We’re always, and I mean ALWAYS appreciative when enthusiast sales staff at dealerships give fellow enthusiasts a heads up when a special car comes into inventory. In this case, it’s a nicely optioned BMW Individual M2 in Java Green Metallic that’s on the showroom floor at the dealership as we speak.
Maybe it’s EVs making us yearn for classic and obnoxious ICE again, or maybe it’s just Generation X feeling nostalgic as it watches its amassing 401Ks, but Reagen era hedonistic sportscars are enjoying a renaissance that most any of us can get behind.
Despite what you may think, this one’s a special limited edition and not a one-off. This limited edition run followed the Protonic Red Edition and Protonic Frozen Black Edition that would appear to complete the set of colors of the German flag.
The iconic Porsche color of Irish Green looks the business on a 60s/70s F-body 911, and really everything else in between. Such is the reason that Irish Green is a regular hit on the Paint to Sample color palette for an in-the-know buyer looking to spec their car in Porsche heritage.
Despite evidence you may see here suggesting otherwise, Nogaro Blue as a paint color didn’t show up at Audi until the RS2 era. If you’re doing the math, that’s about a decade before this 1983 Audi quattro left the factory. Yet here it sits.
So how’d it happen? Auto Bordin, the Swiss dealer listing this car tells the story fairly comprehensively, and so we’re going to post the English translation below.