{"id":84386,"date":"2025-12-12T08:22:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=84386"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:22:26","slug":"niki-lauda-bmw-m1-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=84386","title":{"rendered":"You Can Buy The BMW M1 Originally Owned By Niki Lauda"},"content":{"rendered":"

With only 460 units ever made, BMW\u2019s sole supercar doesn\u2019t come up for sale very often. The street-legal M1 is rarer than hen\u2019s teeth, as only 397 road-registered cars were manually assembled by specialist contractor Baur in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One of those E26s had a particularly famous owner, Niki Lauda, and it\u2019s about to hit the market.<\/p>\n

At its Kissimmee 2026 sale on January 17, Mecum will auction an M1<\/a> originally owned by the legendary Austrian racer. Lauda didn\u2019t actually buy it. He earned it as a prize at the end of the inaugural BMW M1 Procar Championship season. Despite retiring from three of the eight races, he still finished the season with the most points, edging out another icon, Hans-Joachim Stuck.<\/p>\n

The trophy car has covered only 20,350 kilometers (12,644 miles) and remains in excellent condition. Finished in white with hand-painted M stripes, it also carries the signature of Art Car<\/a> collaborator and artist Walter Maurer. The car was imported to the United States in 1987 and later appeared at the 2017 Hillsborough Concours d\u2019Elegance in California.<\/p>\n