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 ...

Historic BMW Sauber M1 Group 5 stands as the only surviving purpose-built model from its class.

The BMW M1 is historic for its successes and for its failures. The final production car and subsequent race cars weren’t what BMW initially intended and yet today, they’re among some of the most ...

The i8 plug-in supercar wasn’t the first mid-engine production car to wear the BMW roundel. The original comes in the guise of the M1, the first road-going car in the Bavarian automaker’s history to ...

The M1 might not have had the immediate impact that Jochen Neerpasch and the crew at BMW Motorsport had intended during its development, but it remains one of the most sought-after and valuable ...

As supercar powerhouses turn to plug-in hybrid tech and all-wheel drive for improved performance, BMW’s available technology is more than capable of competing. The M1 was like a flag planted in the ...