Dear 8er friends,

some amazing statistics of the past International 8-series meeting in Munich

116 cars & drivers took part in the meeting.
107 cars showed up for the grand photo shooting in front of the FIZ.

5 out of 57 produced Alpina B12 5.7 were presented. One of them normally sleeping in an overseas garage (USA)

Additional figures & facts

198 participants travelled with
116 8-series cars a total of
64.027 kms to be part of this amazing meeting.

The accumulated cost of petrol was approx. 13.825,-EUR
(assuming an average fuel consumption of 16ltr/100km -> approx. 10.240 liters @
1.35€/Ltr.)

This amount of fuel was consumed by
37.757 PS , working in
1.332 cylinders (1.212 in V12- and 120 in V8-engines) with a total of
587,9 ltrs displacement .

The following model distribution was noted:
- 64x 850 I/CI (5.0ltr.)
- 22x 850 CSI (5.6ltr.)
- 15x 840 (9x4.0ltr, 6x4.4ltr)
- 8x 850 CI (5.4ltr.)
- 7x B12 (2x5.0ltr., 5x5.7ltr.)

...the basic colour distribution:
- 35x blue
- 33x black
- 15x red
- 12x green
- 12x silver
- 3x purple
- 2x yellow
- 2x white
- 1x grey
- 1x orange

...manufactured by:
- 107x BMW
- 7x Alpina
- 1x Hamann
- 1x Schnitzer

it truly was an international meeting:
- 86 cars from Germany
- 9 cars from Switzerland
- 8 cars from the Netherlands
- 4 cars from Austria
- 2 cars from the UK
- 2 cars from France
- 2 cars from Spain
- 1 car from Norway
- 1 car from Sweden
- 1 car from the USA

Drivers with the longest travelling distance covered:
- ca. 8.000 km Alpinadvl from the USA (container/overseas)
- ca. 2.140 km Rosso_V12 from Spain
- ca. 1.600 km Blue Baron from Spain

Altogether we saw:
- 37 cars with an "850" and
- 5 cars with an "840" on the number plate.

It was a meeting full of superlatives.
Out goes a super huge "Thank you!!" to all participants!