Test Drive Alpina B3 Convertible since 2007 Convertible

Life in blue-green light

Actually, this village is called gluing. Two years ago, the receiving party simply tried to mislead us, calling the desired settlement more smoothed bay. So that Russian people are not distracted by the secondary, that is, to drink. Because the wine business for Alpina is still secondary. At least, the car showroom is right there, behind the sliding doors of the central entrance, and in the wine basement will have to descend on the elevator. Burkard Bovenzipen has already twenty years old as a car prefers an elevator. But without his participation, no one model is launched in production: it is not only the founder's father here, but also the main test pilot.
Although the pilot has already exceeded over seventy, Alpina engineers, carefully cleaned in bumps from all over the Germans, listening to its advice not only from respect. Burcard still in his youth managed to bring to mind BMW 1500, creating a motor with a double WEBER carburetor. The automotive press did not in vain scattered the praise of the student-techmanary, even in BMW recognized his talent, retaining the factory guarantee first improved cars, and then giving the right to its company to use the auto giant conveyor for the production of BMW Alpina.
Collaboration lasts for more than four decades. And no matter how much in Alpina, they did not explain that the benefit from it is mutual, to comprehend than this family manufactory can be useful, it is impossible. There will still have to get behind the wheel of the product of this cooperation.
We pass by the representative B7, luxurious B6, dynamic B5 and stop your view on the new coupe BMW Alpina B3 Bi-Turbo. Just like a sedan and a convertible, it is based on 335 BMW models. Alpina built its first turbocharger engine in 1978, then on the basis of the fifth and sixth series, today for the first time on the basis of the treshka.
From just BMW cars with additive Alpina distinguishes not only the engine. The cooling system collected in the booze, as well as a number of other key parts. All this is sent to the BMW plant and on the conveyor is installed on serial Bavarian cars. Then the case remains only behind the original aerodynamic body kit and a lagging salon.
If you want to call it tuning, well, if you please. But here it is called production and twitch under the hood to their own seven VIN. In addition, Alpina has recently concluded a new contract with BMW. One and a half million euros of investment and on the territory of the plant are brought large (in comparison with other buildings) a two-storey case for expanding the design and test departments. In the near future, a modest manufactory is going to pick up a part of the engine of the BMW concern from Munich.
The first thing you want to do was driving at the wheel B3 Bi-Turbo to leave the autobahn. Moreover, from Alpenshtraße, 35, where Alpina is located, before leaving on the A96 only two kilometers of the way, and here it is a high-speed road. In some of its sections, the upper speed limit with which cars fly it is not limited. One of these sites is just in the area of \u200b\u200bthe bum. And it does not even seem coincidence.
The attractiveness of Germany for motorists around the world is that here you can satisfy your thirst for speed without violating traffic rules. And here we are accelerating. First up to hundreds, then up to two and more. It is more precisely closer to the maximum possible 285 km / h. While the world around the world does not become colored stripes, it stretches gray, and there is a green and blue, but these two colors are branded at Alpina. In memory immediately pops up the story of Borkard Bovenzipena about how the other day he managed to test on the track Bugatti Veyron. He did not have enough 3 km / h to achieve the highest possible speed. That is, it dispersed to 397 km / h, and the only thing that surprised him was that this fuel consumption: at such a gasoline speed, it would be enough for fifteen minutes. And the B3 Bi-Turbo stroke is from 500 to 600 km ... But here on the left strip, according to which we rushed as quickly, the leisurely Burger rebuilt. The autoban will not surprise him, and we had to experience how good the B3 Bi-Turbo brakes are, in an emergency, slowing down our car with honest 280 to 120 km / h.
Returning from this rapid test, we saw a road worker who diligently displaced on the asphalt with the help of a huge stenter number 30 such in Germany restricting the speed of movement in residential areas. And it is such, by the way, to say, the step of the speedometer scale at all BMW Alpina, it is 30 km / h, and not 20 km / h, as usual usually. And we calmly go past the speed. We even smile this worker. Not only because the adrenaline BMW Alpina laptop is already obtained by us. But because, with all its pickup and suquestness, B3 Bi-Turbo is comfortable and at low speeds, which will not say about most sports cars for whom the movement in a dense urban stream is a true mockery of the driver.
The reason for the accuracy of B3 Bi-Turbo in a six-cylinder row engine with a volume of 3.0 liters with a double turbocharger. Acceleration until hundreds of 4.8 seconds. Exactly as much as the BMW M3 has a coupe, which has a more powerful eight-cylinder engine with a volume of 4.0 liters under the hood. And if EMKI has a maximum torque of 400 nm at 3900 rpm, then the B3 moment in 500 nm is achieved at 3,800 rpm.
In other words, at least M3 and B3 are made on the basis of the same car, they are essentially very different. That is why BMW is so loyal to Alpina cars. They do not grow competitive, but make a model range more diverse. In addition, it is important that EMCA is still available only with a manual gearbox, and the B3 Bi-Turbo has a six-speed sports automatic machine with the possibility of mechanical gear shift on the steering wheel. Who will argue that it only adds a car of comfort.

Convenience This is what we want in life from our cars, apartments and then on the list of anyone. It is convenient for you to sit here, does not blow? The bovenzipen in the evening asked in the evening, pouring white wine in the glass. And, it seems that he has long traded any speed for dinner in a circle of pretty girls in his beloved restaurant. Maybe that's why all BMW Alpina is not only comfortable, but also a bit homemade. Yes, they have acceleration to hundreds less than 5 seconds, and the maximum speed under three hundred. But they are so gently sitting in them: the skin is so thin, it rarely rarely when the seats of sports cars are trimmed. And these plus and minus on the steering wheel, denoting the increase and lowering the transmission when manually switching speeds, so miles in their manual work, as if embroidery on the grandmother's tablecloth. Although sometimes the stitches on it resemble the road marking. And next to the stripes, so the gray stretches, and next to the green and blue.

Abstracts in the same time
1. Dealer BMW Alpina, Avtod, opens a new showroom in Moscow on Kutuzovsky Avenue, the GDK will be presented all the BMW Alpina models.
2. The Russian buyer can go to the boost and see how his car make. In the program Excursion to the enterprise, lunch and wine Alpina as a gift.
3. Once upon a time, Alpina had his own vineyard in Hungary, which was sold due to the fact that it was impossible to remotely monitor the process.
4. On the one hand the house of Burcarada is the plant itself, on the other parking lot of new BMW Alpina.
BMW ALPINA B3 BI-TURBO COUPE
6-cylinder engine in a row, gasoline
Farm volume (cube cm) 2979
Power (hp at rpm) 360 / 5500-6000
Moment (nm at rpm) 500/3800-5000
Rear-wheel drive
Transmission automatic, 6-speed
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4580/1782/1395
Mass Curb (kg) 1560
Maximum speed (km / h) 285
Acceleration to 100 km / h (c) 4.8
Fuel consumption average, (l / 100 km) 9.7
Price in Moscow () from 74 900
Text: Anna Kilimnik
Photo: Mark Peel and Alpina Burkard Bovenspiepen GmbH

 

Source: "Autopilot"