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BMW 700 Sport Coupe Spanish Red AUTOart 1:18

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BMW 700 Sport Coupe Spanish Red AUTOart 1:18 70652 Diecast
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AUTOart's 1:18 diecast BMW 700 Sport Coupe in Spanish Red reproduces the compact, rear-engined coupe credited with rescuing BMW from near-collapse. This used example has opening doors and a box with traces of storage, the model itself unaffected. A small but historically loaded piece for a BMW lineage shelf.
BMW 700 Sport Coupe Spanish Red AUTOart 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
BMW
Model Manufacturer
AUTOart
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
70652
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5-layer carton Foam-filled interior
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About the BMW 700 Sport Coupe Spanish Red AUTOart 1:18

TL;DR: AUTOart's 1:18 diecast BMW 700 Sport Coupe recreates the compact rear-engined coupe in Spanish Red, doors opening on the metal shell. Used example, box showing traces of storage. Sales of the 700 helped keep BMW solvent before the Neue Klasse arrived.

The BMW 700 is a small car with an outsized reputation among people who know the brand's history: without it, there may not have been a BMW left to build the cars that followed.

How AUTOart Handles the Compact 700 Body

Small doesn't mean simple here; the zinc alloy casting still carries genuine weight for its footprint, and AUTOart's tooling keeps the 700's tidy, rounded coupe proportions honest at this reduced scale. Red paint suits the coupe's compact curves well, holding an even gloss across the short bonnet and sloped tail without flattening into a single dull tone. The doors open with hinge tension that feels deliberate rather than toy-like, revealing a cabin scaled down but still trimmed with period-correct simplicity. Given the model's small footprint, panel gaps and shutlines are easier to keep tight than on a full-size saloon casting, and that shows here in clean, consistent lines. As a used example, the box shows its own storage wear; the model itself carries none of it.

The 700's Role in BMW's Survival

By the late 1950s BMW was in genuine financial trouble, and the 700, a small, rear-engined coupe and saloon far removed from the luxury cars that had defined the brand, sold well enough to keep the company independent long enough to develop the Neue Klasse. That makes it one of the more consequential small cars in European automotive history despite its modest specification. On a shelf built around BMW's evolution, the 700 belongs at the very start of the story, before the 1800 and long before the 3 Series, as the car that bought the company time.

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