The E31 Registry at 8Coupe.com is closed for the holidays. We will return Saturday, 10-January-2009. All new registrations and registry inquiries are offline.
BMW AG announced today that due to deteriorating market conditions and lack of profitability in the new model line, the Concept CS (the new 8 Series) is cancelled.
Our take? In light of the upcoming global recession, energy conservation, and new technologies emerging to power our automobiles, BMW AG made a smart decision in cancelling this program. Perhaps someday the 8 Series will return under better circumstances. Producing a new 8 Series under…
Public Registry for Wrecks Is Back on Track By Christopher Jensen September 22, 2008 New York Times
On Monday a federal judge ruled in favor of consumer groups and gave the government a deadline to finally implement a law Congress passed in 1992.
Under the ruling, insurance companies, salvage yards and junkyards will be required — by the end of next March — to provide information on vehicles so badly damaged by floods, fires or crashes that they are written off. That information is to go into a…
Bern, Switzerland -ClubE31.com and 8er.ch are pleased to announce their merger, effective Monday, 28-July-2008 to form 8er.org, creating a new organization dedicated to the BMW 8 Series (E31) with over 1,000 members.
This merger represents the oldest and newest 8er owner expertise of two major E31 enthusiast communities in an effort to preserve and support BMW AG’s 1990’s era design masterpiece.: The BMW 8 Series. The vision is simple: create and nurture the best worldwide functional E31…
The Concept CS Coupe is confirmed to be the basis for the next BMW 8 Series. According to BMW CCA columnist Bob Roemer in his July 2008 "Heard on the Strabe"column, BMW will be launching the new coupe as a two-door coupe/convertible and four-door coupe.
"BMW is working on three cars that are the basis for the next 8 Series. Code-named GT2 (two-door coupe and convertible) and GT4 (four-door coupe) they are luxurious, lightweight models based on the Concept CS Coupe, the swoopy show car BMW…
Through the key help of a German 8er owner, the exterior colors for all 225 USA-spec 850CSi's are now 100% identified. The last remaining unidentified USA-spec 850CSi (chassis CD00002) with code 490 (Special Order Color) has now been identified as FJORDGRAU METALLIC (code 310).
Prior to this revelation, 224 of the 225 USA-spec 850CSi's were positively identified. One other USA-spec 850CSi also came in FJORDGRAU METALLIC (code 310), chassis CD00226 (see Note 1), and was long thought to be the…
Progress was made to narrow the list 8er-specific option codes from the BMW 8 Series Inventory Project. There are at least 175 option codes for the E31 platform. Each option code will have the English and German language details.
The last update regarding this work and its challenges was reported 3-October-2007 in this article (read more).
The same challenges from last year are still evident, although an important first step was establishing the core options codes used for the E31. It is this…
Born: 8 December 1932 - Wuppertal, Germany Died: 17 March 2008 - Munich, Germany Family: Married (one son deceased)
Resume:
1956-70 - head of design department, NSU Motorenwerke AG ;
1971-76 - designer, Audi-NSU Auto Union AG
1976-90 - chief designer, BMW AG, 1976-90
Claus Luthe passed away on 17 March 2008. He was 75 years old. Mr. Luthe was the chief designer at BMW from 1976-1990 where he supervised the design team that developed the 3 Series, 5 Series, 7 Series, and 8…
The Vehicle Build Sheet Report (VBS-R - an expanded version of the factory build sheet) is stil in development. Current plans are to make this report available during the 4th Quarter of 2008.
New enhancements are being incorporated into this report based on feedback from 8er owners.
We anticipate having an example available for registered member viewing in May, 2008. Feedback for this report will be welcomed as we continue to finalize this report.
Japan (JP) BMW 840/850/850CSi colors are now online. Presented are the final audited numbers.
For Japan, blue is the number one exterior color group with 28.29% of all 2,513 JP market version 8 Series (code 807). built. Overall, there were 25 different exterior colors applied to the JP E31's.
All BMW E31's built for the Japan market were Left Hand Drive (LHD). Having a German LHD vehicle is considered a status symbol in Japan.
