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    M Stripes story and information

    The first Red stripe represented Texaco, the famous American oil retail brand, who had partnered with BMW during the early days of M racing.

    Blue represented BMW and Bavarian region.

    The purple was used to represent the partnership and to allow for a nice transition between the two colors, blending as some may call it.

    Once the BMW/Texaco partnership ended, BMW had to buyout Texaco for the rights to the red.

    For those of you that are in the imaging or graphics field, here are the color names and codes used in the ///M stripes:

    Pantone:
    Blue — Pantone Process Blue
    Purple — Pantone 268
    Red — Pantone Warm Red

    Paint:
    blue violett GLASURIT-BMW 4000
    light blue GLASURIT-BMW 5002
    red GLASURIT-BMW 353

    RGB:
    Blue — 0 138 201 (Hex: 008AC9)
    Purple — 43 17 90 (Hex: 2B115A)
    Red — 241 26 34 (Hex: F11A22)

    Pantone = color process (order) used by printing shops to define colors.

    Paint = in this case it is refering to a GLASURIT paint code. Or a specific mix of auto paints.

    RGB = Red, Green, Blue. The same process your computer monitor or TV uses to make colors.

    Source:
    what are the colors of the M stripes??

    #2
    Thread is now a sticky ;)
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      #3
      thank you for this valuable piece of information :)
      Current
      E92 M3 - Mineral White
      F80 M3 - SilverStone

      Past
      E36 318is
      E39 540i ///M sport
      VW CC
      E46 M3 - Frozen White

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        #4
        Thanks for the info! Quite a lot of history going into the colours of the M division. Btw, I was just idly going through some video highlights of the last F1 race and could not help but notice the Martini livery of the Williams F1 team.

        What took me by quite some surprise and inquisition was how similar the Martini livery is to the M colours! Is this just a coincidence? I admit that the usage of the patterns are different but barring a few decimals on the colour-o-meters (or whatever they are called, to calculate the proportion of RGB in each shade), they are pretty close to identical.

        A quick Google search returned these images. The resemblance is almost uncanny! Any conspiracy theorists out there? :p
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          #5
          Originally posted by alnaser77 View Post
          For those of you that are in the imaging or graphics field, here are the color names and codes used in the ///M stripes:

          Pantone:
          Blue — Pantone Process Blue
          Purple — Pantone 268
          Red — Pantone Warm Red

          Paint:
          blue violett GLASURIT-BMW 4000
          light blue GLASURIT-BMW 5002
          red GLASURIT-BMW 353

          RGB:
          Blue — 0 138 201 (Hex: 008AC9)
          Purple — 43 17 90 (Hex: 2B115A)
          Red — 241 26 34 (Hex: F11A22)

          Pantone = color process (order) used by printing shops to define colors.

          Paint = in this case it is refering to a GLASURIT paint code. Or a specific mix of auto paints.

          RGB = Red, Green, Blue. The same process your computer monitor or TV uses to make colors.

          Source:
          what are the colors of the M stripes??
          Awesome info you have posted, I will surely use these attributes for custom air brush or custom stickers :)

          Thanks a lot,
          Best regards,
          KiKO4LiFE.

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