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Post by Big Blue on Jun 11, 2020 11:13:42 GMT
Fuck that looks nice. Front end is a massive improvement. Where's Chip Butty's calculator......? |
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Post by PetrolEd on Jun 11, 2020 11:21:41 GMT
Wow, thats bloody lovely. I know a 760 makes more sense with regards to toys and performance but it isn't an Alpina. And a B7's the full bombay bad boy. |
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Post by Tim on Jun 11, 2020 11:27:40 GMT
I didn't realise the M5 wasn't currently available, not that it matters pending a lottery win.
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Post by racingteatray on Jun 11, 2020 11:50:30 GMT
Wow, thats bloody lovely. I know a 760 makes more sense with regards to toys and performance but it isn't an Alpina. And a B7's the full bombay bad boy. My piano teacher at school drove an Alpina 7-series in that shade of blue. It was the E32 version and very impressive. From memory he also had a red Alpine GTA and a Mercedes 450SLC in a similar shade of blue to the Alpina - he used to park right in front of the music building. No idea how a music teacher at Wellington could afford to indulge such esoteric motoring taste - perhaps he had inherited wealth. It's a long time ago now, but I seem to recall that he wasn't English - possibly he was German. |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jun 11, 2020 12:19:49 GMT
Excuse my ignorance but when the Alpina says "Biturbo", i.e two turbos, doesn't the standard BMW it's based on have twin turbos anyway? Do they replace the standard turbos?
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Post by Big Blue on Jun 11, 2020 12:28:11 GMT
They don’t replace the turbos: they put their spec ones (KHI I think) on a 550 block which has already had Mahle pistons fitted and other internal gubbins.
The 550 blocks are delivered to Buchloe, Alpina re-engineer them then Send them back to Munich to be fitted on the production line. Much of the other stuff is stock BMW but not from that model so mine has 7-series brakes for example.
The cars then go back to Buchloe for software changes and interior re-fit as specced by a client. When BMW develop a new 3, 5 or 7 Alpina are on the development team to understand the base they’ll be working with.
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Post by PetrolEd on Jun 11, 2020 12:43:04 GMT
What a baller, he obviously had pictures of the head and bursar up to no good. I always thought it law that teachers had to have crap cars but the missus has just taken on a new teaching assistant at her school who's daily is an Audi R8 Cab.
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Post by PetrolEd on Jun 11, 2020 12:44:31 GMT
Wow, thats bloody lovely. I know a 760 makes more sense with regards to toys and performance but it isn't an Alpina. And a B7's the full bombay bad boy. My piano teacher at school drove an Alpina 7-series in that shade of blue. It was the E32 version and very impressive. From memory he also had a red Alpine GTA and a Mercedes 450SLC in a similar shade of blue to the Alpina - he used to park right in front of the music building. No idea how a music teacher at Wellington could afford to indulge such esoteric motoring taste - perhaps he had inherited wealth. It's a long time ago now, but I seem to recall that he wasn't English - possibly he was German. What a baller, he obviously had pictures of the head and bursar up to no good. I always thought it law that teachers had to have crap cars but the missus has just taken on a new teaching assistant at her school who's daily is an Audi R8 Cab. |
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Post by Big Blue on Jun 11, 2020 13:12:25 GMT
One of our French teachers was fabled: she turned up in a Mk1 Golf GTi - a new one with the 1.8 engine in Mars Red (2). I'm now going to have to go and look at them on Car and Classic.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jun 11, 2020 13:14:32 GMT
Wow, thats bloody lovely. I know a 760 makes more sense with regards to toys and performance but it isn't an Alpina. And a B7's the full bombay bad boy. My piano teacher at school drove an Alpina 7-series in that shade of blue. It was the E32 version and very impressive. From memory he also had a red Alpine GTA and a Mercedes 450SLC in a similar shade of blue to the Alpina - he used to park right in front of the music building. No idea how a music teacher at Wellington could afford to indulge such esoteric motoring taste - perhaps he had inherited wealth. It's a long time ago now, but I seem to recall that he wasn't English - possibly he was German. Obviously living off Nazi gold, stolen during the Holocaust. |
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Post by Big Blue on Jun 11, 2020 13:19:25 GMT
My piano teacher at school drove an Alpina 7-series in that shade of blue. It was the E32 version and very impressive. From memory he also had a red Alpine GTA and a Mercedes 450SLC in a similar shade of blue to the Alpina - he used to park right in front of the music building. No idea how a music teacher at Wellington could afford to indulge such esoteric motoring taste - perhaps he had inherited wealth. It's a long time ago now, but I seem to recall that he wasn't English - possibly he was German. Obviously living off Nazi gold, stolen during the Holocaust. Nah - Wellington College. Clearly inherited wealth from the slave trade. |
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Post by racingteatray on Jun 11, 2020 14:15:35 GMT
Obviously living off Nazi gold, stolen during the Holocaust. Nah - Wellington College. Clearly inherited wealth from the slave trade. Welly's not old enough for that. Abolition of the Slave Trade Act: 1807, so prior to the Battle of Waterloo. Foundation of Wellington College as the national monument to the 1st Duke of Wellington: 1859. The story, as taught to me when I was there, was that following the death of the Iron Duke in 1852, a substantial amount of money was raised for the purposes of creating a monument to him from a grateful nation, and suggestions were invited as to what form the monument should take. Supposedly the favoured suggestion, from his family, was to erect a statue of him in every city and town in the United Kingdom, and that this was the plan right up until word of it reached Prince Albert, a noted educational reformer. He, rightly, thought this was a preposterous waste of money and managed to persuade Victoria that a better monument would be the foundation by royal charter of a charitable institution to educate the sons of military officers killed fighting for their country. The rest of it you can read about here: www.wellingtoncollege.org.uk/about/college-history/#:~:text=Wellington%20College%20was%20granted%20its,the%20foundation%20stone%20in%201856. |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jun 11, 2020 19:41:40 GMT
A Bastion of privilege. The BLM crowd will have that knocked down shortly.
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Post by racingteatray on Jun 11, 2020 21:11:23 GMT
A Bastion of privilege. The BLM crowd will have that knocked down shortly. Although even in my day the BAME kids were easily the pupils with the most money as I recall. |
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Post by Martin on Jun 23, 2021 17:34:06 GMT
This is more like it. The Golf will be 3 years old in a month and I've had a quote through for extending the warranty, all component cover with £0 excess is only £348.
There is a new 'All In Service Package' which is a great deal, 2 x Services / 2 x MOT/ 2 Years Warranty / 2 Years Breakdown Cover, all for £802.80 or £33.45 a month. That's pretty much half price even taking into account the lower 3+ fixed price servicing costs.
I can't see the new car itch staying away for 2 years, so will stick with getting the 12 months warranty, then all it will need is a minor service (fixed price £180) so the total cost will be £528 and I've got breakdown cover through the bank. It's the same fixed price for any car up to 2.0 litre engine that's 3-6 years old and has done less than 100,000 miles at time of activation which make it an even better deal as the car gets older.
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Post by Stuntman on Jun 23, 2021 20:04:50 GMT
That sounds a very decent deal and probably well worth it for the peace of mind.
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Post by PG on Jun 24, 2021 10:19:09 GMT
That does sound incredibly cheap for what the deal is. Maybe desperate to keep people in their current VW's until supply problems ease?
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Post by Martin on Jun 24, 2021 10:47:27 GMT
That does sound incredibly cheap for what the deal is. Maybe desperate to keep people in their current VW's until supply problems ease? Possibly, certainly desperate to keep people in the dealer network. If you ordered a Golf 8R now you wouldn't see it until 2022, which is crazy. |
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