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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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The Registry Volunteer Team is pleased to announce that we have reached two milestones during the past month, namely passing the 6000 archived cars mark in November and the 20% milestone of cataloging the 30,621 8er's produced by BMW AG earlier this month.

As part of the Registry mission to collect information for future preservation efforts CC61020, a Switzerland based 840CiA was cataloged as the 6,124th 8er out of 30,621 produced thus marking the 20% threshold.

This means the archive now has at…

Effective August 8, 2010, Reinhard Wolf will become the new Global E31 Registry Agent. Mr. Wolf is assuming this responsibility from Jud Spencer, who is retiring after 8 years of service to the global BMW 8 Series community.

Mr. Spencer began his E31 journey in the late 1990’s through the purchase of multiple BMW 8 Series, including a 1991 BMW 850i 6spd and a 1994 BMW 850CSi. He took over the E31 Registry from Mr. Bert Smith, the founder, August 1, 2002. Under his 8 years of Registry…