The E34 M5 Touring Registry!

de Witt · 8th February 2002, 17:18

What is the E34 M5 Touring Registry?

The E34 M5 Touring Registry is an effort to compile a database of all 891 of the E34 M5 Tourings that were built. The effort is headed by the M5 Touring Registry creator and owner: Karl H. Marks. Here is a synopsis of the M5 Touring:

BMW E34 M5 Touring:
Total production: 891 cars
Hand-built by M GmbH at the Garching facilities between 03/1992 and 07/1995
VIN-range: HJ 91 BL 01000 - 01944
How many are still out there?
And where are they?
Do you own one of these rare cars?
You know somebody who does?
= tell us about it !

If you are an owner of an M5 Touring or know of an M5 Touring,
Mail this e-mail: m5toureg@telia.com to e-mail Karl and share your M5 Touring information.

Thanks,
Karl H. Marks, Ken Little, and Paul DeWitt

IvanDias · 9th February 2002, 17:34

Um,

How come there are 944 Vin numbers in that sequence yet only 891 sold ?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I can`t think of a valid reason.

Ivan.

de Witt · 9th February 2002, 18:01

Sometimes VIN # were assigned to cars that were never built. This happens all the time. It even happened to the E34 M5 sedan.

IvanDias · 21st April 2002, 19:07

I think I need a touring.

Steve Sabine · 22nd April 2002, 02:01

Have you been drinking again Ivan? I thought you were a confirmed 3.6 aholic!!!!!!

de Witt · 22nd April 2002, 03:46

Well, all I can say is that you lucky guys offically had E34 M5 Tourings imported to the UK, so you had better get one!

If I'm to get one, I have to go to Germany, look at the Touring, take it to a dealership for service and repairs, take it to a shipper, get it shipped, take it to an importer, get it Federalized, get it EPA'ed, get it DOT'ed, and maybe if it passes the test, drive it home and into my garage. Base price of Touring (25,000USD) plus Federalizing( 10,000USD)=DAMN!

mickle · 22nd April 2002, 11:53

Hello deWitt,

I hope this doesn't sound too picky - as I understand it, the M5 Touring was never officially imported into the UK by BMW (UK) Ltd. A number of them have been brought into the country as 'personal imports' and the regulations governing this are not as stringent. Because the car was type approved in the European Union of which the UK is a member, the conversion to UK spec. only involves headlamp dip beam direction (to the left not right), proper marks on the speedo to show UK speeds in MPH (it's not neccessary to change the KM speedo, just sthck-on labels will do). All the other stuff with catalytic converter and emmission control is already OK for the UK.
The car was only ever built as a LHD but there is one car that was converted for a UK customer by Munich Legends.
BTW, my car's build sheet shows 11th August 1995 as the date - it''s VIN is BL01920 - must be one of the last.

Regards,

Mike

karl h. marks · 26th April 2002, 23:02

Steve Sabine, ´95Btouring, Cosmos Black,
wud you mind to let me have the VIN of your car
for the M5touring registry ?
for production details of your car pls mail me privately
-
Hi Mike - BL01920 -
the very last M5touring (VIN BL01943) was
delivered by M-GmbH in Garching on 27th July 1995
your car BL01920 was built on the 29th of June 1995
with 'first registration date' 7th of August 1995 -
your car is almost an exact ´twin´of my own car
(BL01900), the 'built sheet' you are refering to,
are you sure it is a 'built sheet' ? is it in german ??
for more details of YOUR car you are welcome to
contact me privately -
-
any M5touring-owner, let us know that you are
out there ! presently the registry includes details
of 150 cars out of 891 cars built, production details
are available for ALL the 891 cars built

brgds
Karl (E34/5 M5touring register)

danham · 25th July 2002, 20:05

oh, my touring isn't one of the last! :..o(
it's a 95er but with vn:01834

but it's also nice, i think!

best regards
daniel

KAMIKADZE · 6th October 2002, 16:57

I used to have M5 touring but one of my friends crashed with it . So the only thing that was not broken was the engine and gearbox . So i have 325is turbo stage2 - and when i blow my 2.5 liter engine I swaped with the 3.8

http://photos.yahoo.com/tvnenov