BMW 8 Series Registry

11.111 cars in the 8Coupe archives

Registry — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:18:00 GMT

18 months after passing the 10k cars milestone we are pleased to announce that the 8Coupe team has again added more than one thousand new 8ers to the archive which on this 11-11 coincidentally holds data for 11.111 8-series cars.

The 8Coupe archive has seen a significant increase in size by and large due to larger sized pictures taken all over the globe and now exceeds 50GB of data. Within the archive we now store 320.000 files of which 200.000 depict 8-series cars and more than 37.000 PDF files of sales ads and supplementing information.

...it appears that following the 25th anniversary in 2014 car collectors have started to smile at the 8-series and prices are finally on the way up.

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10,000 8-series cars in the 8Coupe.com archives

Registry — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 07:23:00 GMT

The 8Coupe archival team is proud to announce having reached another milestone.

As of this month we are in the 5 digit range and now hold data for more than 10,000 8-series cars in the 8Coupe archives.

Within 38GB of E31 related data we now store 280,000 files of which 170,000 are pictures and roughly 33,000 PDF files of advertised 8-series cars.

One third of the worldwide production (10207 cars) lies ahead, due in Summer this year.

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8,888 8ers in the 8Coupe archive... and more!

Registry — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:43:00 GMT

A very busy year of the 8Coupe team has led to another milestone - more than 9,000 cars were in the archives at the end of May 2013 and en route in the same month we also passed the "magic" 8er number of 8,888 cars.

We are only a few cars shy of 30% (9187 cars) of the entire worldwide production and already a wide margin beyond the past ambitious long term target of 25% (7655 cars) reached in February 2012.

The size of the entire 8Coupe archive has grown to 33 GB data containing near 240.000 files of which 145.000 are car pictures and almost 29.000 are PDF documents relating to specific cars.

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News from the archive - 8.000 cars milestone

Registry — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:25:00 GMT

8.000 8-series cars in the archive as of today mark yet another milestone of this community effort. Over the past 3 years the 8Coupe.com archival team has added on average more than 100 new cars per month and the archive now holds more than 200.000 8-series related files.

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25% archived 8ers milestone

Registry — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:49:00 GMT

The fundamental milestone of archiving one quarter of the worldwide 8er production has been reached on February 29th, 2012.

Without the initial idea to tackle a daunting task: cataloging all 30,621 8er build sheets and starting the 8Coupe registry & archive, our knowledge about the 8er in general and seen from many specific angles would be much smaller.

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Vehicle Build Sheet Report finally available

Registry — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:39:00 GMT

The information contained in the Vehicle Build Sheet Report (VBS-R) 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 worldwide 8er production, exterior colour, upholstery, colour combination and much more....

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2000 cars & owners registered

Registry — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

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 2000th 8-series car today. To date 8er owners from 66 countries have registered their car with 8Coupe.com.

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Oct 1, 2011 - half the 8-series has turned 20

Registry — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 08:22:00 GMT

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.

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Current status of the 8Coupe.com registry archive project

Registry — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:00:00 GMT

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.

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More than 6000 cars in archives - 20% milestone passed

Registry — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:41:00 GMT

The Registry Volunteer Team is pleased to announce that we have reached two milestones during the past month, namely passing the 6000 archived cars mark in November and the 20% milestone of cataloging the 30,621 8er's produced by BMW AG earlier this month.

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Brian Eales named new E31 Registry Contact for USA

Registry — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:57:00 GMT

Effective immediately Brian Eales will become the new USA E31 Registry Agent. Mr. Eales is assuming the USA responsibility from Jud Spencer, who is retiring after 8 years of service to the global BMW 8 Series community.

Mr. Eales is an active Kansas member of the 8 series scene since purchasing his BMW 840CiA 06/2001 and the overall BMW community since the late 1990’s. His positive energy for the E31 led to his current duties as a co-moderator for the E31 Forum at Bimmerforums.net. Mr. Eales commands well known 8er knowledge and ongoing outreach to existing and potential 8er owners.

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Update: Option Codes - 8 Series

Registry — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:45:00 GMT

The listing of Option Codes specific to the 8 Series continues to be refined and validated. There were at least 175 different option codes available for the E31 during its 10 year production run.