Past M3 Production Stats

There have been a few threads from time to time wondering what the production stats of past M models has been like.



Noticed today that the wikipedia page now has a collection of 'past M models' which gives some production numbers, and thought it might be of interest to put those numbers together here in one thread:



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So, for instance, the E9X M3 is thus:



9,606 + 68 M3 CRT (Sedan);

39,954 + 118 M3 GTS (Coupé);

16,219 (Convertible);

(total: 65,965)



The E46 was 85,744, meaning (as has been noted elsewhere) production was down on the previous model.



Even the E36 outsold the E9X by around 6,000 cars (which I did not know).



Also interesting is how many more Coupes there were than Sedans on the last one (I knew there were more, but not that much) and, for that matter, how there were more cabs than sedans last go around.



I expect that historic division is why BMW expected to sell so many more M4s than M3s this time around. Have a hunch that ratio will not hold on the F8X as I think the M3 will do better, relatively, than the last Sedan did....but I guess we'll see.