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BoS Models casts the BMW 2500 E3 in 1:18 resin, finished in blue metallic. The New Six saloon that established BMW's modern executive-car identity, reproduced as a sealed display piece with sharp, factory-level panel definition.
About the BMW 2500 E3 Blue Metallic BoS Models 1:18
TL;DR: BoS Models' 1:18 resin BMW 2500 E3 reproduces the 1969 New Six saloon in blue metallic. Sealed construction gives the sedan's flat panels crisp definition, and the subject itself, the car that shaped BMW's modern executive line, gives it genuine collecting weight.
Long before the 5 Series had a name, BMW needed a saloon to carry its executive ambitions. The E3 is that car, and BoS Models treats it with the seriousness the subject deserves.
Resin's Advantage on a Flat-Sided Saloon
A saloon body lives or dies on straight shut lines and consistent panel gaps, and this is where resin construction earns its keep. Without hinges to accommodate, BoS Models can cast the E3's boot, doors and bonnet as a single sealed shell, holding tight, even lines along the car's flanks that a diecast equivalent, built to open, would need wider tolerances to achieve. Lifted from the box, the model carries resin's lighter feel rather than a diecast's metallic density, and that lightness is no drawback here: it lets fine detailing, badge work and the E3's twin round headlamps read cleanly under direct light. The blue metallic finish sits with genuine depth rather than a flat single-tone coat, catching light across the bonnet in a way that flatters the saloon's long, understated lines. This is a factory-finished piece, painted and complete out of the box, built for the shelf rather than the workbench.
The Saloon That Became the 5 Series
BMW badged the E3 the "New Six," and it earned the name by carrying six-cylinder engines into a saloon body that replaced ageing pre-war-influenced designs with genuinely modern proportions. Produced from 1968 into the mid-1970s, it laid the engineering and styling groundwork that BMW's 5 Series would formalise, making the E3 less a footnote and more a founding document in BMW's post-war identity. For a collector building a BMW saloon chronology, the E3 sits at the start of that story, the piece that explains why everything BMW built afterwards looks the way it does. At 1:18, the saloon's proportions fill a shelf space comfortably, and the blue metallic finish sets it apart from the black and silver liveries that dominate most 1960s German saloon displays.
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