It was a BMW unlike any that had been made before. The first production car to wear the motorsports-focused M division’s badge, the BMW M1 set the stage for generations of M cars to come. It was a ...

Although the original BMW M1 was in production for only a few short years, its impact was enormous.

The BMW M1 Procar delivers a raw straight-six engine symphony with individual throttle bodies and an unrestricted exhaust, ...

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 use ...

For the first time in North America, BMW will display Andy Warhol’s 1979 M1 Art Car and Julie Mehretu’s M Hybrid V8 Art Car side-by-side at Monterey Car Week. BMW is pulling out all the stops for the ...

As probably the only true supercar made by BMW, the M1 became one of the biggest automotive legends but, unfortunately, a car that is not very talked-about these days. To understand better, we need to ...

One of just three BMW M1s to leave the factory painted in silver is heading to the auction block next month and is expected to sell for between $750,000 and $950,000. Is this the ultimate 1980s ...

From 1978 to 1981, BMW offered the M1, but in the quarter-century since the mid-engine supercar went out of production, ...

Once upon a time, BMW's M division stood for Motorsport. It was a petrol-infused dream of racing cars for the road. Nowadays, you can find the once sought-after badge on front-wheel drive econoboxes, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s your chance to buy an incredible-looking version of BMW’s first M road car. A gorgeous 1980 M1 is currently up for grabs on ...

The BMW M1 is almost universally admired today for its good looks and surprising performance. But in almost every other way, it was, in its day, a failure for BMW and the reasons why help explain why ...

The BMW M1 Procar was a racing version of the iconic M1 supercar built for a short lived one-make series. Only a small number of originals were built, but one of the mechanics who worked on them has ...