Asked what they'd build with an open checkbook, two BMW M bosses gave the very same one-word answer ...

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 ...

The BMW M1 is nearly 50 years old, and the automaker can’t stop thinking about it.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The three-time Formula 1 World Champion was awarded this special BMW M1 for winning a 1979 one-make series. In 1978, BMW introduced the M1, a supercar often regarded as the origin story of the brand’s ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

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 ...

A BMW M1 built for and owned by legendary Formula 1 racer Niki Lauda is heading to auction via Mecum next month—and it could fetch almost $700,000. The marque began production of the M1—its first car ...

This month BMW M is celebrating 50 years of existence. That's half a century since a rather modest debut, with a total of 35 employees. Half a century in which M became "the most powerful letter in ...