Calling a method from abstarct class

Hi Experts,
Am working on ABAP Objects.
I have created an Abstract class - with method m1.
I have implemented m1.
As we can not instantiate an abstract class, i tried to call the method m1 directly with class name.
But it it giving error.
Please find the code below.
CLASS c1 DEFINITION ABSTRACT.
PUBLIC SECTION.
    DATA: v1 TYPE i.
    METHODS: m1.
ENDCLASS.                    "c1 DEFINITION
CLASS c1 IMPLEMENTATION.
METHOD m1.
    WRITE: 'You called method m1 in class c1'.
ENDMETHOD. "m1
ENDCLASS.                    "c1 IMPLEMENTATION
CALL METHOD c1=>m1.
Please tell me what is wrong and how to solve this problem.
Thanks in Advance.

Micky is right, abstract means not to be instantiated. It is just a "template" which you can use for all subsequent classes. I.e you have general abstract class vehicle . For all vehicles you will have the same attributes like speed , engine type , strearing , gears etc and methods like start , move etc.
In all subsequent classes (which inherit from vehicle) you will have more specific attributes for each. But all of these classes have some common things (like the ones mentioned above), so they use abstract class to define these things for all of them.
Moreover there is no sense in creating instance (real object) of class vehicle . What kind of physical object would vehicle be? there is no such object in real world, right? For this we need to be more precise, so we create classes which use this "plan" for real vehicles. So the abstract class here is only to have this common properties and behaviour defined in one place for all objects which will have these. Abstract object however cannot be created per se. You can only create objects which are lower in hierarchy (which are specific like car , ship, bike etc).
Hope this claryfies what we need abstract classes for.
Regards
Marcin

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