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Widebody BMW M1 Digitally Comes Back to Life As a Slammed Mid-Engine Euro King

Once upon a time, BMW, a premium German automaker, wasn't making a fool of itself with insipidly designed EV flagships or hugely pointless grilles for its very nice M3 and M4 high-performance fighters. Okay, it had no EV flagships or M4 models back in the day, but you get my drift. Back then, the Bavarians were in the business of making proper sports cars, such as the mid-engine BMW M1.
Widebody BMW M1 bagged render by yasiddesign on Instagram 4 photos
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Widebody BMW M1 bagged render by yasiddesign on InstagramWidebody BMW M1 bagged render by yasiddesign on InstagramWidebody BMW M1 bagged render by yasiddesign on Instagram
Now it’s not our place to slap its current design team in the face so directly. Instead, we’re ready for a subtle detour through the merry land of virtual designs. There, pixel master Al Yasid (a.k.a. yasiddesign on social media) has presented the CGI take on a possible revival or restomod of the late 1970s–early 1980s M1 wonder.

Unlike other digital creations, this one isn’t slated for a custom build, unfortunately. So, we’re just going to keep dreaming about the moment when BMW produces a third mid-engine car (M1 was first, the i8 was the second). That would be a great day to see a BMW properly compete against something like the outstanding C8 Chevy Corvette.

But let’s not digress back into the real world. We need to stay focused on the modern alternate reality where somebody would have this M1 as a daily driver. Why not? After all, it easily touches upon many of the current aftermarket tropes.

Thus, the virtual build comes with an enticingly extreme widebody kit, a tantalizingly slammed atmosphere courtesy of the bagged suspension, and even a couple of left-and-right white and blue badges in the rear to make sure no one mistakes it for something else (but just as cool) from the era.

Unfortunately, as is the case with many of these digital builds, the “blasphemousmakeover doesn’t include an abundance of technical details, so we have no idea what’s cooking in the middle of the car in terms of horsepower. After all, the artist did have the courtesy of pinpointing the obvious stance and aero kit, so what more do we really want from him?


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About the author: Aurel Niculescu
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Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution.
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