That the BMW M1 Procar Championship only ran for two seasons, from 1979 to 1980, was a great loss to motorsport. The M1 is an ...
Designed from scratch as a racing car by BMW Motorsport, the two-door M1 was powered by a 3.5-liter straight-six that produced 273 hp in the road-legal homologation model. A five-speed manual ZF ...
Commissioned in 1979, the Frank Stella BMW M1 Procar was painted to Stella's "Polar Coordinates" design and created for Stella's close friend, race-car driver, Peter Gregg. This was the only time ...
BMW planned the M1’s spiritual successor for 2022 but canceled it after 95% of the work was done. The automaker reportedly chose the XM over the I16, despite the supercar’s promising potential.
Racing versions of the M1 were even faster ... As such, it automatically earns its place as one of BMW's most iconic cars, despite the severe financial headache it caused its manufacturer.
Upon the creation of BMW Motorsports in the early ‘70s, the brand rolled out the M1, developed expressly to compete in sports car racing. Due to the nature of production, however, M1 was deemed ...