The BMW 1M would be a big success story for the company. But some 15 years earlier BMW was tinkering with the very same idea.

Traditionally, at least prior to 15 years ago, a BMW M car always featured some form of naturally aspirated engine. Be it the peppy four-pot unit that found favour in the maiden E30 M3 in the late ...

25 Aug 2015, 17:26 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica // The BMW 1M Coupe is still a beauty and a mad brute when needed as this 500+ HP car from Aulitzky Tuning proves in this video 26 Nov 2014, 16:57 UTC · By: ...

His automotive adventure started reporting on various motorsport events as a sports writer before moving onto a full-time auto career with various sites, including This Week In Motors and ...

After working predominantly as a freelancer at CarHP/CarIndigo, Amreetam joined the TopSpeed team as a journalist in September 2021. In a world where SUVs are booming, he favors sedans and adores BMWs ...

For years now, G-Power has been churning out high-horsepower BMW s from its tuning factory, and the newest creation is its take on the sporty 1M model. The German engineers at G-Power went straight to ...

As BMW is preparing to unleash the E82 1M coupe model, automotive designer Jon Sibal is offering us the subject of an even hotter dream, hinting that the vehicle could get an even more ...

There's no doubting the BMW 1M Coupe's performance potential. Packing a 335-hp twin-turbo 3.0-liter I-6 and a shorter wheelbase than the M3, the 1M is a wickedly good performer as we've outlined in ...

When BMW introduced the 1M back in 2011, it looked like BMW was tapping directly into its old roots of small, nimble and raucous two-door performance cars. And in a world slowly filling with ...

Based on the BMW 1 Series, the 1 Series M takes its place among M performance versions of the 3, 5 and 6 Series cars and the X5 and X6 SUVs. Though the name “M1” seems a natural, BMW used that moniker ...

As one of the “purest” modern-day BMWs, the 1M serves as proof that you don’t need a lot of power or a great deal of exterior mods to put together an awesome looking package. It’s small, it’s wide ...