this whole topic could do with a bit of disciplined statistical analysis. Lots of numbers of cars above; lots of room to miscontrue the meanings they hold. Wikipedia has the total Z4M production at 4,275 coupes (with 1815 of those in the USA/North America (might include Canada)) and 5,070 roadsters (3042 in US/NA). So, working backwards, there should be 2,460 M coupes outside of the US. We should assume that all US cars were LHD. So Taz recognises 1,055 M Coupes in RHD globally? All RHD coupes are extra-US (we should assume) and the table on page 1 (was that from BMW?) shows 588 M Coupes in the UK (not sure if that includes Ireland), giving us 467 RHD M Coupes in the "rest of the world" - i.e. not US/Canada and not UK. (side thought: not many in Germany then? looks a bit odd...). So the [BMW] table for UK cars might not be completely flawed as was suspected earlier in the thread. I recognise that Taz is working to check those numbers by (I'm guessing manually) remove the non-UK cars and seeing what is left so we might yet see some divergence betweent he BMW UK table and reality.
But I don't have the database, Taz does, so it's just my 2p worth.
My interest is in the M coupe numbers; perhaps the standard Coupe numbers could also be reconciled in a similar way?
I can see that the numbers do not cross-check precisely (Wikipedia vs Taz's database) but they are not much out from a statistical perspective - it doesn't look like either set of numbers are out by 20% for example, maybe more like 1% or thereabouts.
I agree with starting at 001 not 000 but hey, that's what we're working with.
I'm also not 100% comfortable that Wikipedia lists its global M Coupe numbers source as BMW Car Magazine.... whilst I've no reason to distrust the magazine, it's hardly as authoritative and you might hope is it?! Especially as a lot of what goes into magazines is somewhat biased as another current thread seems to show... Taz, your database is from a more authoritative source I'm guessing?
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