BMW Art Cars

This Group A racer was customised by Australian artist Ken Done

Matazo Kayama used traditional Japanese techniques to paint this E34 535i

The first Art Car – this 3.0 CSL – was created by Alexander Calder

Frank Stella's creation, a 1976 3.0 CSL, competed at Le Mans

A.R. Penck drew on influences as varied as cave painting, physics and mathematics to create this Z1

Andy Warhol's M1: "I tried to portray a sense of speed. When a car is going really fast all the lines and colours are a blur."

This Esther Mahlangu-designed E34 525i was the 12th Art Car, and the first to be created by a woman

David Hockney designed this 850 CSi to make the car's contents visible from the outside

Jenny Holzer's BMW V12 LMR used lightweight foil rather than chrome to avoid adding weight

This BMW 3-series Racing Prototype was created by Sandro Chia. "A car is a coveted object in our society," he said

César Manrique created the only 7-series Art Car in 1990

Ernst Fuchs's 635 CSi was the first Art Car to be based on a series production BMW

Roy Lichtenstein's 1977 BMW 320i Group 5 racer is one of the most popular Art Cars

Robert Rauschenberg's 635 CSi was the first Art Car to carry photographic materials

Ernst Fuchs said: "Actually the car needs no embellishment. It has its own aesthetic appeal."

Michael Jagamara Nelson drew on aboriginal art, taught to him by his grandfather, to create his E30 M3 Group A racer

In total, 17 Art Cars have been built. Fifteen of them are shown here

Although not an Art Car, Robin Rhode used a Z4 to create a 100x200ft canvas

Jeff Koons unveiled his M3 GT2 at the Pompidou Centre in 2010. Like the Warhol-designed M1, it competed at Le Mans