Vat Inc. €129.95 In 1972 BMW presented the Turbo, a very advanced concept car that anticipated, among other things, the famous M1, presented at the Paris Motor Show in 1978. This impressive coupé was equipped with a 3.5-liter 6-cylinder engine and 277 horsepower, which made the M1 the fastest sports car in German production. The M1 remained in production from 1978 to 1981 and also had a good sports career: many remember the Pro-Car single-brand series, held on the Formula 1 Grand Prix weekends. Homologated in Group 4-5 then in Group B, the M1 also ran in rallies and on track and was also widely used in the American IMSA series, with sometimes highly modified bodywork.
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The Danhausen company of Aachen, Germany, began producing its own series of handcrafted 1:43 models under the names Metal 43, Plumbies, SD Models and Minichamps in 1974. Between 1976 and 1990, AMR produced over 70 different Minichamps models for Danhausen. The mass production of highly detailed die-cast model cars, marketed under the name Minichamps, began in China in 1990 and marked a real revolution in the field of model making, with high quality products at extremely competitive prices. Minichamps models are developed in Germany, but production and assembly takes place in the Far East. In less than ten years Minichamps practically became the reference in the diecast sector. In 2004 the first resin miniatures were introduced. Over the years other scales have been developed significantly, including 1:18. The Maxichamps range, which includes affordable reissues of older Minichamps items, was introduced in 2016.
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