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Originally Posted by Artemis
@Robcut1
You're an ///M enthusiast and walk an extra mile to express it by modding your 1M and conceiving decals to your taste. That deserves respect, regardless whether or not we subscribe to your points of view and output.
Instead of linking the 1M to a specific car from the past, why not considering it, on the one hand, a league of its own and, on the other hand, approach it under an ///M angle, thus broader.
Decades of know how and expertise of the ///M Division culminated into and/or trickled down into, the 1M. It ain't no new E30 or a downsized M3 - it stands on its own. Car parts and concepts which had already proved their excellence, were considered the right choice by the ///M Division for their - under high time-constraints - developed "Baby M". A one-off project where ///M designers and engineers got quite some freedom to create something more challenging (even more radical than the days of tweeking the E46 M3 into an E46 M3 CSL).
Before its launch, the buzzing question was not really whether the hyped 1M would be a successor of a previously existing ///M car (although the marketing department folks pulled that trick), but rather whether it would live up to the expectation of the ///M badge (does it have the right genes and talents to be part of the ///M family and heritage, or was it all just marketing yadda-yadda ?) and whether it would reveal a possible new direction of the ///M Department for the development of future ///M cars (is there a profitable market for a pocket rocket ///M car ?). Needless to tell those questions have been shelved since last Summer. The proof of the pudding is in the eating + res ipse loquitur: the thing speaks for itself. Only very few dissenting opinions (an underwhelmed Mr. Randy Pobst, not to name one infamous one).
Otherwise said: rather than reviving the past with some nostalgia, why not looking ahead: the 1M as benchmark, as a point of reference, for future ///M cars (especially 1M, M2 or even M3). To me 2011 was not the 25th anniversary of a previous ///M car, but rather the first year of an instant future classic.
Just my 2 cents.
In the meantime, enjoy the privilige of driving your 1M. Only few can. 
Other examples of expressing "all things ///M" enthusiasm:
(source: http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=653067)
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Very well stated and I agree 100%. The 1M is the beginning of a new ///M era - all ///M cars are now going with forced induction and more contemporary setups being developed by the ///M division.
I think BMW has set the mark very high with this car, so just look forward to what's to come down the road given the expectations that have been set.
