I love big + fast cars. I know it’s conspicuous consumption run amok, but I would really like a 5,300 pound AMG 4-door with 600 hp and 738 lb-ft of thump-thump. Because, you know — why not? And while Mercedes is all too happy to give you the full monty S-Class — and Audi will [...]

Now there are three words we never thought we’d wrap into one title — BMW, green and supercar — but according to reports, the Bavarian company is putting its nose to the grindstone to crank out an R8 competitor. Expected to be a mid-engined, lightweight heathen, the car may snatch more than a few design [...]

Oh yes, the M1, the first of BMW’s M cars. In fact the bruiser straight-six in the first M5 is the same engine found mounted mid-ship in the M1. This particular looker was Styled by Garage Spezialkarosserien for the Prime Minister of Qatar! Though I wonder… does that sort of pedigree help or hurt? This [...]

We’re big fans of the BMW M1 around here. BMW’s first and, so far only mid-engined supercar was recently resurrected with the unveiling of the M1 Homage. But it was the BMW M1 Procar series that ran as a support series for the ’79 and ’80 F1 championship and pitted F1 stars against up-and-comers that [...]

Thirty-years ago the now legendary BMW M1 — a mid-engined, Giugiaro-penned supercar that was supposed to be built for the Bavarians by Lamborghini — rolled off the assembly line and into the hearts and minds of pistonheads everywhere. Less than 500 were ever made. The Motorsport division then got the idea to stuff the M1’s [...]

For most Gen Y’ers Scion started the Art Car movement with its patronage of the street scene and numerous collaborations by some of today’s leading graff artists decorating and customizing xB box cars seen on billboards and displayed at SEMA and Hot Import Nights car shows. But combining cars and art was actually an idea [...]