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If you are looking
for a minivan, you have come to the wrong page. This is no
ordinary car. This is the
car “the little old lady from Pasadena” would have loved to own. The
“Ultimate Granny Wagon” a BMW 540I Sportwagon (or “Touring”) in Europe.. A 2003
model, the last year of this series known as E39, and the best year. BMW stopped
building station wagons for the next two years as there was little demand for this type of car outside of
Europe. The North
American consumer equated the term “station wagon” with “mini van”, something
for the wife to take the kids to school, and could not understand why anyone
would want to own a superb high performance car like the BMW 540I, with
anything other than the conventional sedan shape and styling. Especially with a
price tag of over $ 60,000 ! Only about
500 cars made it to the US and a few to
Canada, this being one of them. If you are
interested in owning a very special and unique BMW, read on to find out more
about this car, in particular. You probably
know that it powered by a 4.4 litre V8
with 292 HP, enough for comfortable cruising and enough acceleration to
put most Sports cars to shame. The handling is superb and the comfort amazing. Fully
equipped with leather interior, memory seats, heated, with lumbar support, that
lets you drive 800 highway kms in 8 hours and step out feeling fresh. The winter
package has the ski bag pass-thru and heated steering wheel to get you there on
a cold day. Sun/moon
roof, steptronic 5 speed automatic transmission that is shiftable, window
curtains for the back windows, etc. This is a
two owner car and has been in our family for the past 9 years. Imported from
the US, properly documented and registered. Maintained
at the highest level at a BMW dealer, with all service records available. Mileage
just under 96000 miles (152921 km). Owned by Non-smokers. Colour is
Black Safire Metallic outside and tan coloured leather interior. Keys, books,
extra floor mats are all there, as well. Cosmetically,
it has a couple of flaws, as per the pictures. The hood has a small dent from a
flying rubber cone flipped up on the highway, the sides have a couple of dings
from runaway shopping trolleys, (or people who hate Bimmers), and a couple of scratches , a “kiss’” from a
parking garage post. Only reason
for selling is that the grandchildren are getting bigger, and we need an all-wheel drive
vehicle for the upcoming winter. The car has
spent most winters garaged, however it gets tru the snow quite well with snow
tires. We do have a set, mounted on very smart looking
rims, that we will include with the sale, if the buyer wants them.
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Auto blog
Two rare Alpina BMWs given the Petrolicious treatment
Tue, 22 Jan 2013Alpina is getting more and more ink because of because of that rolling cannonade known as the B7 and its closer ties with BMW. The company's tuning business dates to 1962 when Burkard Bovensiepen began fiddling with Weber carburetors, then his company began racing in 1968 and was eventually certified as an automaker in 1983.
Two of its rarer specimens from those early years have gotten a glance from the folks at Petrolicious: the E24 B10 and E24 B7S. Based on the BMW 6 Series, the Alpina versions made one of the most special coupes from the Eighties even more so. According to the video, there were only 44 B10s made, and the turbocharged, 333-horsepower B7S - this was in a luxury coupe in 1982, mind you - saw only 33 examples produced.
You won't be sorry to find out more about them - and see how they run - in the Petrolicious video below.
BMW offers M Performance Power Kit for 2012 335i sedan
Thu, 28 Mar 2013BMW has let loose a new M Performance Power Kit for its F30-generation 335i and 335i xDrive sedans. Starting at $1,100 for the kit - installation is extra - your car will be fitted with a new ECU and air intake on the functional side and an M Performance engine cover and rocker panel stickers on the decorative side. The Power Kit raises the 3.0-liter inline six-cylinder's horsepower rating from 300 to 320, and on automatic models, torque gets a boost from 300 pound-feet to 332 lb-ft - manual transmission models get a smaller bump to 317 lb-ft.
According to the Bavarian automaker, you'll be able to hear the change in the overrun exhaust note, and 0-60 mile-per-hour times drop by 0.2 seconds. The package is available now at all BMW Centers in the US, and if you get it installed when you purchase the car new, it will get the same four-year, 50,000-mile warranty as the vehicle. Have it done after the fact and the kit will be warranted for two years and unlimited miles. There's a press release below with some more details.
2015 BMW Alpina B6 xDrive Gran Coupe priced from $118,225* [w/poll]
Wed, 05 Mar 2014If you're in the market for a high-performance BMW and you live in Europe, you've typically had two range of options at your disposal: you could go for one of BMW's own M models, or turn to Alpina. Though technically independent of BMW, Alpina is about as close to the manufacturer as a tuner can get, and many of its models are offered through BMW's own dealer network.
That's overseas, but in the North American market, BMW has typically taken a different approach, offering just one Alpina model - the B7 - to fill in for a lack of M7 performance sedan. That all changes, however, with the debut of the BMW Alpina B6 xDrive Gran Coupe.
Slotting in alongside the M6 Gran Coupe, the Alpina B6 xDrive Gran Coupe is marginally more expensive and slightly less powerful, but makes up for those relative (and negligible) shortcomings in spades. Both are based on the 6 Series Gran Coupe and both pack a 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8, but with key differences. Where the M6 produces 560 horsepower, the Alpina offers 'only' 540. But where the M6 channels 500 pound-feet of torque to the rear wheels through a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, the Alpina drives 540 lb-ft to all four wheels through an eight-speed automatic.