With out the polarizing kidney grille, the ALPINA B3 Touring is considered a extra elegant various to BMW’s personal M3 Touring. This dreamy wagon displayed at a vendor in Munich has probably the most fascinating specs we’ve got ever seen. Made well-known by the i7 M70, the Liquid Copper paint is an Particular person shade (codenamed P8T) mixed with delicate ALPINA decals harkening again to the Eighties.

The darkish anthracite multi-spoke, 20-inch wheels with their timeless design and Shadowline black accents properly complement the particular foremost shade. We’re stunned by the inside because it is available in Ivory White. Being an ALPINA, it’s an individually numbered (#852) automotive as denoted by the particular plaque on the middle console.

Though this isn’t an M3 Touring, you continue to get the twin-turbo “S58” engine present in Bavaria’s tremendous wagon. The three.0-liter inline-six is barely down on horsepower (488 hp vs 503 hp) in Buchloe’s speedy property, but it surely does have considerably extra torque (730 Nm vs 650 Nm).

The ALPINA B3 wagon does 0 to 62 mph (100 km/h) in as little as 3.6 seconds to match the long-roof M3 and tops out at 190 mph (305 km/h). It’s really sooner than M’s Touring since BMW’s G81 is electronically restricted to 174 mph (280 km/h) when geared up with the non-compulsory M Driver’s Bundle.

This mélange of an aesthetic design and excessive efficiency doesn’t come low cost. You’re a wonderful all-rounder priced at €107,979. That makes it about €6,500 costlier than a base M3 Touring in Germany. Lest we neglect BMW is cooking up a pricier sports activities wagon with the CS by-product scheduled to reach in 2025.

As for the B3, it’s doubtless not lengthy for this world. Stories intensify about BMW’s determination to take ALPINA upmarket within the second half of the last decade. Doing so would imply the return of the B7 and the concentrate on high-end merchandise to the detriment of the extra inexpensive fashions. Consequently, ALPINA variations of the three Sequence, X3, 4 Sequence Gran Coupe, and the X4 are rumored to bow out after this technology. There may not even be one other B5 based mostly on the brand new 5 Sequence.

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