Overview
- BMW handed over the one‑millionth factory M car, a G80 M3 Competition in BMW Individual Fire Orange III, at its Munich plant on Friday.
- An independent compilation by MDataWorks totals about 1,006,000 M cars, creating a 6,342‑unit gap that narrows the discrepancy to a single legacy model.
- BMW’s public milestone counts only factory M cars and excludes M Performance derivatives such as the M340i, and the company has not yet explained its precise tallying method.
- BMW used the celebration to preview the production electric M3 slated for 2027 and confirmed a plan to convert the Munich plant to make only electric vehicles with roughly €650 million in investment.
- Historically the M3/M4 family accounts for about half of M production and North America is the largest regional market, a pattern that will shape where combustion M models and staff roles shift as BMW moves toward electrification.