BMW, MINI & Rolls-Royce Chassis Codes and Models

BMW chassis codes trace back to the mid-1960s and the E3 "New Six" sedans, where the E stood for Entwicklung — German for "development." Every BMW project gets one, production car or not, with the number simply advancing from there. BMW burned through the entire E-code range by the late 2000s and moved to F-codes, which lasted barely ten years before giving way to the G-codes used today — not because BMW started replacing cars faster, but because it began assigning a separate code to each body style instead of sharing one across a sedan, coupe, wagon, and convertible. The table below covers every BMW model and engine sold in the US, plus a few notable European variants, sorted by chassis code. Search a code like E30 or browse by model line.