Hopefully you've seen across PH social media that we have a BMW 1 M Coupe in at the moment. There will be a full PH Hero story on it in due course, plus a great deal more excitement about the car until then. It has rather captivated those who have driven it thus far.
On conventional naming strategy it should have been called M1 but of course that had been done previously. And how. This is not the place to detail the M1 story, instead to briefly celebrate the glorious Procar racers spawned from the road car. Using a 470hp version of the road car's straight-six, the M1 Procars raced in an F1 support series for 1979 and 1980.
Oh, that straight-six. The BMW M88 is pretty special in its road car installations but this racing version is something else again. Apparently it revs to 9,000rpm. The noise is divine. Fortunately this video is decent quality so you get the full effect. There's a case for this being the best straight-six noise in the world, in my humble opinion of course. See below for proof!
Vid here (headphones advised...).