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The car was finally presented to the public in September of 1989 at the Frankfurt Motor show, to a rapturous applause. 5000 orders were placed within a week of its unveiling. This meant there was already a 3-year waiting list even before the car had entered production, which it finally did in the beginning of February 1990 as the BMW 850i. The cost up to this point had cost BMW one billion Mark! The production car came with a V-12 5.0L engine producing 300hp, and a 6-speed manual or 4-speed automatic gearbox. It had a top speed of 155mph (limited) and a 0-60mph time of 6.8 seconds. A very good performance specification of what was essentially a 2-ton Grand Tourer. Between 1989 and 1992, the years the 850i where produced, approximately 18,290 cars where sold, 9154 in 1991 alone, making up 60% of the total ever sold.
The cancellation of the M8 was probably wise as sales figure where never to reach the heights of those gained in 1991 again. The early 1990
It seems unusual then that in 1992 BMW decided to produce a detuned M8 in the guise of an 850Csi. This was to be the flagship of the 8 series fleet. It had all the tunings expected from an M car, including a tuned engine producing 380bhp, a top speed of 155 mph (limited) and a 0-60 mph time of 6 seconds. The package also included lower and stiffened suspension, rear wheel assisted steering, stronger breaks, upgraded front air dam and rear splitter and 18
1993 saw the introduction of 2 new models. One was the 840Ci and the other the 850Ci. The 840Ci was an attempt to make the 8 series more attractive to the average customer. Its V-8 4L engine still offered a potent 286 bhp and in 1995 the 4L engine was upgraded to 4.5L, which in turn offered more torque and an increased 0-60 mph of 6.6 seconds. At the same time as the engine upgrade, BMW decided to introduce an 840Ci Sport model. This had all of the exterior tweaks of the now discontinued 850Csi but retained its but none of the M-tuned engine components. The other car introduced, the 850Ci, appears to be identical to the 850i in all but name. Although later models did have up-rated engines with 5.4L and 326 bhp. A total 7031 840
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