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BMW updates classic M1 sports car

dvice.com — "BMW today is proudly — boastfully — showing its M1 Homage, a tribute to a legendary super-sports car that began production 30 years ago. This M1, however, is only a concept."

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  • threemagic, on 04/30/2008, -27/+35That's one concept car that should be made...it's just beautiful
  • IKE33, on 04/30/2008, -35/+52That's one concept car that should not be made... it's just completely hideous.
    • GeorgeStone2, on 04/30/2008, -8/+7I 100% agree with you. It looks ghastly.
    • ChuckIT, on 04/30/2008, -10/+7yes, i agree too. those rims are really awful
      • jd1972, on 04/30/2008, -6/+5I second that. I expect better from their engineers.
        • altinnovation, on 04/30/2008, -7/+4Stupid fanboys are digging other people's oppinions down. Do you see me downmodding people that say it's beautiful?
          I agree though, it looks a little off to me.
          • moofer, on 04/30/2008, -2/+4That's kinda how digg works. Digg up the people you agree with, down the ones you don't. You new here?

            BTW... dugg you down. I think the car is beautiful.
      • bowe, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1reminds me of the hideous 1999 GTO concept
        http://www.seriouswheels.com/cars/top-1999-Pontiac ...
  • RubineBoy, on 04/30/2008, -10/+7Sigh ... And I will never have the money to buy that gorgeous thing on wheels.
  • nvisn, on 04/30/2008, -13/+14It looks like an 8 Series - aka The Hottest Bimmer ever!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_8_Series
    • moofer, on 04/30/2008, -2/+2Uh... I think you missed the entire point of the car, the article, the title of the article, etc... It's a remake of the M1: http://supercar.area0.biz/img/bmw/M1.jpg

      The 8 series was a front engine 2+2 coupe, and looks absolutely nothing like this car.
    • rizzo2008, on 04/30/2008, -1/+1Except the 8 series looked decent but this does not
  • Acronym, on 04/30/2008, -7/+1that looks awesome, but if it was a real car...I'd probably have to spend half my life working just to get one...so better to keep it as a concept IMHO.
  • zyklon, on 04/30/2008, -9/+10I have no words for how beautiful they've made an already beautiful car. I think I've found my new love. Hopefully I don't have to sell my left kidney to buy it.
  • CannedCorn, on 04/30/2008, -12/+1OGC
    • CannedCorn, on 04/30/2008, -3/+1WHY?! you know you are doing the same thing.
  • lektroluv, on 04/30/2008, -12/+1Eeeh, what's up, doc?
  • moocowrat, on 04/30/2008, -7/+31i'd love to wrap that around a telephone pole.
  • d1a1s1, on 04/30/2008, -12/+10Gorgeous lines, but those wheels....what on earth were they thinking?! Looks like something a kid made in his garage to "pimp" his ride.
    • dmurray14, on 04/30/2008, -4/+6Um, they were thinking its a homage to the original M1, which had similar wheels...
      • crashlock, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Maybe but that still doesn't save them from being ugly UFO pimp *****.
  • hokie47, on 04/30/2008, -12/+6I hate it.
  • pappas215, on 04/30/2008, -4/+6sick!
  • fahrvergnuugen, on 04/30/2008, -4/+10This is soooo much better than the ridiculous "flame" design of their current line up.
  • etnuts, on 04/30/2008, -2/+12it looks like a muscle car built buy europeans

    and i mean that in a good way
    • RubineBoy, on 04/30/2008, -1/+5THANKS!
      But an american muscle car would be affordable, a european one not.
    • FapCommander, on 04/30/2008, -1/+9So it's faster and can go round corners
      • cawpin, on 04/30/2008, -4/+31 word...Corvette
        • dsmx, on 04/30/2008, -0/+2Pity the corvette is given suspension so hard that you can't drive it on roads, round a track it's fine though but it will still be beaten by an Ariel Atom.
  • marksweb, on 04/30/2008, -7/+1wtf. the 1 series is tiny. thats huge. thats like a hideous cousin of the regular BMWs like an M10 - the fat ugly one :D
    • OisinT, on 04/30/2008, -0/+3uh. the m1 is not related to the 1series currently out.
    • RealHyperX, on 04/30/2008, -0/+3And like I pointed out in my column, this will confuse a lot of car folks.
      • OisinT, on 04/30/2008, -0/+2it'll confuse a lot of non car folks imo. most people who like cars will know of the original m1
  • gokusan72, on 04/30/2008, -5/+2I think this car is awesome :) This will guarantee to have amazing girls like this :) http://www.worldpaidshop.com/gp/car-insurance/car- ...
  • TylerDCA, on 04/30/2008, -6/+2The M3 is nicer looking. sigh....
  • happybot, on 04/30/2008, -0/+6It looks like an angry bull flaring its nostrils.
  • Gloibin, on 04/30/2008, -0/+8A few days late, but great to see a tribute to one of the most inadvertently storied cars in existence.

    Oh, and original M1 in white with ///M colored stripes = win.
  • shouldnot, on 04/30/2008, -4/+6oh bmw you did it again, just a beautiful car
  • SonicTitan, on 04/30/2008, -1/+4Gorgeous, except for the wheels. But then I never did like the ones on the original M1, so as a homage I guess it works well.
  • leto78, on 04/30/2008, -3/+5The car looks great but they should fire the guy that did the 3D rendering. It doesn't look at all like it is part of the environment. The light and the shadows are all wrong.
  • jzuska, on 04/30/2008, -0/+4Same wheels from the 80's?
    • 80hd, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Everything is returning to 80's styling.
      Remind me not to buy a car in the next decade
  • Ninjao, on 04/30/2008, -1/+3I really hope they push the performance on this one. It's been awhile since BMW have made an extreme performance car.
    • OisinT, on 04/30/2008, -1/+1IDK the new M3 is faster than ***** and drives amazingly/.
  • MrFurious2k, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1It's interesting, but I don't find it inspiring. I still really like the look of the M5, but this car looks like the engineering team was trying too hard. It doesn't seem to have the graceful elegance of some of their Italian brethren or the brute lines of an American muscle car. It's like the car isn't quite sure what it wants to be and ultimately fails at captivating the viewer.
  • bigsteve, on 04/30/2008, -1/+2I don't know, I've never been a big fan of the Lamborghini exotic look.

    And for the price of one of those, I could probably buy, restore, upgrade, and paint enough 1987 Buick Turbo Regals to match every color of shirt in my closet, and probably end up with a faster car...
    • scarwars, on 04/30/2008, -2/+3and that is why Americans keep making those horrible looking cars..just for peeps like you
      • bigsteve, on 04/30/2008, -2/+1Keep making? The car I'm referring to is 21 years old.

        And beautiful.
  • Wonderama, on 04/30/2008, -2/+0"It's only a model."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_%28Monty_Python ...
  • gincarnated, on 04/30/2008, -1/+2ugly.
  • GeorgeStone2, on 04/30/2008, -3/+1Hahaha, seems Digg users are BMW fanboys.
    Seeing as most negative comments are in the -.
  • smacksaw, on 04/30/2008, -1/+1I love the BMW propeller on the rear left decklid. That's pretty sweet.

    It really evokes a lot of the X6.
  • synagence, on 04/30/2008, -2/+5One word.... fugly
  • icexe, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1i like everything about it...except the wheels..way too blingy
  • rommelbhargava, on 04/30/2008, -0/+0thats fake :)
    • n3tfury, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1you're an idiot. what don't you get about the word "concept"
      • rommelbhargava, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0u r doudle idiot aka chootiya
        its not even concept
  • RobertGoulet, on 04/30/2008, -3/+4That..... is the ugliest thing i have ever seen.
    • drastik21, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1I've seen some uglier concept cars in my time.
  • n3tfury, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1M cars ftw.
  • eavesdrop, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1BMW M1 is a legend but this body is ugly, hopefully what ends up being produced for customers is nothing like this.
  • CLYF, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1I came.
  • zhlimnick, on 04/30/2008, -1/+1bmw is lucky its just a concept...audi's r8 is way prettier and its on the road already
    • BigPapi, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1The R8's a great car, but I wouldn't exactly call it pretty.
  • icecycles, on 04/30/2008, -0/+3The car is great, but the rims are terrible
  • BXRWXR, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1I think it looks cool.
  • CrunchyDeluxe, on 04/30/2008, -0/+2Eh... that front end looks too much like the new Camaro... but ugly.
  • 80hd, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1I don't know. Reminds me of Knight rider
  • maskedm564, on 04/30/2008, -1/+1What have the BMW design team been smoking lately? Is it just me or are their cars getting uglier each year?
  • rizzo2008, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1looks horrible. Terrible homage to a fantastic car
  • namelessNN, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1lol this has to be a joke. that thing is hideous.
  • coolbru, on 04/30/2008, -0/+2Looks like a flattened deTomaso Pantera.
  • crashlock, on 04/30/2008, -2/+1GAY WHEELS ACTIVATED!!!
  • kylesherman, on 04/30/2008, -1/+1Any diggers going to Bimmerfest in Santa Barbara on May 3?
  • Roguecop, on 04/30/2008, -0/+2Clarkson will probably rip it to shreds but just wait till 'The Stig' gets his hand on it.
  • abupu, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0More info on the car here:

    http://www.pressportal.com.au/news/186/ARTICLE/184 ...
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