Heh.

For those who don't know, here is the original 1979-1980 M1 of which only 450 were built:



If it looks like typical 70's Italian exotic with a vestigal kidney shaped grill, that's because it was designed by ItalDesign and was originally planned to be built by Lamborghini. Lamborghini went bankrupt and BMW had one supplier make the spaceframe and another the body, which were then shipped to a German coachbuilding company that did/does bimmer drop tops. The motor was a 3.5-liter BMW inline six which made 277 hp in street trim and 470 hp in race trim. The same basic motor was later used in the 635CSi and original M5.