Test Drive Alpina B3 Convertible since 2007 Convertible

Test Drive BMW Alpina B3 Coupe: Exciting Individuality

What emotions are you experiencing when listening to your favorite musical work or enjoy the works of famous artists, or see how your child manifests his abilities on the arena or scene? Certainly you feel emotional arousal. This sensation will arise with you when you meet Alpina.
Body design, in star sparkling metallic, a comfortable salon, an derived engine, a very fast automatic transmission reaction and a lot of thoughtful small details. Parents of the Alpina belong to each of their own models, as a child, putting all the best qualities in it and raising all the best qualities. By the way, Alpina Manufactory is a small family business. From January 1, 1965, a small group (8 people), and since 1990, a team of one hundred and twenty employees confirm their work: the alpina logo \u003d quality mark.
Immersion This is how it is possible to name the landing in the BMW Alpina B3 Coupe salon. No, it does not cause a feeling of seating on the floor, the more scene can be raised higher. Four passengers fit freely, but in the rear seats with growth more than 190 cm comfort is not enough, and a review in small windows, as in the porthole. Definitely: Alpina is not for transportation.
The individuality of the Alpina is in every detail. Extending after easy pressing chassis-transformers, a shroud-refrigerator. The chair seems to be hugging you from all sides.
Adjusting the front seats provides for the movement forward-back, up-down, tilting the back, in the thickness of the lumbar part and especially gentle arms in lateral support side support. The driver's seat settings have auto-singing, and if you leave to release the rear passenger, the electric drive will return the chair with you to a given place. But the most exciting action is carried out automatic settings of mirrors and headlights. The machine reads the position of the driver in the chair and itself determines the angles of rotation / tilt of the side mirrors and headlight reflectors. However, they can be installed and mechanically. The steering wheel is also adjusted in height and under the length of the hands.
Climate control is divided into two zones, heated seats has three temperature levels per each.
Another thoughtful option: When you sit in Alpin and click the Start button to the right of the steering wheel, the foot drives out of the side panel, which feeds the seat belt, which completely deprives the need to spider around its axis. If you decide not to go, the foot will return to the place in a minute.
Key?!! No sticking hardware! Comfortable for clamping even in a female cam, a small box with beveled corners. Three buttons, understandable even for the most blonde itself: Arrow - Open, Logo Alpina Close, Open Trunk icon. To the right of the steering wheel for the key there is a socket, and above it - a red starter button. What was my surprise when the car started without a key in the castle?! It turns out that it has a chip and remotely transmits the necessary information to the Mountain Brain. The same perplexity caused the central castle.
I close the car, the key in hand, pull the handle - check, and turns on the lighting of the cabin and the door handle, still movement - the door opens! Alpina always recognizes his master.
Parktronic is interesting and system - it displays a full silhouette of the car from above and the sector with three degrees of approaching the obstacle. Even newcomer will cope with such a parking.
In the daytime, bright, but calm salon trim, Dakota CRME Beige, rushes. By the way, after the dummy winter night, the skin is not cold, you can sit even in a short skirt, without waiting for the heating of the seat. Inserts of the panel are made of natural wood. Several exclusive details: Plate with information about the manufacturer on the ceiling, made of silver 925 sample,
logo Mountains made of gravestone gold on the front panel, handmade embroidery on door trimming, thresholds and velor mats with emblem. In the dark, very warm amber light transmits the emotions of the home fireplace. This is only standard execution. At your request, the manufacturer can offer individual interior decisions in accordance with personal taste.
The capacity of the luggage compartment, at first glance, is small, showed itself from the best side. However, only participants in the experiment can tell sensations. In fact, the entire entourage and thoughtful care of the owner only confirms the accuracy of the Alpina to the premium class.
I must say, the alpine broke the stereotype in my consciousness. The filling is also a work of art innovative technique, low fuel consumption and excellent running characteristics. But first things first. Bi-Turbo is an economical 6-cylinder engine with a volume of 3.0 liters and a capacity of 360 horsepower with a double turbocharger in a quiet state of suffer quietly.
But when you want to experience the emission of adrenaline, the heart B3 can issue 285 km / h and accelerate to 100 km from a place in 4.8 seconds. And what sensations when you stand on the traffic light, and then the green, sneakers in the floor light up, it starts overclocking. A second turn on the first turbine, through another second, and with a cheetah river jumps up to 100-120km / h, leaving far behind the entire flow of amateur cars
The sportiness and ease of the B3 reaction is achieved thanks to the 6-speed automatic transmission with a very short switching time. If you recall the sensations, the increase in the transfer is really imperceptible, even in comparison with the mechanical switching. SWITCH-TRONIC technology gives gear by the buttons, ergonomically embedded in the roaring side of the steering wheel, right under the fingers, as in Formula 1. It is interesting that when the maximum or minimum speed is reached, the mode automatically changes to Drive. Fans of mechanics in Sport mode can physically pull the handle. There is one more similarity with racing cars of the diversity of the front and rear wheels, which, according to the statements of specialists, has a beneficial effect on stability.
Expenses perhaps the most important operational characteristics of any car. The fuel could not help not please 14 liters per 100 kilometers in the city, 7.2 on the highway. I managed to drive 600 km in a mixed cycle by 55 liters (this is 9.1 liters per 100 km). However, moderate appetite Alpina is manifested not only in nutrition. On-board computer shows oil levels, brake and coolant, brake pad wear and other consumables. This awareness allows you to be fully armed, passing a technical inspection and save on the replacement of the parts that have not developed. The minimum then the service will cost 5-6 thousand rubles.
An exclusive representative of Alpina in Russia with the exception of the North-West Region is Abtodom - offers BMW Alpina B3 Bi-Turbo Coupe in different sets from 74900 euros. In rubles, the price corridor begins approximately from 2 million 700 thousand rubles. The test car costs 93269 euros, or 3 million 420 thousand rubles. 174 rubles (at the rate of the Central Bank on 12.12.2008).
Editorial Business Autoclub Thanks Awetom Company for the provided car.
Posted by: Katerina Romanova
 
 

 

Source: Business Autoclub