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Crikey, that’s an incredible second picture - I bet it was a bit scary at the time!

If you’re very tempted I wouldn’t want to miss out on this one as it’s a great specification and I think good value compared to my previous #340 which was an equivalent age and specification but had done 26k and was £75k in Jan 21 - so only 10% more after 2 1/2 years inflation and lower miles too. I...

First birthday today - 12500 faultless miles (by the car rather than my driving). The computer says I have been driving for 17 1/2 days @ 40.9 overall mpg which is improving all the time. Will update with a few more first year thoughts over the weekend, currently preparing for Old Trafford tomorrow!...

https://www.evo.co.uk/alpina/b5/206015/ ... 023-review

EVO review too, much the same.

Two lovely blues - interesting to see how day to day living compares. The B4 interior looks interesting with what look like piped seats? The silver window surround looks really good with the blue and stripes but not sure about the silver wing vent.

29DBF1C9-ACA0-4583-97FA-B77315D036A3.jpeg Two Alpina features in Autocar this week - “like the M5 CS, the B5 GT has an entirely carbon fibre bonnet - the first on an Alpina since the B6 S of 2007”. I have no idea about the B6 S, but the GT categorically does not have a carbon fibre bonnet, it has m...

https://www.sytner.co.uk/vehicle-detail ... ffabee6b2b

Lovely colour and specification and seems good value relative to the couple of LCI ones for sale at over £30k more.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/al ... irst-drive

Forgot to attach this.

One has just arrived in Autocar. I like “assiduously honed” but calling the “dive planes a little incongruous” when they are just in front of enormous gold/bronze wheels seems a little harsh on the canards. The chalk colour isn’t doing the wheels any favours. The Touring can be configured on the UK ...

Or even the M3 touring!

At 6’5” and having endured four years in a Mini, my son has just PCP’d a 3 year old approved used 320i. I bought an (also silver) E36 325i at the same age - night and day different to drive but it’s a shame that the straight six has made way for a gritty but effective four. If all goes well I have a...

Chapeau to those parking even further away than me. Love the lonely 8 series and that White’s get a mention. I’ve bumped into owning a couple of M5s so it’s only in jest……BUT… 10 sit ups this morning (v hot in Preston) - a different angle from behind the glass - I know the M4 in the disabled parking...

A couple of Saturdays ago I was attempting a few poorly executed middle aged sit ups behind the (graciously) reflective glass upstairs in the Preston Nuffield. I was fortuitously distracted by the parking antics of the maroon M5 below, which made 4 slightly thrusting attempts at reversing into the s...

There are oodles of photos on Bimmerpost.com including a whole section just of Alpina - I can’t find a link to attach but they are easy to find from the website.

£71025……wow. No more guessing sale prices by me!