Why isn’t anyone driving this 1980s BMW 6 Series M Package?

From Jalopnik’s “The Abandoned” series, here’s a beautiful 1980 BMW E24 6 Series with an M Package which has not been used for a long time by its owner near Tokyo, Japan. The person who spotted the car says the following:

“It hasn’t moved since May. It has no registration stickers at all. It probably hasn’t been driven in years. In fact, there’s never really any other cars in the lot in which it resides, so it must be getting awfully lonely (I know, I know, anthropomorphising machines). And it seems like it would be fun to drive.”

Even more odd is the fact that the car is a left-hand drive which points out to an import car versus a right-hand drive 6 Series built for Japan.

The BMW 6 Series is known as a BMW luxury car -and this is where it all begun. The E24 was a replacement for the CS and CSL coupés first produced in 1965. The CS 3.0 was almost changed by adding a few centimeters in height to make it easier for customers to get into the car. However, Bob Lutz rebelled against the decision and rough drafted an alternative version that soon became the 6 series. Production started in March 1976 with two models: the 630CS and 633CSi. Originally the bodies were manufactured by Karmann, but production was later taken in-house to BMW. 1989 was the last year for the E24 with production stopping in April.