up. Ergo the coupe outsold the roadster here by a factor of more than 2 to 1.

Brilliant! I've been trying to source this info for a while now. happy to know i've got one of the 206 that came to SA .
 
ocrx8 said:
I've owned my MR since March 2016 and have yet to see a single other MC or MR on the road since. I only use it at weekends but even still, these are rare motors!

Mine will be out from 08:00 tomorrow off to the Pistonheads meet at Bicnacre (white elms garden centre) :D
 
Adam D said:
ocrx8 said:
I've owned my MR since March 2016 and have yet to see a single other MC or MR on the road since. I only use it at weekends but even still, these are rare motors!

Mine will be out from 08:00 tomorrow off to the Pistonheads meet at Bicnacre (white elms garden centre) :D

I might join you! Didn’t know about this meeting, till what time do people stay usually?
 
Gustavo7 said:
Adam D said:
ocrx8 said:
I've owned my MR since March 2016 and have yet to see a single other MC or MR on the road since. I only use it at weekends but even still, these are rare motors!

Mine will be out from 08:00 tomorrow off to the Pistonheads meet at Bicnacre (white elms garden centre) :D

I might join you! Didn’t know about this meeting, till what time do people stay usually?

Arrival at 9am for breakfast - usually hang around until 10:30-11
 
Adam D said:
Gustavo7 said:
Adam D said:
Mine will be out from 08:00 tomorrow off to the Pistonheads meet at Bicnacre (white elms garden centre) :D

I might join you! Didn’t know about this meeting, till what time do people stay usually?

Arrival at 9am for breakfast - usually hang around until 10:30-11

I drove past you guys after visiting the butchers shop, I was impressed by the gathering 8)
Rob
 
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