Introduced in '83 and known in its home market as the M635CSi, for 1987 BMW of North America imported the Motorsport-tuned performance version of the E24 6-series coupe as the M6, keeping the name in line with the M3 and M5 already being sold in US showrooms.
This Henna Red example in my neighborhood is just crazy hot. Quite the rara avis, too, as only about 1,677 were imported to the North American market out of a global production run of 5.855.
It used a DOHC version of BMW's 3.5L inline six that put out a claimed 256bhp in US trim at the time, which isn't a lot by modern standards but back then the tuned-port 350 in a 'Vette was only rated at something like 245. The 150+ mph M6 was legitimately big iron in its time, the second fastest production car from BMW up to that point, second only to the M1.
In Car and Driver's testing, it laid down a 14.7 second quarter at 94mph and sprinted to sixty in 6.1 seconds. Slower than the Euro version, due to fewer ponies and big, clunky bumpers, top speed was measured at 144mph. Price as tested was $58,720 in 1987 dollars, which comes to $168k in current money.
The lower two photos were taken with a Nikon D7100 and a 16-80mm f/2.8-4E VR zoom lens in June of 2022, while the upper was snapped in May of 2025 using the same camera and lens.
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