BMW built exactly 1,132 F90 M5 CS sedans. Production data compiled by Mdataworks now reveals where every single one landed and what color it wore. The answers say a lot about who this car was really made for.
The United States absorbed 454 units, a full 40 percent of global production. Germany, where the car rolled off the line, got just 200. The UK received 49, Canada 25, and Australia 21.
This was not a globally distributed halo car. It was an American-market product with international leftovers.
The color breakdown is equally lopsided. Frozen Deep Green, arguably the finest green BMW has mixed in decades, accounts for 570 of the 1,132 cars built. That is 50.3 percent of the entire run wearing one paint code. Brands Hatch Grey and Frozen Brands Hatch Grey split the remainder at 286 and 276 units.
American buyers leaned even harder into the green. Of the 454 US-allocated cars, 224 wore Frozen Deep Green, with the two greys dividing the rest at 108 and 122 units. German buyers showed more restraint, with 75 cars in green against 71 in Brands Hatch Grey, nearly a dead heat. The home market, as usual, had more nuanced taste.
The F90 M5 CS represents the end of something BMW will not revisit. Its 627-hp twin-turbo 4.4-liter V8 arrived without electrification, without a plug, without apology. Carbon-fiber weight savings and the sharpened CS suspension tune made it the definitive expression of the last purely combustion-powered M5 generation.
The G90 that replaced it carries a hybrid powertrain and a very different philosophy. That finality is now visible in the resale numbers.
The M5 CS stickered at $142,000 when new. Dealers marked them up immediately, and Classic.com tracked a peak sale of $210,500 in August 2022, months after deliveries began. The froth has settled, but the floor has held remarkably well.
Average tracked sale price sits at $154,476. The lowest recorded transaction was $105,000 in June 2025. Kelley Blue Book pegs current trade-in value at $107,000 and retail at $121,000.
Listed inventory ranges from $128,900 for a 52,000-mile example to $155,990 for one showing under 15,000 miles. The real tell is the gap between the CS and the standard F90 M5. A 2022 M5 trades at roughly $60,507 in June 2025 values.
The CS, same generation, same engine, same model year, holds at $107,000. That is 75 percent more for the CS badge, the carbon bits, and 10 additional horsepower.
Four years into ownership, the M5 CS is still trading near its original sticker price. Almost no six-figure German sedan can make that claim. The M3 CS, the C63 S, the RS7, they all crater, but the M5 CS has not.
Collectors chasing rarity within the run should look at the greys. With Frozen Deep Green flooding half the population, a Brands Hatch Grey car offers genuine scarcity, especially in Germany where only 71 were delivered. In the US, finding one that is not green will take patience.
Production numbers like these tend to tighten markets over time. With 1,132 cars scattered across the globe and attrition inevitable, the supply curve only moves one direction. The early speculators who paid $210,000 overpaid, but the buyers picking them up now around $120,000 might be the ones who got the timing right.
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