Cool.

The front end of that thing looks like a cross between an ’80s Trans Am, a Challenger, and Bugs Bunny.

The Audi R8 has them ticked off. Their pettiness makes us very lucky.

Now this is going to get good. First it was the RS6 vs M5 VS E- class AMG now its going to be the Audi R8 vs BMW M1 vs MB SLC. I tell ya those Germans are wacky. It almost brings me to tears.

Cars that look like doorstops bore the piss out of me.

OMG!!!..My heart stopped when I read this, I love this car…everyone complains, about something, and its sad, that people have to find something wrong with everything..but this car is gorgeous…

Best news i’ve heard in a while!!! I loved the M1, and this is just what BMW needs. Couldn’t be a better time either… Any chance in their being a Warhol edition???

in there*

Need4SSpeed:

Uh no, Warhol’s dead…..

Heard it will get the twin turbo inline 6 for a base, then the M3’s V8 and the M5’s V10, which means lots of options and a huge difference in power and price, though I would not rule out the X6’s twin turbo V8 ending up under this car.

Hmm… A V10 M1 would be delightful!!! And would probably cost an arm and a leg as well. Although with the possibility of all these optional powertrains as NoNameDenton1 says that would be cool. Even a TT I6 M1 would be pretty tight!

@melias, true but his artwork lives on!

Need4SSpeed

Sorry! I couldn’t resist!

I am a fan of The Factory….

melias

^ lol Good stuff…

johnnycanuck: thanks for the laugh. I agree.

Johnny, I though it is a submarine missing a periscope. Can it float?

This is awesome news. It’s about time. BMW can’t sit out the race between the SLC and R8.

The I6, M3 V8, and M5 V10 would make sense as engine choices because that puts it at 300, 400, and 500hp repectively.

I just can’t wait to drive one.

Well remember eliteski2, the next BMW V10 grows to about 5.5 liters and gets twin turbos, and BMW also has the twin turbo 4.4 liter V8 in their arsenal to use.

^ NoName, the 4.4 TT is too pedestrian for this app. I think they’ll massage the V10 and get 600+ hp out of it. After all, it has to be their halo car

The 4.4 TT is pedestrian, you might be the only one who thinks so, since that engine can put out hp to match the V10.

Maybe so, NoName, but it doesn’t change the fact that a V8 in the halo car of a company that produces V10s and V12s sounds dowdy, especially when this stratum of exotics is littered with V12s.

As with anything, image invades the equation at these prices. Otherwise everyone with a spare million to burn would be rolling around in the 911 GT2.

If they have to sell X6s to come up with this, i say bring it on!

There is Italian school of design related to super cars, there is Aston and here we have Chris Bangle’s down syndrome child. This is very sick looking thing.

Remember this is only the M1 concept, I’m sure the proportions will be re-worked seeing that this does look like a dump trunk was dropped on it. I don’t know how anyone can fit in this. But still awesome looking! I hope they keep the overall design.

Halo cars are a beautiful thing………… this isn’t. Are they letting their engineers choose their new designers, or what?

It was ugly the first time I saw it, and it’s just as ugly now that we hear about production plans. The other thing to consider is that with all this talk of TT V8’s, V10’s, etc., does anyone realise that CAFE will force these to be Euro only cars? There is no way BMW can keep building the cars and SUV’s they do and add a supercar to that list, and still come within an inch of the shadow of CAFE. Not even the Mini can help them here. For every M1, there must be an Isetta.

Two things to easily fix:
1. The wheels are obviously pure fantasy. They would weigh a ton each and a pebble in the road would cause a blowout. I’d sub in the wheels from the M6
2. Remove the chrome from the iconic BMW grille. I’d black it out.

If I had photoshop skills I’d make these changes. Alas, all I have is MSPaint!

I don’t know what horrors CAFE will do, but price of juice for those cars may force them to a limited quantities. Every place I consult secy’s drive BMW, unless they are hairy lesbians. Price of gas certainly will affect BMW more then Ferrari (secy’s and their significant others cant spell Ferrari – too many letters, and therefore can’t find dealer).

Madcapp, doorstop cars have their charm… But mainly in the oldschool formats…

Bring on the training shoe CRX

global_lightning: it’s not a m6, it’s an alpina ’cause they’re bad ass. Just don’t zoom it, it’s 5min crapply made:
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/952/m1alpinaaj2.jpg

Syrax:
Thanks, much better than I could do! The wheels make a huge difference, in the original they’re way to obnoxious.

This looks like something Vector would have built fifteen years ago.

The turbos help the emissions and give a smaller engine the power of a larger engine without the fuel consumption issues, which is becoming more important, so we will see the 4.4 TT used more often.

Plain and simple, this thing is horrid.