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About this site

In general
These internet pages deal exclusively with the BMW 8-series (the BMW 850CSi in detail) and the Alpina B12 Coupé.
The information displayed here is first-hand, directly from BMW, BMW M-division or Alpina and therefore reliable.
Thank you to the Alpina GmbH + Co and to the BMW historical archive for providing detailed technical data of their B12 Coupé and 8-series.
All material on this site is copyrighted and for private use only. Redistribution only with permission.
History
Since its launch in december 1999 the popularity of this site has increased enormously. Originally the site, still named www.bmw850.de back then, should provide correct information on the BMW 850CSi only.
At that time - and unfortunately today sometimes as well - lots of pieces of wrong information could be found on the internet, irritating people who were really interested in the 8-series. This site should be something like a counterweight.

Meanwhile www.e31.net has grown to the internet's by far most exhaustive source of information on the BMW 8-series coupé - thanks to a vast number of visitors and loads of email which kept the motivation alive to turn this site into something special.

Web-statistics
Here are some figures taken from the server logs of www.e31.net:

1999
MonthTraffic in MBytesTransferred files# of countries
December126779
2000
MonthTraffic in MBytesTransferred files# of countries
January462 20514
February1223 34915
March1233 68713
April2515 09715
May5838 23416
June3 47566 07869
July5 76899 36071
August6 288112 46676
September8 031114 92578
October7 706122 92881
November10 679141 49759
December10 425139 48572
2001
MonthTraffic in MBytesTransferred files# of countries
January14 812171 34872
February25 959171 77975
March29 782165 22573
April28 074159 83975
May30 190177 68269
June34 543169 70278
July43 649199 23971
August43 184237 34574
September49 809224 95660
October55 158299 79567
November *)122 512295 95670
December54 892242 42275
2002
MonthTraffic in MBytesTransferred files# of countries
January75 966291 96475
February75 635275 44766
March85 654327 71571
MonthsTotal trafficTotal files
28823 328 MB4 230 402

Visitors from over 80 nations have accessed www.e31.net in october 2000. The most downloaded file (by far) has been and still is the 0-125 mph acceleration video. The day with most traffic was January 27th 2002 where 12063 megabytes have been transferred (that's 143 kilobytes per second or 1144 kBits/s).

*) In November 2001 there was an additional MPEG available with a size of 54 MB which was downloaded over 1700 times and therefore pushed traffic from 57980 MB to 112512 MB. The 119.6 GB in November 2001 average by the way in 48.4 KB per second (387 kBit/s), every second over an entire month!