New Alpina B3 Bi-Turbo

New Alpina B3 Bi-Turbo

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squeezebm

Original Poster:

2,319 posts

211 months

Tuesday 3rd July 2007
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I don't know much about Alpina,but just been browsing and started to find out details about the new Coupe version 3.0 Twin Turbos 360hp and sub 5 secs 0-60 biggrin Anyone know anything else......

Like HOW MUCH ?

Cheers

CatherineJ

9,586 posts

249 months

Tuesday 3rd July 2007
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Do you have to have the awful wheels and splitter fitted?

Edited by CatherineJ on Wednesday 4th July 18:30

Dunk76

4,350 posts

220 months

Tuesday 3rd July 2007
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starting at £44K or so - although speccing one properly will knock it up to the late 40s (although this applies to any BMW)

I know for a fact that it'll hit 180mph

And in true Alpina fashion it'll make a whole lot more than 360bhp

Dunk76

4,350 posts

220 months

Tuesday 3rd July 2007
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CatherineJ said:
Do you have to have awful wheels and splitter fitted?
Taste is discretionary, but the usual Alpina package of stunning wheels and subtle yet aggressive splitter and bootlid addenda as compulsory.

Mustard

6,992 posts

251 months

Tuesday 3rd July 2007
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CatherineJ said:
Do you have to have awful wheels and splitter fitted?
Wash your mouth out! biggrin

squeezebm

Original Poster:

2,319 posts

211 months

Tuesday 3rd July 2007
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E-mailed shitners Nottm,cos there only 25 mins away to find out when there demo is being delivered...........i really like the sound of this coupe,don't suppose Alpina do discounts thowink Could be the answer to my motoring nirvana.
So whats the downsides to the alpina ownership thing?

Mustard

6,992 posts

251 months

Tuesday 3rd July 2007
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Normally heavy depreciation when bought new, but with this model i'm not soo sure because its going to be a fair bit cheaper than the M3

Alpina seem to be moving towards more sensible prices and extra volume compared to the 'old days'

Edited by Mustard on Tuesday 3rd July 22:23

Dunk76

4,350 posts

220 months

Tuesday 3rd July 2007
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Downsides:

Everyone will think it's a replica/fake (although this can be an advantage)

Insurance is normally very expensive (as they normally viewed as imports, and the £4000 wheels are desirable to tea-leaves)

Ummmm

Oh yeah, you'll never bother with another manufacturer, or indeed manual gearbox, again.

They're a slippery slope - three weeks into B3 ownership, you'll be trying to figure out how to afford a B5

I've come to the conclusion recently - having driven RS4s, CSLs, M5s, CLS55, and umpteen other things - that the only thing better than an Alpina is... another Alpina!!

squeezebm

Original Poster:

2,319 posts

211 months

Tuesday 3rd July 2007
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Oh feck me!! Alpina boys gonna get me.

Never driven one,always admired them,long gone are the days when i worry what people think of my car, M3 just too extreme for me nowadays (must just be getting old) plus them there performance figures do it for me!

oh and i want something DIFFERENT!

Dunk76

4,350 posts

220 months

Tuesday 3rd July 2007
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Alpina is the path to BMW-based enlightenment and an altogether higher state of conciousness.

Which is a way of saying in the world of 3 series willy waving, you can be a touch arrogant with the Proles in their cooking BMWs biggrin

On serious note, as another Alpina owning chum of mine wrote yesterday - 'they (Alpina) rarely drop a bo**ock' - it'll be a serious bit of kit in other words

Edited by Dunk76 on Tuesday 3rd July 22:35

Mustard

6,992 posts

251 months

Tuesday 3rd July 2007
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DER has just succumbed according to rumour

Dunk76

4,350 posts

220 months

Tuesday 3rd July 2007
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His profile says a B5

I did demand a full review from him, but none has been forthcoming so far...

not that anyone would be able to actually understand it if one did appear

Gimlet

328 posts

288 months

Wednesday 4th July 2007
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Alpina's are great cars.
I have visted Buchloe and had a guided tour of their factory (And their Wine Cellar), including an introduction to the technician that built my engine.
They are very proud of their motoring history (though they actually came into existence building type-writers) and do an awful lot of development for both BMW and other car makers. (Including the first steering-wheel based gear change on a production car for Porsche who subsequently bought the rights to develop it.)

They were also the first manufacturer to win a 24 hour race with a diesel engined car.

There are rumblings that a D5 might be in development ... I'll be one of the first in the queue.

Donut

4,521 posts

257 months

Wednesday 4th July 2007
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squeezebm said:
E-mailed shitners Nottm,cos there only 25 mins away to find out when there demo is being delivered...........i really like the sound of this coupe,don't suppose Alpina do discounts thowink Could be the answer to my motoring nirvana.
So whats the downsides to the alpina ownership thing?
The downsides used to be heavy depreciation but i think there getting better.

The main problem is that they can only be sold new via sytner so you can't get dealers into a dutch auction by phoning round to try and get a bigger discount.

If you sell to any other BMW dealer they will value it as the closest BMW i.e B3 3.3's would get the same as a 330i sport/330ci sport.

The advantage is the uniqueness and they are different to //M product, I had a B3 3.4 Convertible for a month when I served my punishment at Sytners and enjoyed it but if it where my money i'd go for an M3 as I prefer the M3 as an overall package. I haven't had a try in the B5 but friends who have do say it is amazing along with the Z4 and D3, so I get the impression Alpina have moved along way since there E36/46 versions of the past that I have tried.

Nottingham is the Alpina head office so its the best place to go to attempt that dirty word 'discount'.

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Monster26

284 posts

231 months

Wednesday 4th July 2007
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CatherineJ said:
Do you have to have the awful wheels and splitter fitted?

Edited by CatherineJ on Wednesday 4th July 18:30
Oh dear......no comment

TheKeyboardDemon

713 posts

213 months

Wednesday 4th July 2007
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I can't wait to see 1, any pics or links available? biggrin

derestrictor

18,764 posts

267 months

Wednesday 4th July 2007
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Dunk76 said:
His profile says a B5

I did demand a full review from him, but none has been forthcoming so far...

not that anyone would be able to actually understand it if one did appear
Check yer email, Herr Dunk,
For I have sent thee piccies from Bunk!

Took some photos up on the moors but 516ft/lb being loosed upon craggy, greasy blacktop, streaming from the precipitation is not a plan of sufficient cun for Mr Horatio Fox.

Nevertheless, I am starting to believe it is the most superb vehicle for luxuriant, real world sledgehammerwerk.

Quite joyous.

derestrictor

18,764 posts

267 months

Friday 6th July 2007
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Dunk76 said:
His profile says a B5

I did demand a full review from him, but none has been forthcoming so far...

not that anyone would be able to actually understand it if one did appear
Wotcha.




As they say.

clubsport

7,296 posts

264 months

Friday 6th July 2007
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Cracking!....looks really mean in the subtle colour, compared to some of these leary blues and greens that are around.
Looking forward to hearing how it fares at Vmax. With 700NM, it should suprise a few in their exotica..have fun mate! smile

TheKeyboardDemon

713 posts

213 months

Friday 6th July 2007
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That's real nice. wink