BMW 8 Series Registry > Inventory Project

Thursday, March 11, 2010

2005 BMW 8 Series Inventory Project

Vision: Consoldiate and aggregate BMW 8 Series production data including Alpina B12 5.0/5.7 and Special Editions.

Objectives:

Inventory 100% of the 30,621 8 Series produced from 1989-99 by end of year (EOY) 2005 with a specific build sheet - Completed 10/2006
Catalog 25% (7,655) of the 30,621 8er's produced by 2010 with pictures, information, or sales data - In Progress

This project cotinues to be an enormous undertaking. The long-range plan is to have the information available to the community via 8Coupe.com.

Team

Key people assisting (with our thanks!) in the inventory project are:

Dick Baars (Netherlands)
Tom Carter/Wuffer (Canada)
Steve Castle (USA)
Tyrone Davoodian (USA)
Kees @ M5 Board (Sweden)
Fabrice Dray (France)
Pierre Goffinet (Belgium)
Theo Hoffs (Australia)
Chris Knauer/Ckjumbo (USA)
Terje Nordhus (Norway)
Peter Rice (UK)
Tony Smisek (Germany)
Carl Tsigakis (Norway)
Reinhard Wolf (Germany)
Fatih Aloglu (Turkey)
An anonymous cast of individuals (you know who you are)

Next Steps

Aggregate the data - Completed
Continue the auditing process - Completed
Populate the new database(s) - In progress
Prepare the information for public consumption - In progress

Timeline

Month/Year

Activity

07/2009

Developed VBS-R beta v0.3; owners evaluation in progress

Turkey E31 Owner joins Registry Team

4,497 8er's cataloged worldwide

05/2009

Alpina B12 Coupe Registry web pages designed

Dinan 850 Twin Turbo (TT) Register launched

4,221 8er's cataloged worldwide

09/2008

Developed VBS-R beta v0.2

New online database schema completed

12/2007

Created expanded build sheet beta (VBS-R v0.1)

Initial global 8er Exterior/Interior color combinations summary launched online

03/2007

Color data audit completed

Exterior/Interior color summary for global 8er's launched online

10/2006

100% of 8er's inventoried

Overall, a two year, four month effort

All 30,621 8's inventoried with a build sheet for each individual car

12/2005

62% of 8er's inventoried - EOY 2005

19,128 8's inventoried

07/2005

All 7,803 M60/62 840's inventoried

55% of 8er's inventoried

16,841 8's inventoried

02/2005

All 7,232 NA 8er's inventoried

12/2004

Formally formed project and audacious goal to catalog all worldwide E31's

50% of 8er's inventoried - EOY 2004

All 1,510 S70 850CSi's inventoried

15,310 8's inventoried

06/2004

Informally began with North America (NA) focus

All NA M62 840CiA and M73 850CiA inventoried

Special Notes

Alpina B12's (as of November 2009)

B12 5.0 - 39.1% of the BMW/Alpina build sheets are matched to an Alpina B12 5.0:
- Identified 93 of the 97 BMW/Alpina build sheets
- Matched 37 B12 5.0's with a BMW build sheet
- Identified 56 B12 5.0's with the BMW Alpina Build Number (1 through 97)

B12 5.7 - 89.5% of the BMW/Alpina build sheets are matched to an Alpina B12 5.7:
- Identified 55 of the 57 BMW/Alpina build sheets
- Matched 51 B12 5.7's with a BMW build sheet
- Identified 57 B12 5.7's with the Alpina Build Number (1 through 57) - Completed

M73 850CiA - An urban legend is circulating that the last 12 1999 M73 850CiA's built were directed to the Middle East as special Alpina versions. This is not true.
- The last 12 cars began with chassis CC41885, built 28-April-1999 for the Middle East and ended 11 cars later with chassis CC41896, built 11-May-1999 for the Germany market.
- Of these last 12, 7 went to the Middle East, of which 6 were Platinum editions (not Alpina-based); 4 went to Germany, and 1 went to the Netherlands.
- However, there were Alpina-based M73 850CiA's built for the Middle East, but Alpina denies their existence. Several of these cars are now identified and validated.

BMW 830Ci

All 18 prototype 830Ci's (auto and 6spd manual) are identified with a specific build sheet
These developmental vehicles were built in calendar year 1992

Japan Individuals (M60/M62 840CiA's)

Special packaged car for the Japan market
Identified 298 official M62 840's, 1 unofficial = 299
There is 1 M60 840 protoype (possibly 1 more to make 2)

Platinum Edition (M73 850CiA's)

Special packaged car for the Middle Eastern market
Identified 59 M73 850CiA's