Alpina began as a maker of aftermarket performance parts for BMW cars but is now recognized as an actual auto manufacturer by the German government. Its cars are assembled alongside BMW's own cars, and avoid competing head-to-head with the maker's own M-cars by placing more of an emphasis on high-speed touring than wild-eyed redline performance.
At the top of the Alpina lineup is the B7, their riff on BMW's big 7-series luxury sedan. Whereas the peak of the G12 7-series was the M760Li, powered by a 599hp twin-turbo 6.6L V-12, Alpina's version comes with a 4.4L twin-turbo V-8 that sends 600 horsepower to all four wheels via an eight-speed automatic transmission.
Car and Driver tested one of these 4,940-pound beasts and it roared to sixty miles per hour in 3.2 seconds and through the quarter in 11.4 seconds at 123mph. Unlike BMW, Alpina doesn't have any sort of gentleman's agreement with anybody regarding top speeds and claims the B7 has a terminal velocity of 205mph. The number I found eye-popping was the braking distance from seventy, which was only 151 feet, which is pretty amazing for two and a half tons of fun.
Price as tested was $153,195 for an Alpina Green car that looked just like the one in the photos, which were snapped in November of 2025 using a Pentax K7 and an 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom lens.
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