Alpina B6
Alpina
Alpina
The Alpina B6 (F12) is the third generation of the high performance grand tourer manufactured by German automobile manufacturer Alpina. Introduced at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, the B6 was based on the BMW 6 Series and was available in coupé and convertible body styles, with the latter being introduced at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show.
A third saloon bodystyle called the gran coupé was introduced in 2014. The Alpina B6 gran coupé was replaced by the Alpina B8 gran coupe (G16) in 2021.
From the Wikipedia article Alpina B6 (F12), CC BY-SA.
The Alpina B6 is one of 31 Alpina models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2011. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Alpina B6 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Lamborghini Lamborghini Aventador, the Lexus Lexus LFA, the Mazda Mazda CX-5 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Alpina B6 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 4.4 L BMW N63 twin-turbocharged V8; kerb weight is recorded at Coupé: 1945 kg (dry) / 2320 kg (max weight) / Convertible: 2095 kg (dry) / 2430 kg (max weight) / Saloon (Gran Coupé): 2105 kg (dry) / 2550 kg (max weight); drive goes through 8-speed ZF 8HP70 automatic; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive / Front-engine, all-wheel-drive (xDrive, Gran Coupé only). Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Alpina's own catalogue the Alpina B6 sits alongside the Alpina B10, the Alpina B10 (E39), the Alpina B10 Bi-Turbo, the Alpina B12. The record names the Alpina B6 (E63) as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Assembly is recorded at Germany: Buchloe.
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