Bmw m1 captured the attention of Peter Gregg, an accomplished road racer and six-time IMSA champion. Gregg also
is back in 2012 as a plug-in hybrid with a 1.5-liter three-cylinder turbodiesel straight out of the Bmw m1
BMW supercar tribute to their amazing 1970 BMW M1, will debut in Australia at Melbourne International Motor Show in February. BMW M1 Hommage was unveiled last year to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the original M1.
"We are pleased to announce the BMW M1 Homage Car Show arrives in Australia Melbourne International Motor Show," said BMW Group Australia managing director Guenther Seemann.
"BMW M1 Homage is a sensational looking car that talent show both the strong momentum of BMW Motorsport heritage, but also the competence of our designers who created the current look of the 21st century how a new generation of the BMW M1 could see. There is no doubt that the BMW M1 Homage is a draw card for visitors to Melbourne show, joining our new Twin Turbo V8 BMW 7 Series and X6 Sports Activity Coupe, "he said
In 1979, M1, powered by a 3.5-liter straight-six, was the fastest German sports car production. The car had been captured, in part, by car, the art of Andy Warhol, who has terrorized the track to make a single Procar Series, which is an F1 driver Niki Lauda and Nelson Piquet among its alumni.
More photos, including runners M1 at Hockenheim in the Nurburgring, with press materials are widely available after the jump.
The BMW M1 (E26) is a sports car that was produced by German automaker BMW from 1978 to 1981.
In the late 1970s, Italian manufacturer Lamborghini entered into an agreement with BMW to build a production racing car in sufficient quantity for homologation.[1][2] The result was sold to the public, from 1978 to 1981, as the BMW M1. It was the only mid-engined BMW to be mass produced. It employed a twin-cam M88/1 3.5 L 6-cylinder petrol engine with Kugelfischer mechanical fuel injection. A version of this motor was later used in the South African version of the BMW 745i, of which 209 examples were built between 1984 and 1986, as well as the E24 BMW M6/M635CSi and E28 BMW M5. The engine had six separate throttle butterflies, four valves per cylinder and produced 277 PS (204 kW; 273 hp) in the street version, giving a top speed of 260 km/h (160 mph). Turbocharged racing versions were capable of producing around 850 hp (634 kW).
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. A good blogger's dozen of them have been commissioned for BMW over the years, and every one of them has remained in the company's private collection. Except one.
That one is the M1 Procar you see here, painted by Frank Stella in 1979. It remains the only example in the series that was created for a private individual with BMW's blessing. After years in the Guggenheim, Bonhams auctioned it off a couple of months ago at Monterey for a whopping $854,000 – well above estimate.
So who bought it? Jonathan Sobel, owner of (among other interests) BMW of Southampton, way out at the eastern end of New York's Long Island. The dealership is just settling in to its new showroom on Montauk Highway, and that's where the M1 art car will be showcased for much of the new year ahead. So if your plans include a trip out to the Hamptons, you may want to stop by for a rare glimpse. Press release
In 1979 the head BMW Motorsport, Jochen Neerpasch, devised a one-make championship using racing modified M1s. The series was created to aid BMW in building enough M1s to enter the Group 4 classification in the World Championship for Makes. The new series, known as the Procar BMW M1 Championship, served as a support series for Formula One, and included many current Formula One drivers in identical cars.
The series ran for two years, with Niki Lauda winning the 1979 season, and Nelson Piquet the 1980 season. After BMW met the standards for Group 4, the Procars were used by various teams in the World Championship as well as other national series.In April 2008, BMW unveiled the M1 Homage Concept to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the M1. The concept vehicle uses a mid-engine layout and borrows styling cues from both the original M1 and the Turbo show car.[4]
The BMW Homage concept was released at the event Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d'Este 2008. The design was created by Giorgio Giugiaro who got his idea from the BMW Turbo concept which was designed by Paul Bracq. The BMW Turbo boasted many technical and advance innovations from BMW.[5] The front of the car differs the most than the other parts of the car. The front sports double head lights are not the pop up light that are on the original M1, but the usual trademark of the kidney grills made it onto the design of the car. The Hommage also incorporated the double badge in the back of the car as the original M1. There are no photos of the interior of the car or the car in action. The specifications of the car have not been released to the public. BMW has not confirmed if these will be released, although the the upcoming i8 model, which is based on the BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics concept, draws influence from the M1 Homage.
The wide stance, louvered rear window and pentagonal rims combine an '80s retro look with a contemporary, almost sinister feel for a car that pretty much every boy has wanted since adolescence. The front grille features two intakes for cooling and four hidden headlights. Take a close look at the photos after the jump because that's all you'll get for now as the new M1 is just a concept car. We'll keep our fingers crossed in hopes that it will go into production.
car, the BMW M1 Homage Concept.
The original M1 was built between 1978 and 1981, powered by a 3.5-litre inline 6-cylinder engine.
In the '80s, it was was a very attractive vehicle designed by Giugiaro, and to this day is one of the rarest BMW's ever with less than 500 cars ever built.
Over the weekend BMW surprised everyone at the prestigious Concorso D’Eleganza Villa D’Este event near lake Como in Italy with an intriguing M1 remake.
"For a company as for a product, it is important to be aware of one's roots," said Chris Bangle, director of design at BMW.
"In the spirit of Giugiaro and Bracq, the BMW M1 Homage unites the BMW values of design and technology in a highly emotional and exciting interpretation."
The design is wide and ultra-low, with a front end design with a strong retro look. The headlights have an Alfa Romeo touch, but overall it's a unique design.
BMW's design team has really gone to town on the new concept car, which features an amazing rear end, with a sculpted deck lid with rising edges that lead towards the upturned brake lights.
There are some aspects of the original 1980s M1 car in the new concept car's design, particularly in the overall profile. The unorthodox wheel design is likewise an homage to the first M1 sports car, as is the vented hood.
The original BMW M1 had a mid-mounted 6-cylinder engine that output just over 200kW of power, but the new concept BMW M1 is powered by a version of BMW's 5.0-litre V10, which has been tuned to output more than the standard 378kW of power.
While there has been talk that the BMW M1 concept car's V10 engine is front mounted, the air intakes in the lower rear side skirts and the vented slats where the rear window would suggest otherwise.
BMW's 'M' division was responsible for not only the engine tuning, but also the overall development of the retro concept car, which as the name suggests is an homage to the original M1 super car, celebrating it's 30th anniversary.
The question on everyone's lips is this: will it be built?
At the moment it is purely an exercise in styling for the BMW M division.
But following the Concept CS, another long and low concept that's rumoured for deployment in the near future, there is a small chance that BMW's top brass will be tasking the accountants to crunch the numbers to ascertain if it could develop the modern-day M1 super car without taking a serious financial hit.
If built, the new 10-cylinder BMW M1 would rival vehicles such as the Audi R8, Ferrari F430, Aston Martin V8 Vantage and Porsche 911 Carrera.
Arch rival Mercedes-Benz has the SLR super car and when production of the SLR ceases in 2009, the German car maker plans on releasing a new super car in 2010. Audi also has the R8 mid-engined sports car which has been a huge sales success, and both the Benz SLR and Audi R8 have helped improve their respective company's images and badge value among the super rich.
Is the new M1 Concept a sign that BMW wants to capitalise on low-volume, ultra high performance super car models in the future to deliver a similar boost to its international image? Time will surely tell.
BMW (acronym in German for: B M otoro W ayerische erke, “Bavarian Motor Factory”) is a manufacturer German cars and motorcycles, headquartered in Munich . Its subsidiaries are Mini and Rolls-Royce . 4 BMW is the world leader in sales within the high-end manufacturers.
BMW's predecessor was the company Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH, founded in 1913 by Karl Rapp . They changed the name in April 1917 , first at BMW GmbH (limited company) to end at BMW AG, a year later after its conversion into a corporation. The first managing director was Franz Josef Popp , who remain in office for 20 years. The engineer Max Friz said the young company in 1917 to develop a jet engine high compression, through which could reduce the performance loss at high altitude. This innovation was so popular that BMW has received an order of 2,000 engines by the military administration of the Prussian . On June 17 of 1919 reached a record height of 9760 meters with a BMW IIIa . The end of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles seemed to be the final phase of the company, as the treaty banning the production for 5 years of aircraft engines, by then the only product of BMW. In 1922 Camillo Castiglioni , the main shareholder of the company left the company to go Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG (BFW), taking also the rights of the BMW brand.
The company was originally BFW company Flugzeugwerke Gustav Otto, who founded the March 7 , 1916 Gustav Otto , son of Nikolaus August Otto , inventor of the combustion engine. On March 7, 1916 is considered in the description of the history of the company, as the official date of founding of BMW. With the departure of the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke Castiglioni (BFW) would cease to rise to BMW. The company was called until then was renamed BMW -AG Süddeutsche Bremsen and after Knorr-Bremse , major industrial companies in the field of brakes.
5 imagen que fue utilizada por la empresa para una campaña publicitaria de 1929 6 ). The familiar blue and white BMW logo was created in 1917 when the company is still engaged in the manufacture of aircraft engines and symbolizes the flag of the Free State of Bavaria (erroneously believed to symbolize a spinning propeller on a blue sky, image that was used by the company for an advertising campaign of 1929 ).
A year after the name change in 1923, Max Friz and Martin Stolle developed the first BMW motorcycle, the R32, and laid the foundations of these forms for a new production line: motorcycles. Friz said only 5 weeks to developing the R32, which even then had the classic BMW two-engine cylinders mounted horizontally on both sides, fan-cooled (engine type “Boxer”). From 1924 he returned to produce aircraft engines. The Schienenzeppelin made in 1930 was powered by a BMW engine.
Now this is something you don’t get to see every day. A 1980 BMW M1 supercar shows up on eBay and it is quite unique. The one of 456 examples ever built has only 4,418 kilometers (2,747 miles) on the odometer and the owners claims to be in original condition.
According to the eBay listing, the M1 was “garaged for all of its life and pampered” in a German private residence, before it was imported in the United States having surpassed the 25-year age requirement.
The current bid is $201,000 (at 11:15 EST) and most likely, it will go up after our article goes live. A recent 1980 M1 sold for $250,000, so we expect a similar final sales price.
The M1 came to life in 1978 at the Paris Motor Show as the M divisions first ever creation.The M1 coupe was hand-built between 1978 and 1981 as a homologation special for sports car racing. The body was designed by Giugiaro, taking inspiration from the 1972 BMW Turbo show car.
At the time of its launch, it was one of the fastest and most dynamic cars on the market. It featured a 277 horsepower 3.5-liter straight-six engine and could reach speeds in excess of 160 mph. The redline came at 7,000 rpm and the M1 was capable of accelerating from 0-62 mph in 5.6 seconds
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BMW supercar tribute to their amazing 1970 BMW M1, will debut in Australia at Melbourne International Motor Show in February. BMW M1 Hommage was unveiled last year to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the original M1.
"We are pleased to announce the BMW M1 Homage Car Show arrives in Australia Melbourne International Motor Show," said BMW Group Australia managing director Guenther Seemann.
"BMW M1 Homage is a sensational looking car that talent show both the strong momentum of BMW Motorsport heritage, but also the competence of our designers who created the current look of the 21st century how a new generation of the BMW M1 could see. There is no doubt that the BMW M1 Homage is a draw card for visitors to Melbourne show, joining our new Twin Turbo V8 BMW 7 Series and X6 Sports Activity Coupe, "he said
In 1979, M1, powered by a 3.5-liter straight-six, was the fastest German sports car production. The car had been captured, in part, by car, the art of Andy Warhol, who has terrorized the track to make a single Procar Series, which is an F1 driver Niki Lauda and Nelson Piquet among its alumni.
More photos, including runners M1 at Hockenheim in the Nurburgring, with press materials are widely available after the jump.
The BMW M1 (E26) is a sports car that was produced by German automaker BMW from 1978 to 1981.
In the late 1970s, Italian manufacturer Lamborghini entered into an agreement with BMW to build a production racing car in sufficient quantity for homologation.[1][2] The result was sold to the public, from 1978 to 1981, as the BMW M1. It was the only mid-engined BMW to be mass produced. It employed a twin-cam M88/1 3.5 L 6-cylinder petrol engine with Kugelfischer mechanical fuel injection. A version of this motor was later used in the South African version of the BMW 745i, of which 209 examples were built between 1984 and 1986, as well as the E24 BMW M6/M635CSi and E28 BMW M5. The engine had six separate throttle butterflies, four valves per cylinder and produced 277 PS (204 kW; 273 hp) in the street version, giving a top speed of 260 km/h (160 mph). Turbocharged racing versions were capable of producing around 850 hp (634 kW).
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. A good blogger's dozen of them have been commissioned for BMW over the years, and every one of them has remained in the company's private collection. Except one.
That one is the M1 Procar you see here, painted by Frank Stella in 1979. It remains the only example in the series that was created for a private individual with BMW's blessing. After years in the Guggenheim, Bonhams auctioned it off a couple of months ago at Monterey for a whopping $854,000 – well above estimate.
So who bought it? Jonathan Sobel, owner of (among other interests) BMW of Southampton, way out at the eastern end of New York's Long Island. The dealership is just settling in to its new showroom on Montauk Highway, and that's where the M1 art car will be showcased for much of the new year ahead. So if your plans include a trip out to the Hamptons, you may want to stop by for a rare glimpse. Press release
In 1979 the head BMW Motorsport, Jochen Neerpasch, devised a one-make championship using racing modified M1s. The series was created to aid BMW in building enough M1s to enter the Group 4 classification in the World Championship for Makes. The new series, known as the Procar BMW M1 Championship, served as a support series for Formula One, and included many current Formula One drivers in identical cars.
The series ran for two years, with Niki Lauda winning the 1979 season, and Nelson Piquet the 1980 season. After BMW met the standards for Group 4, the Procars were used by various teams in the World Championship as well as other national series.In April 2008, BMW unveiled the M1 Homage Concept to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the M1. The concept vehicle uses a mid-engine layout and borrows styling cues from both the original M1 and the Turbo show car.[4]
The BMW Homage concept was released at the event Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d'Este 2008. The design was created by Giorgio Giugiaro who got his idea from the BMW Turbo concept which was designed by Paul Bracq. The BMW Turbo boasted many technical and advance innovations from BMW.[5] The front of the car differs the most than the other parts of the car. The front sports double head lights are not the pop up light that are on the original M1, but the usual trademark of the kidney grills made it onto the design of the car. The Hommage also incorporated the double badge in the back of the car as the original M1. There are no photos of the interior of the car or the car in action. The specifications of the car have not been released to the public. BMW has not confirmed if these will be released, although the the upcoming i8 model, which is based on the BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics concept, draws influence from the M1 Homage.
The wide stance, louvered rear window and pentagonal rims combine an '80s retro look with a contemporary, almost sinister feel for a car that pretty much every boy has wanted since adolescence. The front grille features two intakes for cooling and four hidden headlights. Take a close look at the photos after the jump because that's all you'll get for now as the new M1 is just a concept car. We'll keep our fingers crossed in hopes that it will go into production.
car, the BMW M1 Homage Concept.
The original M1 was built between 1978 and 1981, powered by a 3.5-litre inline 6-cylinder engine.
In the '80s, it was was a very attractive vehicle designed by Giugiaro, and to this day is one of the rarest BMW's ever with less than 500 cars ever built.
Over the weekend BMW surprised everyone at the prestigious Concorso D’Eleganza Villa D’Este event near lake Como in Italy with an intriguing M1 remake.
"For a company as for a product, it is important to be aware of one's roots," said Chris Bangle, director of design at BMW.
"In the spirit of Giugiaro and Bracq, the BMW M1 Homage unites the BMW values of design and technology in a highly emotional and exciting interpretation."
The design is wide and ultra-low, with a front end design with a strong retro look. The headlights have an Alfa Romeo touch, but overall it's a unique design.
BMW's design team has really gone to town on the new concept car, which features an amazing rear end, with a sculpted deck lid with rising edges that lead towards the upturned brake lights.
There are some aspects of the original 1980s M1 car in the new concept car's design, particularly in the overall profile. The unorthodox wheel design is likewise an homage to the first M1 sports car, as is the vented hood.
The original BMW M1 had a mid-mounted 6-cylinder engine that output just over 200kW of power, but the new concept BMW M1 is powered by a version of BMW's 5.0-litre V10, which has been tuned to output more than the standard 378kW of power.
While there has been talk that the BMW M1 concept car's V10 engine is front mounted, the air intakes in the lower rear side skirts and the vented slats where the rear window would suggest otherwise.
BMW's 'M' division was responsible for not only the engine tuning, but also the overall development of the retro concept car, which as the name suggests is an homage to the original M1 super car, celebrating it's 30th anniversary.
The question on everyone's lips is this: will it be built?
At the moment it is purely an exercise in styling for the BMW M division.
But following the Concept CS, another long and low concept that's rumoured for deployment in the near future, there is a small chance that BMW's top brass will be tasking the accountants to crunch the numbers to ascertain if it could develop the modern-day M1 super car without taking a serious financial hit.
If built, the new 10-cylinder BMW M1 would rival vehicles such as the Audi R8, Ferrari F430, Aston Martin V8 Vantage and Porsche 911 Carrera.
Arch rival Mercedes-Benz has the SLR super car and when production of the SLR ceases in 2009, the German car maker plans on releasing a new super car in 2010. Audi also has the R8 mid-engined sports car which has been a huge sales success, and both the Benz SLR and Audi R8 have helped improve their respective company's images and badge value among the super rich.
Is the new M1 Concept a sign that BMW wants to capitalise on low-volume, ultra high performance super car models in the future to deliver a similar boost to its international image? Time will surely tell.
BMW (acronym in German for: B M otoro W ayerische erke, “Bavarian Motor Factory”) is a manufacturer German cars and motorcycles, headquartered in Munich . Its subsidiaries are Mini and Rolls-Royce . 4 BMW is the world leader in sales within the high-end manufacturers.
BMW's predecessor was the company Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH, founded in 1913 by Karl Rapp . They changed the name in April 1917 , first at BMW GmbH (limited company) to end at BMW AG, a year later after its conversion into a corporation. The first managing director was Franz Josef Popp , who remain in office for 20 years. The engineer Max Friz said the young company in 1917 to develop a jet engine high compression, through which could reduce the performance loss at high altitude. This innovation was so popular that BMW has received an order of 2,000 engines by the military administration of the Prussian . On June 17 of 1919 reached a record height of 9760 meters with a BMW IIIa . The end of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles seemed to be the final phase of the company, as the treaty banning the production for 5 years of aircraft engines, by then the only product of BMW. In 1922 Camillo Castiglioni , the main shareholder of the company left the company to go Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG (BFW), taking also the rights of the BMW brand.
The company was originally BFW company Flugzeugwerke Gustav Otto, who founded the March 7 , 1916 Gustav Otto , son of Nikolaus August Otto , inventor of the combustion engine. On March 7, 1916 is considered in the description of the history of the company, as the official date of founding of BMW. With the departure of the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke Castiglioni (BFW) would cease to rise to BMW. The company was called until then was renamed BMW -AG Süddeutsche Bremsen and after Knorr-Bremse , major industrial companies in the field of brakes.
5 imagen que fue utilizada por la empresa para una campaña publicitaria de 1929 6 ). The familiar blue and white BMW logo was created in 1917 when the company is still engaged in the manufacture of aircraft engines and symbolizes the flag of the Free State of Bavaria (erroneously believed to symbolize a spinning propeller on a blue sky, image that was used by the company for an advertising campaign of 1929 ).
A year after the name change in 1923, Max Friz and Martin Stolle developed the first BMW motorcycle, the R32, and laid the foundations of these forms for a new production line: motorcycles. Friz said only 5 weeks to developing the R32, which even then had the classic BMW two-engine cylinders mounted horizontally on both sides, fan-cooled (engine type “Boxer”). From 1924 he returned to produce aircraft engines. The Schienenzeppelin made in 1930 was powered by a BMW engine.
Now this is something you don’t get to see every day. A 1980 BMW M1 supercar shows up on eBay and it is quite unique. The one of 456 examples ever built has only 4,418 kilometers (2,747 miles) on the odometer and the owners claims to be in original condition.
According to the eBay listing, the M1 was “garaged for all of its life and pampered” in a German private residence, before it was imported in the United States having surpassed the 25-year age requirement.
The current bid is $201,000 (at 11:15 EST) and most likely, it will go up after our article goes live. A recent 1980 M1 sold for $250,000, so we expect a similar final sales price.
The M1 came to life in 1978 at the Paris Motor Show as the M divisions first ever creation.The M1 coupe was hand-built between 1978 and 1981 as a homologation special for sports car racing. The body was designed by Giugiaro, taking inspiration from the 1972 BMW Turbo show car.
At the time of its launch, it was one of the fastest and most dynamic cars on the market. It featured a 277 horsepower 3.5-liter straight-six engine and could reach speeds in excess of 160 mph. The redline came at 7,000 rpm and the M1 was capable of accelerating from 0-62 mph in 5.6 seconds
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