So what car have you been obsessing about today?? (Vol 2)

[sealtt]

Mercedes CL63 AMGs for sub-£40k.

[elvismiggell]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

this today, & since saturday actually which is pretty dangerous.


i know from certain angles they look a little awkward, & they aren't that fast but as a daily driver & for the honeymoon drive down to italy next year i'm thinking it's a bit more special than a boxster/cayman.

lovely inside too

Seen a few on my commutes. Very nice bits of kit.

[Liquid Knight]

I've been offered a manual (yes manual) Mercedes C180 for scrap money and am wondering if it would make a decent Se7en donor.

Silver or aluminium Se7en with a black nose cone and a Mercedes truck badge on the grille. Hmmmmmm....

[JayTee94]

melvster said:

That is not a proper Alpina IMO, too similar to the car it is based on and it does not look anything special for the money. M-Sport mean sod all now, just a load of marketing ste to lure customers into thiniking their 320d M-Sport is a scaled down version of the chicken vindaloo M3.

Alpina was all about making something totally different to the original BMW car, ok the new cars have the wheels and stripes which are optional but where are the crazy interiors which used to be a standard item on Alpina's of old.

Get yourself down to Sytner BMW in Nottingham, next to Graypaul, they are the main UK dealer for Alpina.

See now, that is why I like it - it is a subtle difference and those details set it apart. The M-Sport as you say means nothing now as I saw a white 316i M-Sport this morning on my commute.

I thought Alpina was just a tuning arm for BMW, but I may be wrong, and in their defence you can still get crazy coloured interiors, but I would rather not. I know about Synter Nottingham and that makes it more alluring as a dealer network it is not a vast distance away! Do you know if Synter in Derby would touch them, you know - the one down the road from Aston Martin?

Stop it, I still am thinking about them now!

[Leins]

JayTee94 said:

See now, that is why I like it - it is a subtle difference and those details set it apart. The M-Sport as you say means nothing now as I saw a white 316i M-Sport this morning on my commute.

I thought Alpina was just a tuning arm for BMW, but I may be wrong, and in their defence you can still get crazy coloured interiors, but I would rather not. I know about Synter Nottingham and that makes it more alluring as a dealer network it is not a vast distance away! Do you know if Synter in Derby would touch them, you know - the one down the road from Aston Martin?

Stop it, I still am thinking about them now!

Ahem, Alpina is a manufacturer in its own right, not a tuning arm Personally I prefer the older ones, although this is high on the list too:

Edited by Leins on Monday 1st October 19:04

[melvster]

I do not know all the Alpina dealers in the UK, Sytner in Nottingham was started by Frank Sytner, he used to race an E30 M3 in the BTCC and was the first franchise to receive the right to sell Alpina's in the UK. Now i think there are about half a dozen Alpina dealers in the UK, i know of Sytner in Notts and Bowker in Preston.

Alpina are a seperate manufacturer, they specialist in BMW, similar to AMG who contracted to Mercedes. Alpina basically take a BMW engine, throw everything away except the block, usually bore it out and then rebuild it.

ETA; these are my idea of an Alpina. Wonderful creations.

Edited by melvster on Monday 1st October 19:09

[melvster]

Leins said:

Ahem, Alpina is a manufacturer in its own right, not a tuning arm Personally I prefer the older ones, although this is high on the list too:

Edited by Leins on Monday 1st October 19:04

That interior is what i have in mind when i think of an Alpina. Wonderful.

[Waugh-terfall]

melvster said:

I do not know all the Alpina dealers in the UK, Sytner in Nottingham was started by Frank Sytner, he used to race an E30 M3 in the BTCC and was the first franchise to receive the right to sell Alpina's in the UK. Now i think there are about half a dozen Alpina dealers in the UK, i know of Sytner in Notts and Bowker in Preston.

I'm sure Sytner High Wycombe have an Alpina arm too, and Canary Wharf for that matter.

ETA: Yeah, Alpina UK HQ is Sytner Nottingham and Sytner also have:

Canary Wharf (London)
Essex-Harold Wood
Essex-Chigwell
Sunningdale (my local)
Maidenhead
High Wycombe
Maidenhead
Cardiff
Newport
Solihull
Birmingham
Oldbury
Sutton Coldfield
Coventry
Leicestershire
Sheffield

John Clark Motor Group oversee Scotlands outlets in Aberdeen and Dundee.

Edited by Waugh-terfall on Monday 1st October 19:17

[Leins]

melvster said:

I do not know all the Alpina dealers in the UK, Sytner in Nottingham was started by Frank Sytner, he used to race an E30 M3 in the BTCC and was the first franchise to receive the right to sell Alpina's in the UK. Now i think there are about half a dozen Alpina dealers in the UK, i know of Sytner in Notts and Bowker in Preston.

Alpina are a seperate manufacturer, they specialist in BMW, similar to AMG who contracted to Mercedes. Alpina basically take a BMW engine, throw everything away except the block, usually bore it out and then rebuild it.

ETA; these are my idea of an Alpina. Wonderful creations.

Edited by melvster on Monday 1st October 19:09

And Sytner's in Nottingham were the only ones in Europe outside of Buchloe to be granted a licence to build Alpinas too. They converted mine in early 1991 from a factory 325i Touring, and then it was sold through John Clark BMW in Aberdeen

[JayTee94]

Oops, my apologies to Alpina for my ignorance.

[theironduke]

X300 Jag in Sport guise with black paint and cream cow.

[SMGB]

http://www.triple-mregister.org/SaleNew/slideshow2...
I would so like to own a pre war OHC square rigger MG before I die. Maybe rebuilding one like this. Its been bugging me today as I found out on Sunday someone we know had sold an abandoned project for a lot less than the asking on this one.
a quick twirl of the spanners and here you are

This is a PB at Kop Hill this year, Js and Ps equally desirable for me.

Edited by SMGB on Monday 1st October 21:49

[SomeMinorTrouble]

caraddict said:

I always loved the warm versions of the 106... Sounds like a cracking car. I recently bought a black '92 CRX 1.6 16V on impulse, and my God that a fun car to toss around! Somehow I always knew there were many great drivers cars for cheap out there, but I have really opened my eyes for these warm hatches as you are able to smash the throttle in a daily commute without risking to lose your license or put others in danger!

This is my car, still exploring its limits (I know the wheels are horrible, looking to get black 16" lightweight Enkei's next season):

Ah i do love the crx's, the shape seems so right, great engine too.
Insurance says no though

[Pesty]

S2Mike said:

.
Trawling the classifieds like you do, and this jumped up and said "BUY ME" not enough cash at the moment but 1976 3000m Turbo
apparently 1 of only 13 left!!!
What can I sell to manage a purchase and the necessary to finish the refit?

brilliant i'm now looking at classic tvrs'

[LukeSi]

melvster said:

I do not know all the Alpina dealers in the UK, Sytner in Nottingham was started by Frank Sytner, he used to race an E30 M3 in the BTCC and was the first franchise to receive the right to sell Alpina's in the UK. Now i think there are about half a dozen Alpina dealers in the UK, i know of Sytner in Notts and Bowker in Preston.

Alpina are a seperate manufacturer, they specialist in BMW, similar to AMG who contracted to Mercedes. Alpina basically take a BMW engine, throw everything away except the block, usually bore it out and then rebuild it.

ETA; these are my idea of an Alpina. Wonderful creations.

Edited by melvster on Monday 1st October 19:09

I think Knights North staffs are an Alpina dealer.

[George H]

SLK 55 AMG


http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

Bargain really... Very tempting as a new daily driver

[Waugh-terfall]

George H said:

SLK 55 AMG


http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

Bargain really... Very tempting as a new daily driver

If you use the paddles in the Polo, you'll hate the manual buttons/splapstick in this.

[CampDavid]

melvster said:

I do not know all the Alpina dealers in the UK, Sytner in Nottingham was started by Frank Sytner, he used to race an E30 M3 in the BTCC and was the first franchise to receive the right to sell Alpina's in the UK. Now i think there are about half a dozen Alpina dealers in the UK, i know of Sytner in Notts and Bowker in Preston.

Alpina are a seperate manufacturer, they specialist in BMW, similar to AMG who contracted to Mercedes. Alpina basically take a BMW engine, throw everything away except the block, usually bore it out and then rebuild it.

ETA; these are my idea of an Alpina. Wonderful creations.

Edited by melvster on Monday 1st October 19:09

That's the best marketing photo ever.

[Leins]

CampDavid said:

That's the best marketing photo ever.

German "Howard's Way" . Although not sure how he's going to get all that stuff into the boot of the E30

[carlove]

Brand new
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...

Or 1 year old.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...