It was a BMW unlike any that had been made before. The first production car to wear the motorsports-focused M division’s badge, the BMW M1 set the stage for generations of M cars to come. It was a ...
From 1978 to 1981, BMW offered the M1, but in the quarter-century since the mid-engine supercar went out of production, Bavaria has never offered a replacement, although it got close on more than one ...
As probably the only true supercar made by BMW, the M1 became one of the biggest automotive legends but, unfortunately, a car that is not very talked-about these days. To understand better, we need to ...
For the first time in North America, BMW will display Andy Warhol’s 1979 M1 Art Car and Julie Mehretu’s M Hybrid V8 Art Car side-by-side at Monterey Car Week. BMW is pulling out all the stops for the ...
The three-time Formula 1 World Champion was awarded this special BMW M1 for winning a 1979 one-make series. In 1978, BMW introduced the M1, a supercar often regarded as the origin story of the brand’s ...
One of just three BMW M1s to leave the factory painted in silver is heading to the auction block next month and is expected to sell for between $750,000 and $950,000. Is this the ultimate 1980s ...
Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...
BMW built its first Motorsport division car (the M1) to race in the Group 4 series of the Manufactur­ers Championship. Homologation rules stated that BMW needed to make 400 road-legal vehicles to use ...
This month BMW M is celebrating 50 years of existence. That's half a century since a rather modest debut, with a total of 35 employees. Half a century in which M became "the most powerful letter in ...
The BMW M1 Procar was a racing version of the iconic M1 supercar built for a short lived one-make series. Only a small number of originals were built, but one of the mechanics who worked on them has ...
When BMW and KITH team up, you know it’s going to turn heads. The collaboration between the New York-based apparel brand and BMW, helmed by founder Ronnie Fieg, has produced a one-of-a-kind M1. It’s a ...
With over a century spent making cars, BMW has produced some of the coolest designs of all time.