Just ahead of Santa Claus the 8Coupe.com team has eventually managed to finish a project long in the making.
The Vehicle Build Sheet Report (VBS-R) is filled to the brim with VIN specific unique background information that puts every conceivable statistical aspect for any given 8-series vehicle into a perspective. The information contained is not available elsewhere and by far surpasses what even the manufacturer would be able to offer. You will find precise figures for your car in relation to the…
Nearly ten years after the first steps into becoming the worldwide 8er registry and archive were made, we have received the personal registration of the 2.000th 8-series car today. The 8-series was delivered to more than 80 countries and owners from no less than 66 thereof have signed up with 8Coupe.com
The majority of cars registered are located in North America with 50% of all registrations from the US (1.008) and more than 150 from Canada. The largest number of registrations in Europe stem…
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…
Nearing 7,000 cars in the 8Coupe.com registry archive in the following is an overview of how those cars are distributed amongst the different production variants.
On average more than 35% of each variant has been archived with the largest percentages for the cars with higher intrinsic values (Alpina, CSi), later model years and North American (NA) based cars. The lowest rates are assigned to the old M70 based cars, be it with manual or automatic gearbox of which many did not survive the tides of…
