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 ...

Art cars are growing in popularity, with a number of automakers and their subsidiaries getting on board the trend. But BMW is where it all started. The German automaker has been at it since 1975.

BMW will host a Procar Revival in July celebrating the M1, a car with a limited but memorable racing history.; With its 3.5-liter inline-six derived from the winning 3.0CSL race car, the M1 was a ...

When the Warhol M1 was brought to Hockenheim in 2009 to celebrate Thirty Years of the BMW M1, artist and Art Car alumnus Frank Stella drove the M1 in an homage race. Girst was aghast.

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.

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 ...

BMW M1 cars were built from 1978 to 1980 and never legally imported to the U.S., so Glass’s car is a “gray market” vehicle. “There were 453 of these cars built, ...

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 ...

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 ...

automatic-content-migration. We’re not sure there’s never been an uglier concept car, but the BMW M1 Hommage certainly comes close — if it doesn’t outright snag the crown.

In a quote from the BMW Art Car Collection, we see a beautiful quote from Warhol himself about the car: "I love this car.It's more successful than the artwork." That is because not only is this M1 ...