Quote Originally Posted by endo..jay
Baur, i think was guna be Lambo but at the time they were too poor

im pretty sure the M stands for mid-engine could be wrong though
Yes, both are correct! Lamborghini did design and style the car.

Even though the M1 achieved great success in the racing circuits, because of it complicated and troubled production process with Lamborghini and the fact that parts of the car were being built all over the place in a handful of different plants, (they were only able to make about 2 cars a week!!!) the BMW execs decided they hated it even before the first one rolled off the production line. Because of this BMW decided to drop their whole mid-engine car line plans and changed the ??M? from meaning ??mid-engine? to ??Motorsport?.

To this day BMW has never made another production mid-engine car.