Joe Achilles Bargain!!!!, what?

Josh Collins Are you forgetting Henry Catchpole, Jethro Bovingdon, Matt Farah, Jonny Lieberman, Jason Plato and so on.

rvind92g Awesome. Glad to see other fans of Jonny Lieberman.

rvind92g Amen. A lot of good guys out there right now.

Brabus isn't a performance company anymore they just do ugly body and interior mods.. For stupid rich people

how is it? :)

@@kwk43 Ive still got it :)

Tuning chips?

Definitely not an Alpina owner...

M3/m4 can do 190 as well with factory limiter off option, Alpina 174/190

The B3 will do 190, the D3 does 174.

@RYAN JONATHAN MARTIN Thank You very much. You are Welcome.

Car Nut well.. it's a bmw, they always were kinda ugly, except maybe e46 and e39, those were ok-ish.

DGRWPF It's just the Alpina bits I think, the standard M5 and M6 GC are fantastic looking cars.

Samzilla and /Drive

Stuart Price I guess Drive needed someone to replace Chris Harris

Not the same, dumb comparison

nazhif1 It's a diesel, and got better mileage than M3/M4, and softer as well, which is kinda what you want for daily use.

Because it has very good real world MPG.

Because it's a diesel and it costs less than a BMW M3. This one would be perfect as a company car because where I live most companies only letting their employees choose between diesel engines.

nazhif1 Inaudible engine in real world, you really can't hear a diesel engine unless you're fully accelerating. And since this is a 6 cyl diesel, it even sounds very good. It has incredible torque, which means it pulls hard in every gear at every rpm. You'll never have a petrol engine car in 6th gear at 1500 rpm, feel like the car will about to stall judging by the sound, and then floor the throttle and get pushed so hard into the seat you'll feel like you're in 2nd gear. Diesels give you effortless performance. In real world, D3 is faster than M3. You'd have to rev the M3 to redline in order to leave the D3 behind, while D3 would be upshifting at 3500 rpm. On top of that, M3 can't even get close to the fuel consumption figures of the D3.

nazhif1 because its softer, quieter and therefore a more relaxed every day driver. plus its cheaper to run and almost as fast as the m3 (in every day driving probably feels even faster).

+o3tomas Massively different; that lavalina leather is something to behold, the blue dials are beautiful at night, oh, just so many things. Interestingly, most of the changes ARE unseen - the engineering is awesome. It would literally need a page to summarise all the work Alpina do regarding the engine, induction and cooling systems, aerodynamics, suspension, engine management system... Anyway, the best way to judge is to drive, and once you've driven an Alpina, you immediately start to 'get it'. :-)

Al Ghaus It's more than a BMW because it's an Alpina. Alpina builds "niche cars" based on BMWs with the help of BMW. Some of them are sold in the US by BMW North America.

***** oh thanks. Was really confused at first

derbigpr500 100 % agree with you, the first thing i thought was that the alpina name on front and the badges were ugly , but the rest of the car(from the exception of the exhaust ) look's like a "sleeper " a fast car that no one notice, and for me that are the best ones. and at the prices of the fuel's in Europe diesel is always welcome

Tiago Mano in my opinion it adds to a slightly dull 3 series and makes it look a bit more special

ashherbert26 the bumpers and other little touches are already nice , especially that only somebody that know will notice. for instance, there is an m550d that i see almost every day, and is just a little different to the 6 series, a little more aggressive with the lines, the exhaust on that carbon black look and little more, on first instance you may not notice, but when you start looking at the details you know is a nice car, and for me that is better because it's not a car just to show off, and only the ones that understand a little bit notice

derbigpr500 srsly? wtf is wrong with the 335d touring?

MrMrMrCaf that it only comes in xd and the supension on alpina's is better then on the normal bmw's. this includes even the new m3/4.

+7 Billion Assholes I take that back 350 is quite a lot lol.

+7 Billion Assholes D3/D4 are almost so fast on the track as m3/m4 with 350hp, because of torque. What would be after remap to 420hp?

The current D3 does use the 3 litre engine. 350 doesn't sound a lot, but its the same as a 997 S, with more Torque....and far more MPG!

Siddhartha Nomula Weren't you supposed to have given up all worldly possessions anyway? Why do you care?

leloodallasmultipass​ haha.. It took time for me to get!

Siddhartha Nomula hopefully, it was worth it;)

MrCorgh I do empathise somewhat. That's car journos for you. What can you do?