The Alpina B5 is one of the Alpina entries the open record knows by name and by date — in 2005, and by little else. That is not nothing: a name in the catalogue is where a car's story starts to be recoverable.
How it came about
The Alpina B5 and D5 are a series of high performance executive cars manufactured by German automobile manufacturer Alpina, which is based on the BMW 5 Series of the car manufacturer BMW.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Alpina's history is not in doubt: the Alpina B10 came before it. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Audi Q7, the Kia Sportage, the Bugatti Veyron. Its Alpina stablemates include the Alpina B10 and the Alpina B10 (E39).
Alpina B5 (E60)