Actually, the earlier prototype for this car (the M1) DID have gullwing doors and VERY DeLorean-esque windows. It was simply called the BMW Turbo and was introduced in 1973. For more info (not much more) see "The Best Of Motor Trend", their 50th Anniversary Special. This magazine also has two pictures of and some words about the DeLorean. The M1 was a very limited production car with only 457 examples produced. It did NOT have a V8 or V12 and Ferrari had nothing to do with the design. The engine was essentially the 3.4 from the 635CSi. For more info on the M1, see "The Ultimate Classic Car Book" by our friend Quentin Willson. This book also has a couple unfriendly pages (but nice pictures) about the DeLorean. Now, if you want to see another prototype that looks ALOT like the DeLorean, look up the Ford Mustang RSX designed by GHIA in the late 70s/early 80s. This can be found on page 240 of "The Complete Book of Mustang". The doors may not be gullwings (can't tell from the picture) but the windows look identical to the DeLorean. --Rob Hook -----Original Message----- From: Jesse D. Sightler [SMTP:jsight@xxxx] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 1:55 PM To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [DML] Re: Another Giugiaro Design Influence? dcsj@xxxx wrote: > > While looking through the back of an AutoWeek mag., a couple months back, I > ran across a for sale ad with picture. The car was a 1980 BMW M1 It appeared > to be a 2seat sports coupe the design was strikingly similar too a > Delorean/Lotus Espri Hybrid concept. You are definately correct here. :) No gull-wing doors, but other than that, the car looks very much like a Delorean. It was also designed by Giugiaro and Ital Design, and I believe there were about 8000 produced, although I could be mixing the production number up with the Z1. > It was listed @ $85,000 . Is this a rare prototype or an actual production > model? I have to say its the sharpest looking BMW I've ever seen. The front > end looks delorean and back end looks espri. I've seen two of them in person at the Euro99 show earlier this year, and yes they are very impressive looking vehicles. I've never seen one for less than 70-80000, though. :) --------------- Jesse D. Sightler http://www.biddin.com/delorean/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 -- Create a poll/survey for your eGroup! -- http://www.egroups.com/vote?listname=dmcnews&m=1