The Alpina B3 (F30) is a 4-door saloon / 5-door station wagon from Alpina, built from 2013 to 2019, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: 3.0 L BMW N55 twin-turbocharged straight-6 engine.
The story
The Alpina B3 (F30/F31) and Alpina D3 (F30/F31) are compact executive cars manufactured by German automobile manufacturer, Alpina. Based on the BMW 3 Series (F30), the B3 is available in saloon and wagon body styles. The car was officially launched at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show.
What is underneath
Power comes from 3.0 L BMW N55 twin-turbocharged straight-6 engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1610 kg. It shifts through a 8-speed ZF 8HP70 automatic. The wheelbase is 2810 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Alpina B3 (E90); its successor was the Alpina B3 (G20); assembly was at Buchloe, Germany. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Infiniti Q50, the Mazda CX-5, the Tesla Model X — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Alpina catalogue sit the Alpina B10 and the Alpina B10 (E39).
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