BMW Alpina B10 V8 Touring - Should You Buy One?
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- čas přidán 15. 02. 2022
- The BMW Alpina (E39) B10 V8 Touring is a special car, no doubt about it. A sonorous engine, luxurious interior and supreme practicality make it very hard to beat. Under the bonnet is a 4.6-litre naturally aspirated V8 engine, delivering 340bhp and 347lb-ft of torque to the rear wheels through a five-speed ZF ‘Switch Tronic’ automatic transmission.
The Alpina B10 V8 Touring combines a muscular hand-crafted V8 engine with elegant styling to create a bespoke estate with a discreet sporting edge. Believed to be the only example of this model finished in this colour scheme and offered for sale in impressive cosmetic and mechanical condition, this B10 V8 promises to make for a refined and practical family vehicle as well as an entertaining B-road companion.
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These days it's easier to spot 300K car on the road than something iconic like this.
@@wolfiestreet6899 no one asked you
@@thatmatty231guy no one asked for your opinion either lol
@@blackmetalgoat9060 I didn’t give it though lol
Especially when g wagons are like 250 market value right now 😂
@@cripknuckles9112 G wagons are shit
How can anyone choose a suv over something understated and classy like this
Gorgeous car
An Alpina D5 was one of my favourite cars for smashing through the miles, smoother than the M versions.
I bet this one B10 is lovely.
Beautiful ! Love green cars... thats such a tasteful set up
Green just touches something inside me l don't even know what but l right there with you.
Lovely cars these. I used to have a 1999 B10 V8 in black. Previous to that a 2000 B10 3.3 in blue. Both saloons.
By the way, 375 bhp was the S, as already stated, this has 340 bhp. Still plenty to give a decent shove in the back.
This particular example has 4.6L engine (F4) with vanos unit (engine cover with shaped space for oil dipstick) so 347bhp. The earliest cars untill probably 11.98 had 4.6 without vanos unit (straight lines engine cover- F3) having 340bhp.
High point in fast wagons and 90's design, I'd have this over a contemporary fast Estate or SUV!
I love the reviews like this you guys are one the greatest just regular grown up reviews great roller shots and commentary keep the great content coming
the e39 is such a masculine car but without any bravado.
The peak of BMW in my opinion.
I remember when we (South africa) got our first Alpinas in the early 90s. It was the E34 B10. I only ever saw two in person and both times they caused a stir. Those gorgeous alloys and that body kit gave it a stance so much better than even the M5 of that generation. Very special cars indeed.
Seriously, how gorgeous is this
Absolutely love the front look of the car. Classic
The exhaust - when played through studio monitor speakers - sounds like a massive thunderstorm!
That's the nicest 5 series I've seen. E39, Alpina, wagon, green/tan. 😍
What a great thorough review I love to listen to incredibly knowledgeable people talk about cars. I wish I could afford such things… 👍
Great video, love Alpinas. I'd like to see a B10 Bi Turbo / E32 B12 feature too.
Thankfully I have a stick shift e39 touring. It's rusty & has over 250k on it now, so eventually I'll consider a swap & full resto. And now I'm SOLD on the v8 swap. I was DROOLING at the exaust note. Thankful I found this video.
Rust around the wheel arches? Front of the side skirts? Same on my E39 touring! 221k on the clock so a bit of catching up to do with yours.
That colour combo is to die for.
A very beautiful car...and a beautiful presentation as well
This car, and in this color, is amazing!
Without watching the entire video, i would say YES
I once had a e34 b10 3.5, number 47, it felt really special, the handling was incredible for an 88 car.
I did PDI's on a handful of B10's in Nottingham back in the day, dream car for me.
As a huge fan of wagons, V8's, BMW, Alpina, and Green cars....not knowing this car existed until today and then seeing this video pretty much blew my mind. The want is strong with this one!
That’s a lovely, lovely thing. My uncle had a nav screen mine that in his 735i.
Yes! Lovely car more of these videos
The colour is astonishing
Absolutely stunning 😍
Stunning.
Yes would love to
Beautiful car, and those wheels! 😍
Damn they look good Ialso love them!!😍😍
Nice review. Cool car.
How much extra does it cost to hire Chris to do his schtick about a car for sale on Collecting Cars?
Great looking car.
I have an E39 touring & want to lift it up a bit, that alpina front bar is perfect dont get me wrong l luke all the m5 bars ppl update to but its a tiny bit to garish & then ld have to do exhaust, this is stunning for a soccer mum. Prob would tweek exhaust 2. Ay ppeps that silver grill is killer? Y wld l put a black grill on a white car?
I sure love my e46 touring
putting one of these motors in my 6 speed E38 as we speak. nice
Very luxury,good car 😍
God bless the e39 …simply the best looking sedan or estate of all times
Like #1000. Well deserved!
what a beauty
I have a e39 sport touring of my own, but seeing this alpina made me soo jealous.
Does your e39 rattle as much as mine ?
Wonderful color Alpina! Someone please replace the crooked Alpina lettering on the rear hatch!
Subtle and sophisticated says the man sitting in a mustard yellow leather and garish wood interior! Hope Alpina got better source E39 Tourings than the two I had the misfortune to buy, and if not, worked out the myriad design faults and snags before sale. That glass hatch and dead pixels for example. Great video nonetheless.
Love it. I have an equally special B3 3.3 75k miles coming up for sale. Mine was the first e46 Alpina in the UK B3 3.3 #009. Hope it can find a home with a collector.
Get in touch with us Andy! We would be very happy to help www.collectingcars.com/sell
@@collectingcars thanks. Personally I don't want to auction it. Unless it had a video like the B10 one done which would be fabulous.
Did the video estate sell? Love the B10! My old boss had one!!
Of course you should!!:)
I had a B10 3.3 followed by a V8s ( and an E39 M5 ). They are good cars but they do rust - a lot. Gearbox oil needs changing and head gaskets can go. They are quick rather than fast. A Golf R estate would run rings around it now.
The powerhouses of 20 years ago all have been eclipsed in speed by modern hot compact cars. Still they are just so fun and cool.
While you drive one the most of cars are finally always behind as it goes nearly 290km/h. Every example factory speed unlocked 😝
Sehr schönes Auto
I would rather a e39 B10 Alpina over an m5
Did you sell it? Love the B10 V8!! The S ware very fast! Brilliant car!! 😂
The in mid-2000's, in one of the BMW magazines, they did a feature on an Alpina 3-series. They said that for the engine, that had 1800 parts, they swapped out 600, modified 600, and left 600 alone. You get what you pay for
They based their E46 engine on the old 90's e36 engine architecture. It was all a pointless exercise. We would have all been so much better off if they used the M54 E46 platform.
Lack of crackles and bangs reminds us of a time when rich people had sense and style, same goues for the understated design of many powerful fast luxury cars. Today... bling it up, right from the factory, so it matches my golld teeth inserts and wakes an entire city on the bread run.
Honestly hiding the valve stem in the center of the wheel is genius
if you can, absolutely yes you should !!!
You've got to have the pin stripes on an Alpina.
Of course you should buy one.
Luxury mansion, with an ultra rare Alpina parked outside and...was that a gen2 Punto with tied up plastic rim covers?
Small detail. The caps that cover the bolt for wheel bolt cover are not OEM! There should be a key lock there. How do I know? I made exactly the same looking 3D printed caps for my R17 OEM Alpina softlines
they look exactly the same as the wheel covers on my 1999 4.6 b10 , its a plastic cover you pull of and the lock is under the caps
Correct! There's should also be a set of separate keys for the wheel nut locks too, IIRC £500 to replace, it's easy to spot the knock off softlines- valves!!!
@@derekcasey3192 Valves and also count of spokes, as IIRC Alpina patented 21 spoke design as well
This is one alpina I’ve never seen before.
They took the capacity to 375bhp. Ok , so they took the bhp to 4.6 litre ?
What's with the bizarre sound level problem?
Not even seen the video, but the answer will always be YES...
BEEEUTIFUL!!! 😀😀
So the pinstripes are what, invisible?
Absolutely delicious!
Is very particolar BMW.Excuse me for my English!Very good,my compliment 👍🎖️👋🏻
i watched 2 seconds of the video and the answer is yes ;)
Saw that in MK
I want
hey. do you still have the car?
Bmw e39 model engine Alpin B versia good 😎 👍
Where I from, we don’t let tyres down in the valve… not that I’d ever mess with another man/persons automobile
*on
Should I Get It?
That shit is fire!!!
Wagon ! You mean Estate
Back to metaphor school for you then!
I bet it takes an hour each to clean those lovely wheels.
the thing i hate about every alpina is how glued on and underdeveloped that front "bodykit" spoiler lip always looks
It actually accentuates the side rockers rockers well. Similar in size and proportion.
God has forsaken us for choosing suv over estates, and I can’t blame him.
Yeeeeees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
needs a supercharger now ... but awesome car
What is not as fast as the m5 though
This color "Alpina green"- should be identical to vermont green(356) color, dont know if it was an individual color
Individual. +3000DM as a factory option in '99
E39 frame chassis icon..
Buy buy buy
Tyre value : when was the last time someone let your tyres down ? Exactly. The reason that the value is where it is, is to keep the value closer to the hub, which makes the wheel easier to balance, and centres the weight nearer the hub. Stopping people letting down the tyres has nothing to do with it, either as a design or a desired by customer feature
I doubt it's even that. When's the last time your tyre fitter couldn't balance your tyre cause of that valve on the rim? It just looks better, fully a cosmetic feature.
On each cap there's a sticker with instruction about the way air valve should be covered to keep proper balance.
should I buy well kept Alpina if I can?...its like asking yourself "should I have a happy hour lobster?"
Look at it! Brand of BMW was design of exquisite taste and Alpina a Signature of exclusivity!...these days...you can hear from speech of Alpina owners that BMWs they are pushed to work with are nothing just pain...
But real concured Gran turismo model E39 530 3.0 diesel 57m3d turbo engine
Yes, because it combines a BMW straight SIX in 3L form and its a diesel that is economic for the power.
M cars have power you can rarely use and the diesel goes past you in the filling station.
We don’t have that in the usa
When it reaches 25 years you can import one. BTW: have seen some on bring a trailer but very rarely seen anyway.
Those are the incorrect headlights for a T-reg car (late 1998/early 1999). It should have the earlier type with amber indicators. The Alpina is a rare and desirable beast - I have the next best thing, a mega spec 540i Touring, Slate/Stone Green inside and out, every available extra - it was £52,322 new in 2001. The additional power would be nice, but I'm not a fan of the stripes.
my 1999 4.6 b10 has the same headlights so most likely it was a crossover period
@@repairitdontreplaceit they only appeared in mid late 2000. Yours was probably a retrofit too. The taillights also changed at this time. Those are wrong on this car too.
@@richardharrold9736 sorry your wrong they are the originals . i will check my tail lights to but have no reason to think they have been a retrofit unless done buy the dealer pre sale
@@repairitdontreplaceit firstly, it's "you're". Secondly, this car is two years too old for those lights. They were pretty much the only thing that changed at the face-lift, and they are the same shape, so are a direct swap for the older type.
I have the same model as this, RHD b10 V8 Touring. The original bill of sale (which I have) is for £80,000, back in 1998. Crazy to know the difference between the top spec BMW car and the Alpina model
Should You Buy One? More like, Could You Buy One?
Even if I wanted one (which I really do) I couldn't buy one.
Could have gone an extra mile and matched the headliner or blacked it out.
Alpina has their own manufacturering licence, so it is NOT an BMW. It is an Alpina, just as an RUF is not a Porsche.
It’s a 5 series BMW.
@@TrueFilter except Alpina is there own manufacturer more than just a modified 5 series
U should
Needs a manual though
Love the colour, don't like the aftermarket head- rearlights and facelift grilles.
I own #22 / 204 love it, but man it's thirsty :)
They are not aftermarket. The are facelift OEM lights that have been retro fitted
the front bumper does not fit or he has installed the facelift headlights and taillights.🤣
This is a strange car! Facelift headlights, grills, and taillights, but prefacelift front bumper and navigation screen
@@michu6777 got '98 with xenon lights and orange indicators in alpina blue colour. Not gonna change anything.
The MOT history for it is missing, why is that?
It's a Japanese imported example
@@asimhumayun7428 The registration date is June 1999. This is the date it was registered here in the UK. That makes no sense for a Japanese import. The only MOT on record is from October 2021, 3 months ago, which is probably when they were preparing the car for sale. How is it possible for a car to have 113k miles on the clock, registered here in the UK 23 years ago and have only 1 MOT test, 3 months ago? What happened to the other MOT tests?
@Ioannis Iordanidis The registration date is when it was registered for use for the first time. But this does not have to be in the UK.
In this case it was first used in Japan in June 1999.
Given the first UK MOT was in October, the car likely arrived in the UK around this time.
@@asimhumayun7428 Thank you for explaining. This makes sense and also explains the odometer in kilometres for a left hand drive car (Japanese). Thanks again!
Very special.
An automotive estate agent in skinny jeans…
When the calibre of cars offered by CC is so high, it’s a shame not to have someone equally as engaging to showcase them. Would be tempted to watch/like the videos instead of just comment.
Yeah, I'm surprised Chris Harris didn't film this, it's exactly what he loves.
This is a long winded way to say you don’t like the bloke.