The 2014 Alpina D3 Touring with *almost* moon mileage

[Waitey]

The back story....

In 2016 I did 33k in 12 months in my brand new Audi RS3, rendering it worthless, to soften the blow I bought a 2009 E91 Alpina D3 Bi Tubro Touring to take on most of the miles I was doing.

It was on 68k and I fell totally in love with it and used it for everything.







After 12 months and another 30k miles, I let it go after buying a brand new Range Rover Sport.

Lovely thing and I still have it now but I still do 30k a year, so now after 2 years I'm on 60k miles with it and its worth nothing.... had lots of fun though!





So in a bid to keep mileage off the Rangie, I bought an old dream car, a 159 TI Sport wagon, while very pretty and cheap, I just don't get on with it. Even after doing 3k in 6 weeks with it.... I've not gotten aorund to selling it though...





So that brings me onto the Alpina of the title! After watching many USA based youtube videos about high mileage cars... I set about looking for one, well a 330d, after really enjoying a 335d X drive I had in 2014 and found this...

Alpina UK's own D3 Touring.

It's literally everything you can need from a car.

Quick spec:

350bhp - 530lb/ft
RWD
Factory fit Alpina LSD
8 Speed auto
Alpina suspension
Grey leather
Glacier Silver
Pro Nav
Pan roof
Adaptive headlights
Electric folding tow bar

Oh and its done 220k miles. It's first owner was Alpina UK's director Mr Mallet, who isn't, it seems, a fan of flying, so he did 210k in it in 5 years! Last owner did a further 10k in it over the last year. It still has 6 weeks worth of BMW extended warranty on it!

Averaged 45mpg on the way home at outside of the m-way speeds.

As for condition, I'll let the photo's speak for it. They were done with the car on 210k miles.....since then the last owner took the mud flaps off and had the windows tinted.

Sitting at 221k now, it's only 17k miles away from covering the distance from the Earth to the moon! Here's looking forward to covering 30k per annum in it for many more years!

Edited by Waitey on Tuesday 17th March 09:19

[mattman]

Great to see a car used that much, but still well cared for. You’d never guess looking at it.

I’d be tempted to put the mudflap back on if you intend to keep your mileage up, they have obviously done a good job of protecting the car for the last 210k

[toastyhamster]

Lovely cars. Been getting frustrated with my XE, food for thought.

[Caddyshack]

Wow, looks like new still.

Very nice

[Mikebentley]

Whatdidthatmileage do to the price? Did it knock say 25% off the average or did the fact it probably wanted for nothing keep its price firm.

[Waitey]

Mikebentley said:

Whatdidthatmileage do to the price? Did it knock say 25% off the average or did the fact it probably wanted for nothing keep its price firm.

Circa 50% of the value of one with more standard mileage.

[AAD44H]

I'd still be interested in a sport with that mileage at 2 years old! Definitely not worthless!

[RumbleOfThunder]

Lovely mile muncher. Also Scarb has never looked so nice.

[CB 987]

Congrats, I wondered if this might crop up on here. I’m a fellow F31 Alpina owner, but with less miles! They are fantastic all round cars, keep us posted.

Cheers

[sophistoman]

That is a beautiful car, a gentleman’s cruiser. I have my eye on an Alpina as well but in B3 or B5 flavour. One day.....

[LukeyP_]

Remember this been for sale a while back, awesome car.

[MercedesClassic]

Love Alpinas and saw that for sale last year and again recently. They have a distinctive classier look and also hand finished engineering too.
How's it drive compared to your previous Alpina? My previous car was 320d saloon was a good drive if a bit harsh suspension wise and noisy engine. Am I right in thinking Alpina use non runflat tyres? Engine should obviously be smoother than my 320d was.

Many happy miles!

[greygoose]

Lovely car, looks immaculate.

[nickod]

Looks nice in that colour scheme. Like the seats. I own #13 ( Alpina green / black cloth) and they are great cars.

[gizlaroc]

nickod said:

Looks nice in that colour scheme. Like the seats. I own #13 ( Alpina green / black cloth) and they are great cars.

You bought that one?

That looked great as well.



Nice to see people not afraid of not having leather (we all know cloth is nicer to sit on) or afraid of mileage.

[PGN]

This has been mentioned on two separate occasions in the "High mileage cars for sale" thread. This is the second one (17 Feb) https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Looks amazing for the mileage; it's obviously been well looked after.

[nickod]

gizlaroc said:

nickod said:

Looks nice in that colour scheme. Like the seats. I own #13 ( Alpina green / black cloth) and they are great cars.

You bought that one?

That looked great as well.



Nice to see people not afraid of not having leather (we all know cloth is nicer to sit on) or afraid of mileage.

I think the cloth is nicer than Dakota leather and is I'm told harder wearing than merino leather although I would have loved Lavalina. The original owner of mine ( who I bought it from) specced cloth seats at ( I think) extra cost with clear Windows, no stripes and debadged.

[JakeT]

I’m so glad this ended up with a PH’er. Looks absolutely great and if I wasn’t poor I would have bought it. I’m sure it’ll do you great service while you own it.

[gizlaroc]

I must admit, I went to call about this and the ad had gone.

That would be a great car to do 20-30k a year in for the next 4-5 years. It will owe you nothing, still be worth £5k at least, so works out cheaper than buying a 2014 320d with 100k on it.

Great buy.

[bolidemichael]

This was being discussed in hushed tones on the high mileage thread, enjoy.