850i/Ci 6spds, 1991-1993... 200 (archive)

Thanks Stan, I'm familiar with the 10 percent value but I think its getting tangled-up here and at least doubling the number of estimated US 850i/Ci 6 speeds. Using the same BMW NA and BMW CCA numbers:

There were 4,272 US 850s sold of which 200 were CSi's and therefore 6 speeds (160 in '94 and 40 in '95). The remaining 4,072 850s are non-CSi. You are correct in that 10 percent or less of all 850s were six speeds, but you've included the CSi 6 speeds... 10%=((200+200)/4,272). Once you remove the CSi 6 speeds, only five percent of 850i/Ci or less were 6 speeds, so about 200 or less (200/4072). Make sense?

To make matters worse, I've seen estimates of as few as 1% but can't figure that one out. I do know that I'm more likely to see a CSi in the Bay Area than a 6spd 850i/Ci. It's not a great sampling but in the last year I've seen 5 CSi's but only one other 6 speed.

Greg K

Greg,
The best info I've seen to date (but two different numbers, from my PMB archives):

[From Paul Brown]
"According to Mr. William R. Rudolph, National Customer Relations Representative, E31 sales in the 1991 through 1997 models years totaled 6,484"

[From Bert Smith]
"In Bob Roemer's Roundel column a couple of issues ago, he stated that BMW had built 36,600 8 Series coupes, and that 23,000 were equipped with the V12. Recently, I e-mailed BMWCCA to have them add
my E-mail to my registry information. I also
included a question to Bob Roemer, asking how many E31s were sold in the U.S. The numbers he replied with are: 6,108 total sales, 4,272 V-12s, and 1,836 V-8s."

So we may have around 400 6 speeds in the U.S.

Stan C.

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