For fans of German performance cars,->ke506 not much can top the sights and sounds of 43 BMW M->ke546 cars all on a parade around the Nurburgring.->ke999f Most of the cars in this video->ke278 are, as you'd expect, M3s,->ke2366 but there are 1M's,->ke2536 M4s,->ke4183 M5s,->ke2922 M6s,->ke208 X5->ke326 Ms and X6->ke2396 Ms. Even the Safety cars are an M4 and an M6. Sadly, there is no M1,->ke4680 but that was going to be a long shot anyway. The footage comes from a parade held as a preliminary event before the 24 Hours Nurburgring race. With BMW->ke178 fans' joy being only somewhat diminished when a BMW took second behind an Audi->ke14 in the actual race.

AMG->ke8 didn't come under Mercedes->ke187 control until 1990, and has only been a wholly owned division of the company for a decade. Audi made its first RS-badged car in 1994, but BMW was well ahead of both of its major competitors in the performance department when it rolled out the first M-badged car in 1978. M heritage therefore stretches a bit further back, and it makes the cars a logical choice for such a storied race track.