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Purple Silk
Metallic
Paint code R61 · Special order · BMW Individual Purple Silk
30built
#25 most common of 94 special-order colors.
Purple Silk Metallic (R61) is a metallic BMW Individual paint, seen on the F80 M3 for US model year 2018. 30 F80 M3s were painted in it. Counted in 2018 from every car's build sheet. Model years
The dot is the body color picked off that photo.
Where they went
| Market | Pre-LCI | LCI | CS | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US & Canada | – | 3 | – | 3 |
| Europe/RoW | – | 3 | – | 3 |
| RHD markets | – | 24 | – | 24 |
| All | 0 | 30 | 0 | 30 |
BMW changed the model in mid-2015. In the US, pre-LCI cars are mostly 2015 models. Bimmerpost build-sheet tally, 2018.Source
By year
MDataWorks counts 30: 1 manual and 29 DCT. 20 had the Competition Package.
| Market | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | – | – | – | 3 | 3 |
| Canada | – | – | – | – | 0 |
| Europe/RoW | – | 1 | – | 2 | 3 |
| UK/AU/JP | 5 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 24 |
| All | 5 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 30 |
Swatch color is an estimate. Reference
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