One of the biggest crowd pullers at this year's Melbourne Motor Show is this outrageous design study from BMW, a design study called "M1" - it's basically a retro homage to the real BMW M1 sports car of thirty years ago. This "design study" was not in fact designed by BMW's design team, rather, it was designed by legendary Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro - so I guess the term "design study" has been used loosely. BMW's design team are probably just studying the work of a master like Giugiaro.

This M1 will never become a reality, like the last one, so BMW are instead happy to parade this car around to motor shows, showing off the apparent "talent" at the German firm. In this case, Mr. Giugiaro was the talent, but I really shouldn't care - it looks fantastic. Enjoy.

MELBOURNE 2009: BMW Tips its Hat to the M1