diff --git a/djangorestframework/mixins.py b/djangorestframework/mixins.py
index b1ba05961..64e541f10 100644
--- a/djangorestframework/mixins.py
+++ b/djangorestframework/mixins.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ classes that can be added to a `View`.
 
 from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser
 from django.db.models.query import QuerySet
-from django.db.models.fields.related import RelatedField
+from django.db.models.fields.related import ForeignKey
 from django.http import HttpResponse
 from django.http.multipartparser import LimitBytes
 
@@ -508,21 +508,35 @@ class CreateModelMixin(object):
     """
     Behavior to create a `model` instance on POST requests
     """
-    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):        
+    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
         model = self.resource.model
 
-        # translated 'related_field' kwargs into 'related_field_id'
-        for related_name in [field.name for field in model._meta.fields if isinstance(field, RelatedField)]:
-            if kwargs.has_key(related_name):
-                kwargs[related_name + '_id'] = kwargs[related_name]
-                del kwargs[related_name]
+        # Copy the dict to keep self.CONTENT intact
+        content = dict(self.CONTENT)
+        m2m_data = {}
+
+        for field in model._meta.fields:
+            if isinstance(field, ForeignKey) and kwargs.has_key(field.name):
+                # translate 'related_field' kwargs into 'related_field_id'
+                kwargs[field.name + '_id'] = kwargs[field.name]
+                del kwargs[field.name]
+
+        for field in model._meta.many_to_many:
+            if content.has_key(field.name):
+                m2m_data[field.name] = content[field.name]
+                del content[field.name]
+
+        all_kw_args = dict(content.items() + kwargs.items())
 
-        all_kw_args = dict(self.CONTENT.items() + kwargs.items())
         if args:
             instance = model(pk=args[-1], **all_kw_args)
         else:
             instance = model(**all_kw_args)
         instance.save()
+
+        for fieldname in m2m_data:
+            getattr(instance, fieldname).add(*m2m_data[fieldname])
+
         headers = {}
         if hasattr(instance, 'get_absolute_url'):
             headers['Location'] = self.resource(self).url(instance)
diff --git a/djangorestframework/tests/mixins.py b/djangorestframework/tests/mixins.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..100109ca6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/djangorestframework/tests/mixins.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+"""Tests for the status module"""
+from django.test import TestCase
+from djangorestframework import status
+from djangorestframework.compat import RequestFactory
+from django.contrib.auth.models import Group, User
+from djangorestframework.mixins import CreateModelMixin
+from djangorestframework.resources import ModelResource
+
+
+class TestModelCreation(TestCase): 
+    """Tests on CreateModelMixin"""
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.req = RequestFactory()
+
+    def test_creation(self):
+        self.assertEquals(0, Group.objects.count())
+
+        class GroupResource(ModelResource):
+            model = Group
+
+        form_data = {'name': 'foo'}
+        request = self.req.post('/groups', data=form_data)
+        mixin = CreateModelMixin()
+        mixin.resource = GroupResource
+        mixin.CONTENT = form_data
+        
+        response = mixin.post(request)
+        self.assertEquals(1, Group.objects.count())
+        self.assertEquals('foo', response.cleaned_content.name)
+        
+
+    def test_creation_with_m2m_relation(self):
+        class UserResource(ModelResource):
+            model = User
+   
+            def url(self, instance):
+                return "/users/%i" % instance.id
+
+        group = Group(name='foo')
+        group.save()
+
+        form_data = {'username': 'bar', 'password': 'baz', 'groups': [group.id]}        
+        request = self.req.post('/groups', data=form_data)
+        cleaned_data = dict(form_data)
+        cleaned_data['groups'] = [group]
+        mixin = CreateModelMixin()
+        mixin.resource = UserResource
+        mixin.CONTENT = cleaned_data
+
+        response = mixin.post(request)
+        self.assertEquals(1, User.objects.count())
+        self.assertEquals(1, response.cleaned_content.groups.count())
+        self.assertEquals('foo', response.cleaned_content.groups.all()[0].name)
+        
+
diff --git a/djangorestframework/tests/modelviews.py b/djangorestframework/tests/modelviews.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..14be178e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/djangorestframework/tests/modelviews.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, url
+from django.test import TestCase
+from django.forms import ModelForm
+from django.contrib.auth.models import Group, User
+from djangorestframework.resources import ModelResource
+from djangorestframework.views import ListOrCreateModelView, InstanceModelView
+
+class GroupResource(ModelResource):
+    model = Group
+
+class UserForm(ModelForm):
+    class Meta:
+        model = User
+        exclude = ('last_login', 'date_joined')
+
+class UserResource(ModelResource):
+    model = User
+    form = UserForm
+
+urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    url(r'^users/$', ListOrCreateModelView.as_view(resource=UserResource), name='users'),
+    url(r'^users/(?P<id>[0-9]+)/$', InstanceModelView.as_view(resource=UserResource)),
+    url(r'^groups/$', ListOrCreateModelView.as_view(resource=GroupResource), name='groups'),
+    url(r'^groups/(?P<id>[0-9]+)/$', InstanceModelView.as_view(resource=GroupResource)),
+)
+
+
+class ModelViewTests(TestCase):
+    """Test the model views djangorestframework provides"""
+    urls = 'djangorestframework.tests.modelviews'  
+
+    def test_creation(self):
+        """Ensure that a model object can be created"""
+        self.assertEqual(0, Group.objects.count())
+
+        response = self.client.post('/groups/', {'name': 'foo'})
+
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 201)
+        self.assertEqual(1, Group.objects.count())
+        self.assertEqual('foo', Group.objects.all()[0].name)
+
+    def test_creation_with_m2m_relation(self):
+        """Ensure that a model object with a m2m relation can be created"""
+        group = Group(name='foo')
+        group.save()
+        self.assertEqual(0, User.objects.count())
+
+        response = self.client.post('/users/', {'username': 'bar', 'password': 'baz', 'groups': [group.id]})
+        
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 201)
+        self.assertEqual(1, User.objects.count())
+       
+        user = User.objects.all()[0]
+        self.assertEqual('bar', user.username)
+        self.assertEqual('baz', user.password)
+        self.assertEqual(1, user.groups.count())
+        
+        group = user.groups.all()[0]
+        self.assertEqual('foo', group.name)