According to a Wikipedia - The M1 coupe was hand-built between 1978 - 1981 under the Motorsport division of BMW as a homologation special for sports car racing. The body was designed by Giugiaro of Italdesign, taking inspiration from the 1972 BMW Turbo show car.

Perhaps we ought to meet at Le Mans next year as I may come as well. Then I can tell you more.

Considered by whom to be an evolution? A journalist, perhaps...? The only similarity - the Audi Sport UK Audi is a Coupé and the Bentley Speed 8 is also a Coupé. That’s about it.

A Renault Alpine 110-50 tie, perhaps . . .

Perhaps since 24-Hours of Le Mans STARTS this coming Saturday . . .

The Audi Sport UK Audi Coupé was a TOTALLY DIFFERENT CAR.

Just look a the GT40 photo bellow and the glorious looking but by that time very inefficient for a win, quite obviously underpowered and undertired Ferrari 275 GTB.

Even though powered by a V8 Audi engine . . .

Oh, needless to say, Bentley Speed 8 = Audi R8 with a Coupé bodywork...

A marketing exercise, to be sure.

Much, much prettier in real issue, no doubt...

Not nearly as sophisticated as the Audi R8, the PORSCHE LMP project was cancelled by P AG’s head man at that time. It surely turned up to be a correct decision to channel the intended LMP development funds to the highly successful and equally profitable Cayenne project instead. Than, after all was well again, the LMP…

Gorgeous looking car. What a shame it lives no longer. Whoever ordered it scrapped had no heart, quite obviously...

Read your article just now. How sad :-(

CORRECTION - 1999 CLR LM is indeed the correct nomenclature for the latter version. Not a CLK.

YES, you are absolutely correct.

As my father used to say, “You can have the BEST car, the BEST preparation, the BEST driver, the BEST team but to WIN, you also need a bit of LUCK.”

Which of Mr. Cunningham’s entries was the one he drove for the ENTIRE Le Mans 24-hours all by HIMSELF?

Not enough of everything - development, testing, reliability, etc., etc. Bob Tullius’ Group44 would have made it a winner, no doubt!

Not a winner, dominant or not, therefore, a clear failure.