2022: This year it’s not just BMW M celebrating its 50th anniversary. In 1972, the year that the company that had been hitherto known as BMW Motorsport was founded, a very special concept car saw the light of day: the BMW Turbo. A name that was as concise and precise as the design of this unique vehicle. It came from the pen of BMW’s head designer Paul Bracq, who formulated this approach to the study thus: “Human beings are the non plus ultra. Today, we’re building from the inside out. It has to be an intimate cell in which we drive. A car must fit us like a second skin.” And the focus under the skin of the prototype, which gave a foretaste of the BMW M1, was on one thing: the future. Let’s have a closer look at why the BMW Turbo is so special and why it still fascinates today.
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