Syed

Hey guys, i came across an M1 on autotrader. I didnt even know this thing existed.

http://www.trader.ca/powerpage/detai...4&adid=6081162

srika

thats pretty sweet its on autotrader tho, there cant be too many on there, if not only this one.

edit: its not *the* autotrader.. but still.

o1s

i've only seen one in person. seen a few on tv shows and documentaries.

xxpnoiboi03xx

wow nice find. not that great of a car, but still a legend in its own right.

srika

ive seen a couple, in case anybody was wondering. pretty sweet, best bmw.

ZtotallynakedZ

There was one getting work done at the little tiny local garage. It was beautiful!

JCVTLS

OK....Just a question.....Where do you get your information? If you knew anything about the M1 then you would know that your statement is pure BS.

Yumcha

I <3 the M1.

Sdog2012

there was a guy that had a white one around here a while back. pretty sweet car but i hear they are pretty much junk

wasupdog

iTrader: (2)

oh good it's only $159,900.00. i think i'll pick up a black one and a white one.

TSXey

Rosen BMW has a white M1 that I see driving around the neighborhood once in a while. It used to be on their showroom floor at the Bala Cynwyd dealership.

Marc S

never knew the M1 existed. learn somethin new everyday

mattg

there's a pristine orange M1 at the BMW dealer here in town. pretty neat.

Brandon24pdx

Rare. Far less than 1000 built by Lamborghini for BMW IIRC. The body was drawn by famous Italian automobile designer Pinin Farina, so it's considered a highly collectable car even though it was not at all a popular seller.

Brandon24pdx

Actually it wasnt Pininfarina that designed it...some other (very notable) Italian designer. (looked it up).

Anyway, interesting piece of history...

charliemike

Guigiaro is my guess.

Yup. Giorgetto Guigiaro's Ital Design

JCVTLS

455 cars built to be exact. The designer was Giorgetto Giugiaro, and the car was to be built by Lambo, but was instead built by Baur.

treyster

I'm sorry, but that car looks real dated. I'd rather have a 850csi

aaronnn

isnt that the one that lamborghini started right before they went bust for a while? and then BMW took it back to finish it up and never really became a hit seller because of it?

but because it was designed by those famous designers back in the day it became a huge collector item now? that design though.. is a timeless classic...

Syed

hey guys i wanted to know if ital design or something like that acutally exists. i remember in need for speed 1 or 2 there was a car by the name of ital design. i think that was the name. last time i played nfs was like ages ago but i foget the name. not sure if its called ital design. it looked like a silver bullet. have any of you guys seen it on road or as a show car? no one ever mentions that car. i dont even think that car is available to the public.

spdy0001

Were you home schooled?

TSXey

maybe instead of paying attention to the teacher he was playing NFS

But in case you don't know, ItalDesign is also known as Giugiaro spa, the Italian design house. I'm sure you notice Giugiaro mentioned above.

TSXey

Not sure which ItalDesign car you mean since they designed so many. But many, if not most, including the BMW M1, had that distictive Giugiaro wedge design; sometimes it got to be too much for me, other ones I liked. Other than the M1 other examples of their designs:

the Aztec in 1988:


or the Aspid same year:


or the Ford Maya in 1984:


or the Delorean in 1981:


1974 Maserati by ItalDesign:


or the 1972 Maserati Merak:


or their 1972 Lotus Esprit:


or their 1969 Alfa Romea Iguana:


or 1968 Bizzarrini Manta:

ZeroCL

Ew, that Aspid is sick. I want one.

Costco

The M1 is sick. I remember seeing a lot of posters of the race-prepped M1 when I was younger. For some reason they were so popular that the posters still stayed years after the car stopped production.... either that or people were too lazy to take them down.

Speaking of Italdesign and Need for Speed, my favorite Italdesign car ever is the Italdesign BMW Nazca C2. If I was a billionaire I would give them $100 million to build the C2 for me. Or maybe a successor to it...

FutureBagdA4

you're thinking of the Schigera

SpeedyV6

I wonder why the engine needed to be rebuilt when it only had ~ 25K miles on it. I saw the same thing when I was looking at used air-cooled 911's & 911turbos a few years back. There were so many cars with 30-50K miles on the odometer that had their engines rebuilt.

Syed

i came across the cala while searching for the car im looking for. the car from nfs. this is one of my favorite cars.

http://www.lamborghiniregistry.com/Cala/index.html

and i think this was the one i was talking about which was in nfs.

http://bunnik.club.fr/G-ITZZ4002.jpg