Alpina is getting more and more ink because of because of that rolling cannonade known as the B7 and its closer ties with BMW. The company's tuning business dates to 1962 when Burkard Bovensiepen began fiddling with Weber carburetors, then his company began racing in 1968 and was eventually certified as an automaker in 1983. Two of its rarer specimens from those early years have gotten a glance from the folks at Petrolicious: the E24 B10 and E24 B7S. Based on the BMW 6 Series, the Alpina versions made one of the most special coupes from the Eighties even more so. According to the video, ... Read More

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Review: 2011 BMW ALPINA B7 1262382420

Rocket-powered 7-Series variant is scary fast, uber-sophisticated Lovers of fast cars, horsepower, turbochargers and techy gadgets may wish to tuck something absorbent into the front of your shirt collars before reading further. The remainder of this page covers the BMW Alpina B7-the flagship of a German aftermarket specialist that's been tweaking ...