They made automatic 540M's?

[repenttokyo]

Or does this guy not know what he is talking about?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Cars-...1%7C240%3A1318

[shogun]

In late 1995, just prior to switching to the E39 5-series body style for the 1997 model year (there is no such thing as a U.S. 1996 model year 5-series), BMW pumped one last breath of life into the V8 powered, E34-bodied, 540i for the U.S. market: The 1995 540i Sport . They did this by using almost all of the parts that went into the European 1995 6-cylinder E34 ///M5, except the engine and transmission. 200 of these 540i Sport models were sold in the U.S. 135 of them had the 6-speed manual transmission and the rest (65) had the automatic.


http://www.kindel.com/bmw/m540_info.htm

[repenttokyo]

Interesting, I had no idea.

[632 Regal]

so at 65 would be a rarity?

Interesting, I had no idea.

[BMWCCA1]

so at 65 would be a rarity?

Sure, but not desired.


Oops. I see someone did a tranny-ectomy on it. A "professional" but can't kill the trans. program light? Hmmm. Well, it's better than an automatic, that's for sure. How that affects the value we'll find out shortly, won't we?

[yaofeng]

Instructions to get rid of trans program after 6 speed conversion, see link

http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/389513/

[shogun]

@Yaofeng
do you still have the pics which do not work anymore on BB?

[yaofeng]

The pictures do work. The two missing pictures in the first post are in the follow-up.

[bubba966]

Yes, the '95 540iA M-Sport is rather rare. Makes it difficult to find one, especially if you're looking for a particular color combo. Took me 2 1/2 years to find mine.

Too bad it's not stock anymore. Took the EDC out. And swapped the tranny. I think there were only 2 red on black autos built. Guess now there's probably only one.

[BMWCCA1]

Looks like someone bought it. But we'll never know the transaction price.