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BMW 502 2.6 Luxus Super Silver AUTOart 1:18

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BMW 502 2.6 Luxus Super Silver AUTOart 1:18 70593 Diecast
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AUTOart's 1:18 diecast BMW 502 2.6 Luxus in silver revives the postwar saloon nicknamed the Baroque Angel for its rounded body. This used example has opening doors and a box with traces of storage, the model itself intact. A quiet but significant piece for a 1950s German saloon lineup.
BMW 502 2.6 Luxus Super Silver AUTOart 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
BMW
Model Manufacturer
AUTOart
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
70593
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About the BMW 502 2.6 Luxus Super Silver AUTOart 1:18

TL;DR: AUTOart's 1:18 diecast BMW 502 2.6 Luxus recreates the curvaceous postwar saloon in silver, doors opening on the metal shell. Used example, box showing traces of storage. The 502 helped keep BMW alive as a carmaker before the Neue Klasse era.

Nicknamed the Baroque Angel for its heavily rounded flanks, the 502 rarely gets diecast attention next to the E-Types and Mercs of the era, which makes this AUTOart casting worth a closer look.

Construction and Finish on the 502 Casting

The zinc alloy body settles with real weight in the palm, the density that separates a serious diecast from a lightweight toy. AUTOart's tooling captures the 502's swollen wheel arches and heavily domed bonnet without losing crispness at the shutlines, and the doors swing on hinges with enough resistance to feel deliberate rather than floppy. Silver paint over a shape this rounded is unforgiving; flat colour flattens the curves, but here the metallic flake catches light differently across the domed panels, which is exactly what a saloon this sculptural needs to read correctly on a shelf. Behind the doors sits a cabin trimmed with the ornate detailing period BMW interiors favoured. As a used example the box carries storage wear, while the casting itself shows none of it.

The 502's Place in BMW's Story

BMW built the 502 through a difficult postwar decade, and its V8, a first for a German manufacturer at the time, gave the company a genuine engineering flagship even as sales struggled against cheaper rivals. Displayed alongside later BMW saloons, the 502 makes the company's design evolution legible in a way spec sheets never do. It suits a shelf built around German saloon history or postwar European luxury more broadly, sitting comfortably next to contemporary Mercedes and Jaguar sedans as a less obvious but historically important alternative.

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