40 Years of BMW M Production Cars

In May of 1972, Bayerische Motoren Werke, more commonly known as BMW, gave birth to a very special division that would not only shape the company's future products, both on the road and on the track, but also inspire its main rivals to follow its example. That subdivision was BMW Motorsport GmbH.
During the presentation of the M brand in 1972, BMW AG Board Member Robert A. Lutz (yes, the same man the younger generation came to know from his work at GM) said:
"A company is like a human being. As long as it goes in for sports, it is fit, well-trained, full of enthusiasm and performance. With sports always being a driving force at BMW, also while the Company was developing dynamically in the business world, it was only obvious at this point that we should concentrate and consolidate our activities in motor sport.”
Over the past forty years, the M division, which is now officially called BMW M GmbH, has left its mark on motorsports and created a raft of production sports cars of all shapes and sizes.
As a first of many tributes to the brand's 40th anniversary, BMW has dropped a selection of photos, which you can check out in detail in our gallery right past the break. And while you are at it, feel free to tell us which is your most and least favorite M car of all times.

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New BMW 3-Series/4-Series Coupe Digitally Imagined

Last month, spy photographers captured the first pictures of the car that will eventually replace the current BMW 3-Series Coupe, and which may or may not carry a new 4-Series Coupe moniker, while testing in Germany. Naturally, as with any early prototype, the coupe was slathered in the usual psychedelic swirl favored by the likes of BMW and other German carmakers.
Using these first scoop pictures as well as some basic styling elements from the recently revealed F30 3-Series sedan as a guide, F30Post forum member Wildspeed crafted a rendering of the next-generation Coupe model, which he then produced in numerous colors for our viewing pleasure.
Regardless of the name and the styling specifics, the 3-Series Coupe's replacement will borrow its basic platform architecture and engine lineup straight from the F30 saloon.
Among other available powerplants, the coupe model will be offered with a selection of turbocharged four-cylinder gasoline engines including a 1.6-liter unit for Europe and a global 2.0-liter with up to 240HP at launch and a 3.0-liter turbocharged inline-six with 300HP (306HP in the EU). Most markets will also get 2.0-liter four-cylinder and 3.0-liter inline-six turbo diesels.
And like the F30 sedan, once production is underway, BMW will offer the coupe with its xDrive all-wheel drive system and of course, in M3/M4 trim.
Story References: F30Post/Wildspeed

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BMW Concept 5 Series ActiveHybrid

BMW Abstraction 5 Series ActiveHybrid is a abstraction which is based on the new BMW 5 Series Sedan. This new abstraction car presents for the aboriginal time the abutting bearing of BMW ActiveHybrid technology and offers a predominantly acceptable arrangement of the new BMW 5 Series Sedan in all its dynamic, able and avant-garde qualities. At the aforementioned time, it additionally represents the advancing development of the BMW ActiveHybrid X6 and the BMW ActiveHybrid 7 with their drivetrain technology already in production

BMW Concept 5 Series ActiveHybrid

BMW Concept 5 Series ActiveHybrid Engine

  G-Power BMW 760i Storm Spec

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G-POWER 760i STORM is alone accessible in a actual bound copy of alone 10 cars all-embracing and is offered at an all-embracing amount of € 365,000 (net) from the G-POWER branch in Autenzell. The continued adaptation G-POWER 760iL STORM F02 can be acquired at a customs of € 10,000.