History of the BMW Art Car Collection.

The BMW Art Car Collection started with the BMW racing car designed by Alexander Calder in 1975. The first BMW vehicles to form the subjects of visual art were racing cars used in the Le Mans 24 Hour Race. Calder was followed by other American artists. In 1976, Frank Stella designed a BMW 3.0 CSL with a geometric pattern resembling graph paper. In 1977, Roy Lichtenstein created a flowing pattern of lines reflecting the roads and landscape passed by the car. In 1979, Andy Warhol attempted to project a visual sense of speed on a BMW M1.