Spotted this E28 528i in France

[greentouring]

Out and about yesterday and spotted this near enough mint example of a 528i wearing M-Tech badges.

The interior has sport seats (non-leather) and a Tech 1 wheel. She's done the equivelant of around 100,000 miles and hasn't a spot of rust or stone-chip (although I did find a small area needing paint correction, but I'm a fussy bugger).

Is this an Mid '80s E28 as I suspect? And also, would this be a genuine 'M' model in your opinion?

Enjoy the photos

[bmw-mad]

Out and about yesterday and spotted this near enough mint example of a 528i wearing M-Tech badges.

The interior has sport seats (non-leather) and a Tech 1 wheel. She's done the equivelant of around 100,000 miles and hasn't a spot of rust or stone-chip (although I did find a small area needing paint correction, but I'm a fussy bugger).

Is this an Mid '80s E28 as I suspect? And also, would this be a genuine 'M' model in your opinion?

Enjoy the photos

Yes this is a mid 80's car and they never did a M in the 528i But they did do a M535i.

Looks pretty nice apart from the stripes.

[Nobby_N]

No stone chips because he drives in reverse just like there army!

[poolnoodle]

they never did a M in the 528i

+1
Released a MotorSport 528i here - sports seats, dog leg box, stripes, alloys, etc but this is a later model and some sort of mock up

[RM2186]

Looks a nice bit of kit

[greentouring]

I did an internet search and found no record of an M-badged 528i, thus the question ;)

What sort of price do you reckon something like this would fetch in the UK?

[Splondike]

I personally don't like the rear spoiler much, although it is being made worse by the stripes somehow. The eyebrows are nasty too They did not do an ///M 528i, and I have never heard of a motorsport 528i although there were Schnitzer and Alpina 518i based cars. However the kit, seats etc were all options. It looks like it could be a 86/87 car, as for the value over here 528is are not the most expensive probably around 2-2.5K in this condition.

E28s don't fetch as much money as overpriced E30 sports !

[greentouring]

I'm not a fan of spoilers at all, but I think the stripe leads the eye back to the spoiler very nicely.

Agreed on the eyebrows, and a chrome kidney grill would be required too.

[Ziggy]

Looks a lot like the one that's been parked up by the side of the road in Le Mans for a few years!

[Blitz]

The whole rear end looks different.

[MillwallSE14]

looks pretty nice

[Splondike]

The whole rear end looks different.

I was looking at that earlier, it looks almost like an M3 boot to a standard E30 boot if you know what I mean, the back face of the boot looks flatter and taller, it is an optical illusion due to the spoiler ?

[greentouring]

You know what? I couldn't see it before, but that boot lid does look different. Look at the gap under the BMW roundel on both boot lids.............it's much bigger in the French car.

[Conan]

agreed - weird

[steerfromtherear]

You know what? I couldn't see it before, but that boot lid does look different. Look at the gap under the BMW roundel on both boot lids.............it's much bigger in the French car.

Again I think that's an illusion due to the stripes on Splondikes boot lid.

Get someone to chop both boots plain.

[Blitz]

That rear end is defenity modified.

[beemerbird]

Assuming the 'AV' means its for sale, any idea about how much the owner is asking for it?

[greentouring]

No idea, there was no one around to ask, but if s/h French car prices are anything to go by, it'll be very expensive.