The CSL production data thread

[Roland]

thx for sharing
great job

[CraigMillwardCroft]

That was a lot of work, just need a manual to work it out now

[JBird]

Today someone asked me what number CSL I had of the UK production. I remembered this post, and thought for shits and giggles I'd try to work it out. Should be a sinch from the table below in theory, but something is not adding up. Monthly production adds to 525, but OP mentions 430 UK cars. What am I missing here

Originally Posted by NBTBRV8

430 UK/Ireland cars were made including the 11 “data restricted cars” some of which were made in 2002.

UK/Ireland Vehicle Production Month by Month

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 1 - JC98001 JC98001
Oct-02 1 - JC98002 JC98002
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 2 - JC98004 JC98005
Jan-03 1 - JC98007 JC98007
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 2 - JC98011 JC98012
Jul-03 97 - JC98021 JC98117
Aug-03 18 - JC98118 JC98135
Sep-03 121 - JC98140 JC98260
Oct-03 130 - JC98261 JC98391
Nov-03 108 - JC98389 JC98498
Dec-03 44 - JC98499 JC98544

[NBTBRV8]

Originally Posted by JBird

Today someone asked me what number CSL I had of the UK production. I remembered this post, and thought for shits and giggles I'd try to work it out. Should be a sinch from the table below in theory, but something is not adding up. Monthly production adds to 525, but OP mentions 430 UK cars. What am I missing here

You are assuming that in the batches per month that all were UK cars, they weren't. They were making UK cars at the same time as other markets. I just took the first and last UK VIN number for that particular month.

Edit:

You are right I will have to go back and recheck my numbers. My data is in excel and when I filtered it I added up the wrong numbers. A quick double check shows that it should be:

Sep-02 1 - JC98001 JC98001
Oct-02 1 - JC98002 JC98002
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 2 - JC98004 JC98005
Jan-03 1 - JC98007 JC98007
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 2 - JC98011 JC98012
Jul-03 73 - JC98021 JC98117
Aug-03 18 - JC98118 JC98135
Sep-03 61 - JC98140 JC98260
Oct-03 121 - JC98261 JC98391
Nov-03 106 - JC98389 JC98498
Dec-03 44 - JC98499 JC98544

Total = 430 UK cars including pre-production. I'll amend the thread to check the other countries shortly.

[Rick H]

Where's Neil M - this is his chosen subject . . .

[NBTBRV8]

See my post above, I will correct/check it all and post back. The total number is correct, just the numbers built by month isn't.

[JBird]

OK thanks, sorry, didn't mean to create work for you. Great effort getting all this data together.

Surprised how many CSLs were ordered with the double spoke rims. Almost all today seem to be on the CSL rims - makes me think they had suply issues, and dealers retrofitted the correct ones afterwards??? (bit like with the xenon washers).

[NBTBRV8]

RHD data checked an updated in the original post. I also missed detailing about the Japanese spec pre-production car that was built in RHD form. This is interesting as all of the production cars were LHD for that market. So I have included that bit of info in the RHD post.

Hopefully there aren't any more errors!

[Clubber]

Just noticed this thread. Here is a brief info from Turkish market ;

Turkey imported 8 csl's. 7 of them officially imported thorugh BMW distributor, Borusan Otomotiv in Turkey and one black car through grey market.
Of those seven official imports, 6 are silver 1 in black.
The grey market import is black too.
They are all on the road.
Official imports are all nov 03 productions with jb987xx wins. Grey market one I don't know (smg display has 0 instead of N in neutral position if its a clue)

[NBTBRV8]

Originally Posted by Clubber

Just noticed this thread. Here is a brief info from Turkish market ;

Turkey imported 8 csl's. 7 of them officially imported thorugh BMW distributor, Borusan Otomotiv in Turkey and one black car through grey market.
Of those seven official imports, 6 are silver 1 in black.
The grey market import is black too.
They are all on the road.
Official imports are all nov 03 productions with jb987xx wins. Grey market one I don't know (smg display has 0 instead of N in neutral position if its a clue)

If you know the vins PM to me and I will allocate them to Turkey in my data.

Thanks.