A DEFINITE GUIDE TO BESPOKE, SPECIAL ORDER, LIMITED EDITION, RARE UK CARS
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A Register of Rare & Interesting UK Cars… Ideally less than 100 have been made of any one model, of any make.
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Factory Limited Editions, Cars with a Low Sales Volume or Late Registration, Special Order Colours, Unique Editions…
- Here’s a Small Selection of Mercedes-Benz that is on File… How Many Made?
- Here’s a Small Selection of Porsche that is on file… How Many Made?
- Here’s a Small Selection of Bentley that’s on file… How Many Made?
- Here’s a Selection of Range Rover we have on file… How Many Made?
- Here’s a selection of BMW we have on file… How Many Made?
All Pictures are the Property of Their Rightful Owners
So Please have a search around the site and see if you find something of interest… howmanymade is searching for rare UK cars, in RHD or LHD if that’s how they came… odd colours, cars that simply didn’t sell, making them rare and of course, the limited edition variant.
DO GET IN TOUCH IF YOU ARE PART OF AN OWNERS CLUB WITH DETAILS AND CORRECT DATA TO ADD. THIS IS ABOUT WORKING TO COLLECT CORRECT DATA THAT CAN BE REFERENCED IN LATER YEARS TO PROVIDE ACCURACY… TOGETHER WITH WATCHING THE LIFE OF RARER CARS AND THEIR MOVEMENTS INTO THEIR OLDER AGE!
HOW MANY MADE 
Great looking site…look
Forward to it being fully tuned up and running
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Thanks Dre, thousands of Photo’s to come. Massive amount of information on rare cars – just needs filing!
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Looking forward to seeing the site up & running soon. Thanks for the very informative chat – Ben
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Still happy to provide details on the single 2006 model UK Holland and Holland by Overfinch in existence I own which was one of only 4 finalists under the bespoke category for the national awards at the land Rover Legends show in May 18.
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Mr Porter i3 ( Limited Edition 1 of 6 cars World Wide RollsRoyce BMW )
I am the owner of Edition Number 1 of the 6 Cars Produced. My car was first owned by BMW UK as a show car and used at the TATE MODERN for Publicity ( SEE YouTube Tate Modern ) The car has the original number plate YE65 EWK and this is clearly SEEN in the Video TATE MODERN London. The car is the First Produced 001 of the 6 cars. This recognized by BMW UK with the chassis number. You can add any of this on your website. My name is
Mark Edwards Photography ( London Professional Photography )
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Thanks for the update Mark. I’ve added it to the website – Mike
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R8 LMX number 34/99 is uk rhd and was registered december 2014. It is Ara blue. Happy second owner 😁
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Hi David – Nice to hear from you. Excellent choice of car too. Much appreciate the feedback – MIke
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Great site, only just stumbled across it whilst researching various 500 Abarths. Will the 695 Rivale which is about to have its production brought to an end be included? I have no idea how many have been made?
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Hi Andrew – Thanks for the feedback.
Yeah in the future the Rivale 695C version will be added. The actual number made, started off (as so many do) being very limited, talk of 150, then 500… seems more like 5000 worldwide but the UK convertible seems to be the rarest at the moment, possibly c70 in the UK. So it’ll be a rare car as such. Made more desirable due to the look of it. The XSR Yamaha edition in Convertible, which I will feature one day, is much rarer, but it’s not the best looking edition! (IMO) But each to their own I guess.
Keep in touch, thanks for getting in touch, much appreciated.
Mike
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Hi there, can you help me track down a SAAB Independence Version for sale, I am struggling but seems yiu are the most well placed.
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Hi Mark – as you know these are very rare. I will add the comment to the post and let you know if I hear of one coming up for sale – regards, Mike
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Excellent site….I’m a proud owner of BMW E31 8 series which is a 850i v12 manual rhd 98 ever made for UK and 4 made for South Africa.
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Hi Sarwar – Wonderful car. Didn’t realise there are so few RHD’s in SA. I’ve made a note of it. Thank you and keep in touch – Mike
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Are you still researching the 2005 MB CL65 AMG? I have had mine for three years and it has been interesting.
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Hi Robert – Yeah still slowly collecting numbers & colours
– Mike
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Hi Mike,
I own the only Abarth Ferrari dealers edition car to come to New Zealand. However when I purchased it it didn’t have the limited edition plaque. Am I able to find out the edition number if I have the VIN – chassis number? I purchased the car from Continental Cars Ferrari in Auckland and have also spoken with Andrew Simms who are the Fiat agents. Neither seem to be able to help me. Any ideas or contacts greatly received. Gary
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Hi – if you contact me with your VIN, it won’t be shown here, then I will look into it for you – regards, Mike
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I see that you have done a report on the W124 E Class AMG 3.6 – did you know that prior to this AMG did a 3.4 conversion of the 300E – there is one coming up for sale on the Collectingcars website?
Also, are you considering listing the SL60 from AMG, there are only 49 RHD versions?
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Hi James – Yeah AMG did a vast array of editions, sadly even they didn’t really keep records so maybe a touch hard to find.
As with the SL60, I did start to collect once, most were blue or silver… I believe 5 have the later gearbox and there are now some more interesting colours come out of the woodwork. The SL73 is an Interest, I know someone who owned two and they’d bought them new in the UK at the time… I believe there are 3 UK cars… a feature on either of the editions may come one day – regards, Mike
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James, Any idea if any of the LHD SAAB Independence Edition 9-3 convertibles made it to the US. I am betting they did not. Is there an official paint code for the Amber Orange?
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Hi Mike, found your site while investigating a 2013 Renault Megane RS Red Bull Racing edition.
One has come up for sale here in NZ, possibly imported from Japan. 101,000km.
Don’t know the car number yet. Hopefully I will purchase in the next day or so.
I have a ton of info about the Mk 3 Trophy R.
Cheers,
Robin Lashlie
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Hi Robin – I’ve replied directly to you – Many thanks, Mike
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