Aggregated E90/E92 M3 Production Stats (North America)

Technic wrote  

The E46 M3 sold almost 2x the E92/3 M3 numbers in the USA alone, and that was without a Sedan. Considering the global economic meltdown, it is understandable but nevertheless disappointing.

I think that this will be the last of the "affordable" M3 as BMW will continue to push the M3/M4 to a price bracket where it simply does not belong, IMO. The closer the M3 gets to the 911 in price the less attractive it will become.

Great points.

Just so I understand. LCI is for anything manufactured after 2009?

signes wrote

Correct re: 2nd page, E90 only. If I can find out how to get access to BMW ASAP I will add, otherwise maybe SickFinga can chime in? He posted a lot of the data I put into these sheets.

Time to update

Jesal@IND wrote

Love it!

My E90 LCI seems pretty unique being a 2009, manual with no Navigation.

Only 5,867 E90s in North America?! Thats nothing!

Anyone know how many E36 M3 Sedans were produced?

4574 - Manual
4036 - Automatic

KEYON wrote

Great info, thanks so much posting!

Can't wait to see the in-depth look for E92s

Sean@PSI wrote

I would love to see the individual color #s for E92.

esquire wrote

looking forward to the colors list for the e92 - especially individual color breakdown

RingMeister01 wrote

+1

MA///M3 wrote

yes me too. Like to see how many space grays e92's there are out there.

Jive wrote

Missed that. Thanks for the clarification. Looking forward to the E92 numbers!

MY13E92M3 wrote

+1

Quoting you so you get the notification message

Technic wrote

The E46 M3 sold almost 2x the E92/3 M3 numbers in the USA alone, and that was without a Sedan. Considering the global economic meltdown, it is understandable but nevertheless disappointing.

I think that this will be the last of the "affordable" M3 as BMW will continue to push the M3/M4 to a price bracket where it simply does not belong, IMO. The closer the M3 gets to the 911 in price the less attractive it will become.

If you look at the MY production numbers, you'll see that 2009 was really tough.

For example,

E60 M5
2006 - 4762
2007 - 1225
2008 - 2828
2009 - 272
2010 - 404


E63 M6
2005 - 5
2006 - 1135
2007 - 1629
2008 - 635
2009 - 194
2010 - 289

E64 M6
2007 - 2005
2008 - 1016
2009 - 227
2010 - 264


By the way, E9x M3 stats you are looking at exclude around 4400 E93 LCI.



Anyway, here is the color breakdown for the US/Canadian E92 M3

2008-2010 BMW M3 Coupe (WD93) - NA

Alpine White 3 (300) - 2233
Azurite Black Metallic (S34) - 1
Interlagos Blue Metallic (A30) - 584
Jerez Black Metallic (A73) - 1071
Jet Black (668) - 1067
Le Mans Blue Metallic (381) - 152
Melbourne Red Metallic (A75) - 452
Ruby Black Metallic (X03) - 2
Silverstone 2 Metallic (A29) - 590
Space Grey Metallic (A52) - 1030
Sparkling Graphite Metallic (A22) - 276
Special Paint (490) - 42

Special Paint Breakdown

Barbera Red Metallic (A39) - 1
Bright Red (314) - 1
Brilliant White Metallic (U21) - 2
Dakar Yellow 2 (337) - 17
Indianapolis Red Metallic (A31) - 1
Laguna Seca Blue (448) - 3
Monte Carlo Blue Metallic (B05) - 13
Sepang Bronze Metallic (A32) - 1
Titanium Silver Metallic (354) - 3

2011-2013 BMW M3 Coupe LCI (KG93) - NA

Alpine White 3 (300) - 2137
Aventurine Silver Metallic (S58) - 1
Azurite Black Metallic (S34) - 10
Interlagos Blue Metallic (A30) - 323
Jerez Black Metallic (A73) - 1000
Jet Black (668) - 1054
Le Mans Blue Metallic (381) - 356
Melbourne Red Metallic (A75) - 372
Mineral White Metallic (A96) - 774
Moon Stone Metallic (X04) - 10
Ruby Black Metallic (X03) - 17
Silverstone 2 Metallic (A29) - 378
Space Grey Metallic (A52) - 1044
Special Paint (490) - 823


Special Paint Breakdown
Aegean Blue Metallic (336) - 1
Atacama Yellow (B21) - 1
Atlantic Blue Metallic (A13) - 1
Atlantis Metallic (399) - 3
Azurite Black Metallic (S34) - 3
Brass Metallic (FQ 95-4472 BASF) - 1
Brewster Green (T42) - 1
Bright Red (314) - 1
Brilliant White Metallic (U21) - 4
Dakar Yellow 2 (337) - 23
Estoril Blue 2 Metallic (B45) - 1
Fire Orange 2 (U94) - 274
Frozen Black Metallic (U91) - 82
Frozen Blue Metallic (W91) - 72
Frozen Brilliant White Metallic (W93) - 89
Frozen Dark Blue Metallic (W44) - 5
Frozen Grey Metallic (U83) - 61
Frozen Red Metallic (P53) - 33
Frozen Silver Metallic (W07) - 69
Grey Black (P60) - 1
Imola Red 2 (405) - 3
Java Green Metallic (W14) - 11
Laguna Seca Blue (448) - 15
Lime Yellow Metallic (W94) - 1
Midnight Blue Metallic (453) - 1
Mint Green (W97) - 1
Monte Carlo Blue Metallic (B05) - 18
Moon Stone Metallic (X04) - 3
Phoenix Yellow Metallic (445) - 2
Sakhir Orange Metallic (B50) - 2
San Marino Blue Metallic (B51) - 1
Santorini Blue 2 (327) - 22
Sophisto Grey Brilliant Effect Metallic (A90) - 1
Signal Green (P56) - 2
Singapore Grey Metallic (B41) - 1
Speed Yellow (U96) - 3
Steel Grey Metallic (400) - 1
Tanzanite Blue Metallic (X10) - 2
Titanium Silver Metallic (354) - 5
Valencia Orange Metallic (B44) - 1
Unknown Color (protected data) - 1

Haywood wrote  

Just so I understand. LCI is for anything manufactured after 2009?

For the E90, yes.

SickFinga coming through again!

Will update the PDF tonight.

Haywood wrote

Just so I understand. LCI is for anything manufactured after 2009?

LCI stands for Life-Cycle Impulse, which means facelift.

On E90 M3 it happened in 2009, on E92 and E93 it happened in 2011

Web ETK scripting FTW!

SickFinga wrote

Atlantic Blue Metallic (A13) - 1

Thanks for the update. We all know how this color made it onto the production line, wonder who is the poor sucker that ended up with it.

Technic wrote

The E46 M3 sold almost 2x the E92/3 M3 numbers in the USA alone, and that was without a Sedan. Considering the global economic meltdown, it is understandable but nevertheless disappointing.

I think that this will be the last of the "affordable" M3 as BMW will continue to push the M3/M4 to a price bracket where it simply does not belong, IMO. The closer the M3 gets to the 911 in price the less attractive it will become.

some owners definitely owning very special cars.....
I wish I can own all of them under my roof. just a wish

looks like 40 dakar yellow e92's worldwide. one of the more popular Individual colors. I wonder how many of those were from the "edition" dakar yellows as opposed to through the individual program.

also, it's weird that they don't count colors like ruby black and azurite black as special production colors. I wonder why that is.

good info thanks.

Omg look at lci e92 in alpine white. Lol.

I wonder how many MT e92s AW have competition package

esquire wrote

looks like 40 dakar yellow e92's worldwide. one of the more popular Individual colors. I wonder how many of those were from the "edition" dakar yellows as opposed to through the individual program.

also, it's weird that they don't count colors like ruby black and azurite black as special production colors. I wonder why that is.

good info thanks.

My guess on Ruby and Azurite, and I could be wrong, is that although individual colors they might be more standard ready to go individual colors.

The US configurator has them for the 5 and 7 series. Maybe those colors are ready to go in the paint booths and don't require the same lead in time as these other specially colors.

Just my theory.....could be wrong.

Also, through a Google search it appears the Brewster Green was in Hawaii

Very cool list of indiv colors looks pretty solid to me

very interesting Thanks!
Specials colors Aegean Blue and other.
only a few pay that extra money in return have something special.
I see you are the dominant colors Alpine White, Jerez Black, Space Grey and Jet Black.

LCI E90 M3-No Sunroof here. Only 952 of us in the US/Canada market it seems.

This is really interesting.
I thought it was a higher volume vehicle.

Thanks!

Technic wrote

The E46 M3 sold almost 2x the E92/3 M3 numbers in the USA alone, and that was without a Sedan. Considering the global economic meltdown, it is understandable but nevertheless disappointing.

I think that this will be the last of the "affordable" M3 as BMW will continue to push the M3/M4 to a price bracket where it simply does not belong, IMO. The closer the M3 gets to the 911 in price the less attractive it will become.

Yeah, the first thing that jumped out at me as well was the volume compared to the E46, especially since I remember reading how they were initially targeting higher volume than the E46. Yeah, the global economy is a factor, but I'd be curious to see E9x (non-M3) vs E46 (non-M3) sales numbers in the US. I think it would show that the E9x M3 was simply less successful than the E46 M3, I think the more competitive playing field is the big factor though.

Interesting stuff.

esquire wrote

looks like 40 dakar yellow e92's worldwide.

The stats are for the Canadian/US cars only. World wide there were 140 of them built

esquire wrote

one of the more popular Individual colors. I wonder how many of those were from the "edition" dakar yellows as opposed to through the individual program.

I'll get back to you on that one

esquire wrote

also, it's weird that they don't count colors like ruby black and azurite black as special production colors. I wonder why that is.

good info thanks.

Well, they do and they don't. In some cases standard Individual colors are issued with the SONDERLACKIERUNG (490) code and sometimes they use the actual paint code ( http://i.imgur.com/6ZSHrgC.jpg ) No idea why though.

Less E9x M3 s due to the tuning potential of 335i?

tony20009 wrote

Not that it matters, but I am curious...

I get that the "special paint" cars must not have "normal" colors. I'm just wondering what else makes a color "normal?" There seem to be several that were built in lower quantities than LMB, say Melborune Red, for example. Is "normal" any color that was used at least as often as LMB?

I'm just asking so I know for future reference what a normal color is.

I took the position that "normal" colors are non-Individual in the US colors. Melbourne has more than LMB if you add the LCI+non-LCI.