BMW NAZCA C2: THE M1 SUCCESSOR BMW WAS TOO SCARED TO BUILD A 350 hp BMW V12 that weighed less than a Mini Cooper S For all the heritage BMW has built around the M1, for all the magazine covers Top Gear and Evo have given the M1 Hommage and the more recent retro pieces, … Read more
BMW Z8: The Car Top Gear Trashed in 2000 Now Outprices Every Rival It Lost To Two hundred grand. That’s what a concours BMW Z8 trades for today, on either side of the Atlantic. A pristine Aston Martin DB7 Volante from the same year sits at about fifty. A Ferrari 360 Spider, seventy to eighty. … Read more
Vision BMW Alpina: They Killed a Sports Brand to Build a Maybach There’s a video Chris Harris filmed years ago in an Alpina B7. He’s on an unrestricted stretch of autobahn, indicated needle past 280 km/h, and he keeps saying the same thing in different ways: this car is doing something the M5 cannot. It … Read more
BOVENSIEPEN ZAGATO: WHEN BMW BOUGHT ALPINA, THE FAMILY STAYED IN THE WORKSHOP BOVENSIEPEN ZAGATO: WHEN BMW BOUGHT ALPINA, THE FAMILY STAYED IN THE WORKSHOP Ask anyone who watched Chris Harris drive an ALPINA B7 down a wet B-road back in the day. He came back out of the car with that grin he only gets … Read more
ALPINA: 60 Years of the Strangest Partnership in Motoring There’s a question that has followed ALPINA for 60 years. A question that seems simple but hides one of the most fascinating stories in European motoring. Tuner or manufacturer? The short answer is: manufacturer. Officially recognized by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport since 1983 and certified … Read more
