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Beautiful BMW 1M Coupe Photoshoot Is Your Wallpaper Source

The South African market sees to a large BMW community, possibly one of the biggest in the world. It’s also understandable since the German company has a plant in the African country since 1968, in Rosslyn, near Pretoria.
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That’s where, to this day, Bimmers are being made to the highest standards. Today, we’re taking a look at three rare birds, part of the 1M Coupe range that was built in limited numbers.

Initially meant to be built in just 2,700 units, as an homage to the original E30 M3, sticking to the 50:50 weight distribution recipe and packing the car with great balance and more power than it needed. However, the impressive demand convinced the Germans to make 6,331 units out of which only 6,309 were ever sold, the rest being used in other purposes.

The car weighs just 1,495 kg (3,296 lbs) and has a 3-liter biturbo engine under the bonnet making 340 HP and 450 Nm (332 lb-ft) of torque, going up to 500 Nm (369 lb-ft) for short periods of time thanks to overboost.

The only available drivetrain was a sweet 6-speed manual gearbox hooked up to a good-old limited-slip differential. That meant that you could do outrageous things with it and it wouldn’t even budge.

The thing is, there were only 3 colors available for this model: Valencia Orange, Sapphire Black and Alpine White and all of them are showcased in the gallery below. My personal favorite is the Valencia Orange but the other two could do just as well.

Another interesting trivia fact about the 1M is its naming. Contrary to the usual naming scheme applied at BMW, the car wasn’t named M1 as it should’ve out of respect for the iconic, original car built back in the 70s by BMW, the only one that could ever be called a supercar and wear the roundel on its bonnet.

Furthermore, the naming ‘anomalies’ continued when it came down to the engine. Usually, the M division doesn’t use conventional coding for its engines and all of their units’ names have an “S” in front of their code, a tradition started back in the 80s with the S14 unit used in the E30 M3. On this car though, they decided to stick to the N54 name the ‘normal’ 3-liter unit had, even though it was mildly modified. The non-M version went on to win five consecutive International Engine of the Year Awards and three straight Ward’s 10 Best Engines awards so it didn’t need too many changes.

Via: Divivio/Flickr
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