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An award-winning BMW M1 formerly owned by a member of Pink Floyd showed up in a Facebook Marketplace listing for $785,000.
BMW M1 FAQ. BMW built around 450 M1s, including race cars, with just under 400 being road cars. It's thought that the vast majority—if not all—of these cars remain in service.
It ran when it was parked 36 years ago, and now a rare BMW M1 supercar is ready to hit the road again. The sleek red coupe was first purchased in 1981 and driven just 4,500 miles before it was ...
The BMW M1 is an odd duck in BMW’s history: a stand-alone supercar, built with a racing career in mind. Initiated by BMW Motorsport director Jochen Neerpasch, it was green-lit in the mid-1970s ...
Yet BMW and Neerpasch have left a remarkable monument to automotive excellence behind them, as the following tests of a standard M1 and Dave Cowart's M1 racer will reveal.
BMW was close to creating an all-electric successor to its iconic M1 supercar, according to a report. Respected website BMW ...
The BMW M1 is perhaps the most vaunted car ever sold by the Bavarian manufacturer. Built to satisfy homologation requirements for Group 5 racing, the M1’s primary purpose was to do battle with ...
As BMW’s first and arguably only true mid-engined supercar (depending on how you classify the i8 performance-wise), the M1 has a special place in our hearts. Just 453 were built from 1978 to ...
The M1, then, would become the first out-of-the-box racer BMW Motorsports ever sold and featured revised aerodynamics, racing wheels and tires, and an engine boosted to 490 horsepower.
Between 1978 and 1981, BMW produced only 453 of its mid-engine M1, and 54 of those were race cars. The road-going car featured a 273-horsepower twin-cam 3.5-liter inline-6 and a 5-speed manual ...
The plug-in hybrid BMW i8 retired in 2020 without a direct successor, ... BMW reveals the M1-inspired i8 successor that never was. By Ronan Glon. Feb 12, 2024 10:55 AM EST Start the Conversation .
The BMW M1 is undoubtedly one of the best applications of the wedge shape, at one point predicted to be "The Shape of Things to Come" by more than one automaker.