# 1987 BMW 3 Series - Is this an M1? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** bmw\ **Created:** [March 31, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1987-bmw-3-series-is-this-an-m1/183340 "2022-03-31T21:29:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![E3018](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@E3018](https://community.cartalk.com/u/E3018)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1987-bmw-3-series-is-this-an-m1/183340/1 "2022-03-31T21:29:20Z")
Is this car m tech one? ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 11:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1987-bmw-3-series-is-this-an-m1/183340/2 "2022-04-01T11:19:53Z")
Highly unlikely. Body kits were available to make 87 BMWs look like an M tech 1. Very few, if any, imported to the USA. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1987-bmw-3-series-is-this-an-m1/183340/3 "2022-04-01T23:06:23Z")
I can’t see the car from here. Could you hold it up a little higher? ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1987-bmw-3-series-is-this-an-m1/183340/4 "2022-04-01T23:49:02Z")
The 1987 M1 is not a 3 series, so no, what every you are looking at is either not an M1 or not a 3 series. M1s are rare enough that I bet it isn’t an M1. Here’s what an M1 looks like. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/a/b/ab9fdcbab85b3bfea90ed8aa7ca2ff76a9d8bd75.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1987-bmw-3-series-is-this-an-m1/183340/5 "2022-04-01T23:51:09Z")
An M tech One is an option package on the 3 series cars, not the M1 car … drool, pant, sorry, I love that car! Thanks for the picture ---
**Author:** ![Cavell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cavell/32/43396_2.png) [@Cavell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cavell)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1987-bmw-3-series-is-this-an-m1/183340/6 "2022-04-02T13:06:55Z")
![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/1/1/1176b00086bd586e3b75e2c83d17a7ced8db1b40.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1987-bmw-3-series-is-this-an-m1/183340/7 "2022-04-02T13:14:32Z")
All I can tell you is that my M1 looks like this: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/4/e/4e8bb395537f826cb1e2e8766c3c6d4dfeb4e663.jpeg) Does yours resemble mine? ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1987-bmw-3-series-is-this-an-m1/183340/8 "2022-04-02T14:12:28Z")
Mine’s bigger than yours is. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/7/0/70cbc68a5e26fbe3a85a9922187d2a0e3eb3d6b5.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1987-bmw-3-series-is-this-an-m1/183340/9 "2022-04-02T17:40:52Z")
But mine’s faster. 😉 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/0/1/01b24257d4d2bddec97aece8f006cce170cbf9ac.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![tcmichnorth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tcmichnorth/32/25126_2.png) [@tcmichnorth](https://community.cartalk.com/u/tcmichnorth)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1987-bmw-3-series-is-this-an-m1/183340/10 "2022-04-02T18:59:58Z")
![Capture+_2022-04-02-14-56-26](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/5/2/52b4e9f09bdfda8696cbae68498c1071a9f05bb5.jpeg) No, mines faster ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 9:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1987-bmw-3-series-is-this-an-m1/183340/11 "2022-04-02T21:43:44Z")
Yours can’t drive triple monitors without a lot of hoop-jumping and is therefore dead to me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![p.g.i.holmes\_156524](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@p.g.i.holmes\_156524](https://community.cartalk.com/u/p.g.i.holmes_156524)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 12:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1987-bmw-3-series-is-this-an-m1/183340/12 "2022-04-06T12:05:18Z")
![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/0/0/00d7426dc44dce9ebba3ffb8d08a2400f675f768.png) Mine’s longer than yours. (193.5 miles)