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      04-11-2021, 07:40 PM   #23
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What a beauty!!! Wish they would have put it in production. As it is the 850CSI's are already near impossible to get these days. Prices on those are way up
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Well, there is an M logo on the front, and another on the steering wheel and the engine bay, but still, that's less than you'll see on a 2-Series Gran Coupe.
Missing a few ///M logos there
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Well, there is an M logo on the front, and another on the steering wheel and the engine bay, but still, that's less than you'll see on a 2-Series Gran Coupe.
Missing a few ///M logos there
Just noticed the seats and door panels! Had to zoom in. Any more?
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Well, there is an M logo on the front, and another on the steering wheel and the engine bay, but still, that's less than you'll see on a 2-Series Gran Coupe.
Missing a few ///M logos there
Just noticed the seats and door panels! Had to zoom in. Any more?
If my memory isn't failing me, one exterior on each door integrated into the trim and the exterior door handles.

Around that time there were:

///Mx and Mxxx depending on the market
///M Sport
///M Technic
///M Motorsport
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Dear God, that engine bay! Amazing
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Does anyone knows the exact name of the color painted on this E31 M8 Concept?
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Got it! Thank you for the info.
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The 8 series has one of my all time favorite silhouettes. Kinda has that Testarossa front end, one of my other bed wetters growing up.
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The 8 series has one of my all time favorite silhouettes. Kinda has that Testarossa front end, one of my other bed wetters growing up.
Reminds me of a 240sx that knocked up a 300z...and I don't mean that in a bad way
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Nice aggressive styling. What a motor!!!

These would be huge dollars now if they were ever released.
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The 8 series has one of my all time favorite silhouettes. Kinda has that Testarossa front end, one of my other bed wetters growing up.
Agree on that, so really angry on the observation that Karen Dukec and Van Looy Lewis and the news, start to push the monster grills as the genuine original design language picking up heritage!? M1 and E31 didn't have it and both were teenager dream cars on the level of supercars like no other BMW ever before!
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Such a beauty. Recently saw a white 850i just randomly parked on the street and literally had to stop my car and stare.
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Such a beauty. Recently saw a white 850i just randomly parked on the street and literally had to stop my car and stare.
Probably wrong but I see similarities to my R129 SLs.
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i was today years old when i noticed that the M8 does not have pop up headlights instead the projectors are in the parking lamps
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