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Originally Posted by ///M4ster Yoda
Don't hate on me but can someone explain why the 1M is soooo lauded?? Because it was a limited car?
Wasn't it an ugly 1 series with an N54 in it? Don't get it. I laugh when I see dudes on the BMW CCA classifieds trying to get $70k for them.
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The cool thing about the 1M is that it was a “skunk works” project that the M division essentially made happen on their own. People were starting to think, even then, that the E90/92 were getting too big and less representative of what the M3 was all about.
Essentially, the 1M proved that there was still a market for an E36/46 sized M car. Was it ugly? Sure, from the front - but it looked good from the other angles. And without the 1M, there’s no M2, M2C, or M2CS.