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One car, one colour, and nobody else has it. Of the 1,036 BMW M4 CSLs that rolled out of the factory, just one wears Frozen Tampa Bay Green, a matt shade plucked from the BMW Individual catalogue. Its owner ignored the official palette and went their own way. The result stops traffic before the engine even fires.
BMW kept the CSL’s paint menu brutally short. Buyers could pick Frozen Brooklyn Grey, Black Sapphire or Alpine White, and that was it. Brooklyn Grey swallowed more than half of the production run, so any gathering of CSLs looks rather uniform. Against that sea of grey, a matt green coupé lands like a punch. Subtle it is not.
The secret weapon is BMW Individual. The bespoke programme launched in 1991 and went public a year later, with a Karl Lagerfeld-designed E32 750iL as its very first creation. America joined the party in 2006. Today the service reaches far beyond flagship saloons, and even humble 3 Series models in some markets can wear a one-off hue. Fashion and horsepower go back a long way.
This green machine is no tourist. It reportedly prowls the streets of Berlin on German plates, which suggests it lives there full-time. Spotters at MDataWorks documented the car, and the image soon spread across public Facebook groups. Nothing changes under the skin. Mechanically, it matches every other CSL, so the matt paint does all the talking.
What hides inside remains a mystery. The owner may well have ticked extra Individual boxes for the cabin too, yet nobody has confirmed it. Either way, the bodywork tells the whole story on its own. In a world of grey CSLs, this one flatly refuses to blend in. Rare was never enough for this M4.
