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The BMW M2 CS has reached the end of its production run, and the final tally makes for interesting reading. BMW built 2,882 examples of the G87-generation coupé. That is a healthy step up from the 2,200 F87 cars that wrapped up in 2020, yet it still counts as a seriously limited run by any sensible measure. Detailed build data from MDataWorks has now laid the whole story bare, right down to which car rolled off the line first.
Colour choice tells you plenty about the buyers. Velvet Blue dominated with 1,320 cars, a striking result given it was the only shade that carried an extra charge. Black Sapphire accounted for 858, Brooklyn Grey took 461, and Portimao Blue trailed badly on just 243. For a car built around competition credentials, the brake data raises an eyebrow. Fewer than half of all buyers ticked the carbon ceramic option, with 1,282 cars specified that way.
Cross-reference those two lists and the rarest configuration emerges. Velvet Blue cars with carbon ceramics number 667, Black Sapphire 347 and Brooklyn Grey 175. Portimao Blue with the ceramic stoppers is the true unicorn at just 93 units, against 150 without. Tyres split almost evenly between the standard fitment on 1,389 cars and the Cup option on 1,346. The hardcore Ultra Track rubber, road legal but hardly road friendly, found only 147 takers. A surprising 687 buyers also passed on adaptive cruise control.
The geography is equally revealing. North America received 852 cars, with the United States thought to account for roughly 500 of those. Right-hand-drive markets took 583, leaving the balance spread across left-hand-drive territories elsewhere. The first car, wearing VIN 000, went to Sweden in Velvet Blue with Cup tyres, carbon ceramics and adaptive cruise. The data only runs to three digits, so the identity of the very last car stays a mystery.
Context turns the numbers into something remarkable. A sub-3,000 run is genuinely scarce in BMW M terms, well below the 6,309 1 Series M Coupés and the 5,700 Z8 roadsters. Add both M2 CS generations together, and you land at roughly 5,200 cars, which puts the model ahead of the Ford GT on rarity across its own two generations at close to 5,400. Owners may find that a mixed blessing. The temptation to preserve rather than drive is real, which arguably makes the standard M2 the smarter buy for anyone who actually wants to use one.
