2012(12) BMW 1M COUPE 3.0 ,6 SPEED MANUAL 41,399miles ALPINE WHITE WITH FULL BLACK LEATHER £48995 From new, you could specify a 1M in three colours: Alpine White, Sapphire Black and arguably the best colour - Valencia Orange. The latter obviously succeeded in being the more extrovert choice, giving a huge hint that you are in fact looking at something special from BMW M. This also happened to be the colour BMW chose to market the car in too - well, it is an M car after all. Whereas Alpine White and Sapphire Black were a lot more subtle, and are somewhat understated. However, there is nothing subtle about the 1M's quad exhaust tips teamed with the gorgeous 19-inch M light alloy wheels. Interestingly, the 1M was amongst some of the first cars to bring turbo-charging to BMW M cars which again raised eyebrows with purists, as naturally aspirated engines were always the key point of a BMW M car. In a world where emissions regulations were getting stricter, turbocharging was going to be adopted sooner or later, and it has not been a bad thing with the 1M as it gave the car a playful and punchy character. This resulted in the 1M being characteristically M car quick too, with 0 to 62mph achieved in just 4.9 seconds. Although it is thought BMW were a bit conservative with this figure and its actually around half a second quicker in reality.