An award-winning BMW M1 formerly owned by a member of Pink Floyd showed up in a Facebook Marketplace listing for $785,000.

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 ...

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 ...

But after hashing it out for a couple of days, we finally circled up 15 winners, ranging from never-gonna-happen dream cars ...

Read: This 1980 BMW M1 Is More Special Than Most That meant that, in order to have a successful racecar, BMW couldn’t base it on a luxury car. The brand didn’t want to sell a racecar for the ...

An immaculate white 1980 BMW M1 has hit the market nearly four decades after the car first hit the streets. In production from 1978-1981, the M1 was the Bavarian automaker’s first attempt at a ...

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.

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 ...

It was the legendary BMW M1. With model code E26, this iconic mid-engine sports car that was produced by the German automaker between 1978 and 1981 in less than 500 examples still had Italian roots.

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.

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.