ew cars embody the spirit of the 1980s quite like a white six-cylinder BMW – it being only one rung below a red Porsche on the yuppie ladder of desirability. The 1980s was the decade when BMW really made inroads in the UK, and though not exactly mainstream, it certainly became an executive brand of choice. Peoples’ aspirations had gone higher, and more foreign, than a Triumph, Rover or Ghia-badged Ford and now wanted something crisp and German. The other trend in the 1980s was the revival of the four-seater
