Description
UTAC | Millbrook, Bedford
Viewing: Tues 24th June from 12pm
Auction: Wed 25th June from 9am
Location: Millbrook Proving Ground, Station Lane, Bedford MK45 2JQ
2009 BMW 1M 4. 0 V8 Evocation
Professionally built to OEM+ spec with E92 M3 running gear
Estimate
£30, 000 - £35, 000
Registration No: VO09 WTF
Chassis No: WBAUR32010VL24712
MOT: January 2026
Professionally built by the seller as a 1M homage but with E92 M3 running gear
Conversion fully documented via photographs and invoices
Factory electronics (Drivelogic, EDM etc) preserved via the use of the donor car's main body loom
Offered at a fraction of its build / development cost
The smallest and lightest ‘M’ car in years, the BMW 1 Series M Coupe (better known as the 1M) debuted in 2011. Hailed by many as a spiritual successor to the legendary E30 M3, it became an instant classic. If the newcomer had one drawback, it was the use of force-fed induction with many an enthusiast wishing that their 1M had a freer revving, bigger capacity powerplent. Possessing the requisite professional skills to create just such a machine, the vendor essentially married a BMW 120d M Sport Coupe with the drivetrain from an E92 M3. Featuring genuine 1M body panels with the exception of its fibreglass rear wheelarches, ‘VD09 WTF’ is powered by a S65 4. 0 litre V8 which has been treated to ACL Race bottom end shell bearings, refurbished injectors and replacement throttle actuators. Other M3 components carried across encompass the 7-speed DCT gearbox, front / rear subframes, brakes, differential and propshaft (shortened). Uprated with a KW HAS kit but retaining EDC dampers, the retention of the E92’s main body loom means that the different suspension modes are still available / operational (plus Drivelogic etc). The interior was re-trimmed as per a genuine 1M and the exhaust back box is of the correct type too (the rest of the system encompassing the M3 x-pipe with all four catalytic converters). The donor car had reportedly covered 68, 000 and been well maintained. Interestingly, a factory 1M was rated at 335bhp / 332lbft, whereas an E92 M3 was quoted as developing 414bhp / 295lbft; the former’s turbocharged straight-six being redlined at 5, 900rpm versus 8, 300rpm for the latter’s normally aspirated V8. Riding on Strom M359 replica 19-inch alloys, ‘VD09 WTF’ was, in the seller’s own words, ‘built to an OEM+ specification in so doing it remains a totally usable daily without being too stiff or loud’. On the basis that the 1M was itself something of a ‘skunkworks’ project we cannot help thinking that the M Division would most likely approve of this V8-powered Evocation.
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