View Poll Results: How Many E36 M3's are left.

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  • 60,000-70,000

    11 7.48%
  • 50,000-60,000

    33 22.45%
  • 40,000-50,000

    43 29.25%
  • 20,000-40,000

    34 23.13%
  • Less than 20,000

    26 17.69%
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    Poll - How many E36 M3's are left?

    Seeing the recent post here of the pictures of deceased M3's got me thinking.

    I wonder how many of the original ~71,000 E36 M3's are left?

    There is no scientific way of figuring this out as I dont believe we have the statistics of each country the lovely 36 was sold in but what do you think?

    My guess is around 40,000 are left.
    ... and the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad so I had one more for dessert. Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Sidewalk


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    The insurance on my M3 is higher than on my M5. High rate of total loss for the M3 is the reason.

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    20k?

    yeah right

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    I bet there's still like 60k left.

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    I would be very shocked if it was under 45,000. The better poll would be to find out how many in your year and color are still alive(no way to tell really though).

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    Just got rear ended into another car and Allstate ok'd $7000 to fix. Body shop said it was 57% totaled in there loss software.They want 70% to total a car. Cant wait to get it back. Just look how many s52's are for sale. Check UK ebay and german ebay to see all the s50b32 engines are available. My guess in another 5 years it will be at e30 m3 numbers.

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    I dunno about coupes, but sedans are sure as hell getting more and more sparse, especially the clean examples. 2k left? Little over 8k produced, figure 2 - 3k left, 100 - 300 properly maintained, 50 - 100 with low miles.
    Last edited by KGB M3; 03-31-2010 at 02:36 AM.

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    The number could be really low with all of the riced out cars. That is, I consider those cars as good as gone.

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    I'd say a good 55-60,000 are left. Doesn't matter to me though really, since in Vancouver these things are rarer than E46 M3's (OP, we're special)

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    Better to find out how many are left, and how many of those, are worth owning...

    Cars with salvage titles don't count, they are dead...
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    Hmmm... good question.
    What someone could possibly do is find out two numbers:
    X: for a given state how many e36 m3's are registered in that state. Might be public info available from the dmv?
    Y: for that same state, how many e36 m3's were sold. maybe a bmw dealer would have access to that info?

    whatever that ratio is (X:Y) could then be extrapolated over the entire production line. That is to say, if you know X and Y, then Z (the number that we want to know) could be found with the equation:
    Z:71,000=X:Y

    I am not volunteering for this task ("action item")... just pointing out that it might be feasible to do if someone really wanted to do the legwork.

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    insurance companies might have the numbers, or at least a percentage

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    Quote Originally Posted by XanDer View Post
    There can be only one.
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    that means' there can only be 2.....but I meant I agree with you saying there can only be 1............. My heads hurts
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    Quote Originally Posted by KGB M3 View Post
    I dunno about coupes, but sedans are sure as hell getting more and more sparse, especially the clean examples. 2k left? Little over 8k produced, figure 2 - 3k left, 100 - 300 properly maintained, 50 - 100 with low miles.
    So you're saying that 75% of the sedans are gone or trashed out? I say no way. Gotta be AT LEAST half still around.
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    What about non sunroof m3's left
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    What about ones with tilted steering wheels?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brent 930 View Post
    The number could be really low with all of the riced out cars. That is, I consider those cars as good as gone.
    lol I agree.


    I bet there are still a good 55,000 - 60,000 still on the road in one form or another.

    +1 sedans are getting harder to find for sure. Especially in good shape.
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    Eh, after 13 years (on average), I would be willing to bet there are half of the total amount (including all the riced out ones that don't count as Brent stated so nicely).

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    I know there are at least 5 in Alaska. So, I'm going to guess... 6! ha!

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    Quote Originally Posted by XanDer View Post
    What about ones with tilted steering wheels?

    I got avus with dove and tilt wheel its a nice combo all the way around. They are great cars to own
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    I bet at least half of them are still on the road in some form or another. I'm sure there are a few thousand nice low mileage cars out there in peoples garages. You just don't see them for sale that often.

    I have noticed that a lot of the cars I see for sale that are in nice shape are either auto sedans or convertibles. It's interesting because these cars were produced in smaller numbers, but they make up a much larger percentage of cars for sale.

    Seems like more of the 5-speed cars have had the crap driven out of them and or wrecked.
    Last edited by alanilil; 03-31-2010 at 01:33 PM.

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