Far from an expert on the M1 (or DeLorean), I've always thought the M1 was an in house effort. Here's what I've dug up: http://www.korman.com/m1.htm Back to lurk mode. Scott Donnelly Macstacker@xxxx wrote: > The M1 was a joint venture with BMW and ferrarri. The engine was from > ferrarri. Dont know if it was a V-8 or a V-12. But this car was from late > 70's early 80's. Italdesign did the styling on it. The car was sold in > small quantities in the U.S. (less than 500 if i recal the facts) and was > discontinued when ferrarri wanted out of the deal. Hot looking car though > with lots of lines similar to other ItalDesign cars of the period (DMC12, > Esprit, Maserati, Izuzu impulse). I would take it to be a very hot > collectors item, meant to be seen and not driven :^( unlike D's. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Before posting messages or replies, see the posting policy rules at: > www.dmcnews.com/Admin/rules.html > > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: > moderator@xxxx > > -- 20 megs of disk space in your eGroup's Document Vault > -- http://www.egroups.com/docvault/dmcnews/?m=1