• One of only some 450 built
• Delivered new in Germany
• Single family ownership from new until very recently
• Comprehensive mostly main-agent service history
• Registered in Germany

A proposed Group 5 'Silhouette Formula' for production-based cars triggered the M1 programme in the mid-1970s, a mid-engined concept car designed in-house at BMW by Paul Bracq providing the basis.

Head of BMW's newly formed Motorsport Division, former racing driver Jochen Neerpasch was responsible for masterminding this ambitious project, whose aims included taking on rivals Porsche in the World Sportscar Championship and, ultimately, victory at Le Mans.



M1 development was contracted first to Lamborghini and then to Giorgetto Giugiaro's Ital Design, although almost all cars ended up being built by BMW in Germany.

Giugiaro's compact coupé bodywork in glassfibre was wrapped around a multi-tubular spaceframe chassis, while a twin-overhead-cam, four-valves-per-cylinder version of BMW's 3.5-litre inlin...