Germany 8er Colors - Now Online

18 months after passing the 10k cars milestone we are pleased to announce that the 8Coupe team has managed to again add more than one thousand new 8ers to the archive which on this 11-11 coincidentally holds data for 11.111 8-series cars.


The overall per annum distribution did not change significantly and we now see more than 50% archived for the production years from 1995 onwards with the maximum at near two thirds for the last production year 1999.



Percentage of archived cars by production…

A new milestone - 8.000 cars in the 8Coupe.com archives has been reached today. Passing this mark we now have knowledge of 26.1% of all produced E31´s one way or the other.

• A near linear growth rate has been maintained for more than 3 years now and on average just over 100 new 8ers were added to the archive every month.
• The 8Coupe archive currently contains 124.000 pictures, nearly 69.000 PDF files and some 10k misc files.
• We now store more than 200k files adding up to near 27 GB of data.
• Since

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Half the produced E31´s today exceed the age of 20 years. 22 months into the series production but with almost 8 years to go, the majority of 8-series Coupé´s roamed the streets worldwide. The onset of the production for the E31 was very bright but a sharp decline in demand and consequently production numbers late in 1991 reduced the output from a maximum of near 70 cars per working day to only 20 and below in the years to come.

By October 1, 1991 the distribution of cars looked like below - all…