I am going to try to consolidate my findings on how many 135is Coupes BMW have built in the past year.
My first round of data collection relied exclusively upon the the Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics Track and trace site at
http://www.2wglobal.com/www/customerCentre/index.jsp. Over time after reading other posts and finding comments about cars being shipped by other lines and questions about how many are not shipped by Wallenius Wilhelmsen I thought I might run the VIN numbers consecutively from the spring of 2012 forward and see how many 135is types as distinguished by the "P7MFA EDITION SPORT Sports Edition" tag there are.
Starting in June 2012 BMW used a VM##### last 7 digit VIN
I found VINs WBAUC9C55CVM13251 to WBAUC9C54DVM13899 from June 11, 2012 to Dec 14, 2012 for a total of 649 VINs (I added 1 to the difference since I am counting)
Then from Dec 14, 2012 to Feb 15, 2013 it appears BMW used a VU##### Series VIN To WBAUC9C50DVU41900 to WBAUC9C51DVU41999 for a total of 100 VINs
Finally on Feb 15, 2013 the VY##### series starts with WBAUC9C5XDVY60000 and continues to today with WBAUC9C57DVY60549 for a total of 550 VINS.
So I get 649+100+550 = 1299 135i Coupe VINs from June 11, 2012 to July 5, 2013. Of these 490 have the "P7MFA EDITION SPORT Sports Edition" tag. Most of the 490 are probably 135is with a handful (maybe less than 50?) being Canadian 135i M-Sports. Without Port of Delivery records the actual number of 135i M-Sports can not be known
By using the "All VIN" method versus the "WW Track and trace method" 154 cars are added to the original 220 cars I reported at
http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showt...=825806&page=4. (includes 135i M-Sport) for a total of 374 by the"All VIN" method.
This number is growing daily as BMW is busy using up their parts.
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Originally Posted by bp-plickner
Here is what I am seeing from compiling what I believe to be all 135i Coupe VINs from August 2012 to July 5, 2013
June 29, 2012 to August 29, 2012 256 135i Coupes 80 are P7MFA (135is or M-Sport)
May 4 2013 to July 5, 2013 294 135i Coupes 131 are P7MFA (135is or M-Sport)
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Bout as clear as mud?
