While most car enthusiasts will be aware of the M1 and its history, one of the cars that inspired it is far less known: the BMW Turbo concept, which was released six years before the M1.

In the early 1970s BMW's chief designer was a frenchman. His name was Paul Braque and he created a series of innovative cars including the one that provided the basis for BMW's M1, the only ...

it lacked the Turbo’s explosive punch. The racing series in which the M1 was intended to compete never panned out, so BMW created its own, M1-only series called Procar. Alas, it failed to ...

Hans-Joachim Stuck's Personal 3.0 CSL Is for Sale The BMW M1 Is An Exotic Free of Compromises First Drive: BMW 2002 Turbo A piece with the Vierzylinder was the Turbo concept, a bold answer to the ...

The predecessor of the M1 uses Bosch Kugelfischer mechanical ... 8:1 compression ratio as the 2002 Turbo. BMW quotes 280 ps (276 hp) in this application versus 170 ps (168 horsepower) and 240 ...

The BMW M1 Hommage blends a wide, aggressive stance with intentionally retro/modern twists on the key visual elements that defined Paul Bracq’s original BMW Turbo concept and the Giugiaro ...

BMW's legendary M1 supercar could have got an electric reboot, ... It is thought that the twin-turbo S68 V8 in the BMW X7 ...

Probably something resembling a mashup between the M1 Homage Concept and the Vision ... the new supercar – which will pair BMW’s 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8 with two electric motors – should ...

The name we're hearing for it, by the way, is 1M, to avoid confusion with the iconic BMW M1 supercar. So the Z4 turbo four will be an M too, right? Hold on: Willisch was adamant that there would ...

Arguably, the M1 is BMW's one and only true supercar, with its closest successor, the i8, never quite offering the same level of performance. As such, ... BMW 2002 Turbo. BMW.