{"id":500513,"date":"2010-04-01T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/01\/2011-bmw-alpina-b7-xdrive-new-york-2010-unveiled\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T18:12:00","slug":"new-york-2010-2011-bmw-alpina-b7-xdrive-is-deeply-impressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/500513","title":{"rendered":"New York 2010: 2011 BMW Alpina B7 xDrive is deeply impressive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Aftermarket<\/a>, New York Auto Show<\/a>, Sedan<\/a>, Performance<\/a>, BMW<\/a>, Luxury<\/a><\/p>\n

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2011 BMW Alpina B7 xDrive – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

\nWe dig super sedans<\/a>. You get 94 percent of the performance of a sports car (or there abouts) plus<\/em> the ability to take a few friends along for the hair-raising ride. Also, cops don’t seem to scrutinize big snazzy sleepers as much as they do bright yellow scissor-doored whatchamacall’em-ardos. It should come as no shock then that when we first heard about the new Alpina B7<\/a>, we were pretty excited. When we then subsequently learned that an all-wheel drive version<\/a> of BMW’s sportiest big sedan was coming to the New York Auto Show<\/a>, well, our excitement grew.<\/p>\n

Then we saw the car in the flesh.<\/p>\n

Let’s just say we’re now triple excited. A few pertinent stats, if we may. The 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8 found in a host of BMWs has been significantly improved to 500 horsepower (up by 100 hp over stock) and 516 pound-feet of torque (up by 66 pound-feet). The B7 is also more aerodynamic than your garden variety 7 Series, comes with zillion-spoke wheels (fine, twenty) and can hit 60 mph in 4.5 seconds. With the Alpina B7 xDrive, you can now toss AWD into that already frothy mix.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But the above stats aren’t the crazy parts. It’s the details that impress the most. For example, all four of the heavy-duty half shafts come out of the 7 Series High Security<\/a>. The 60 to 0 mph braking distance is identical to a Porsche Turbo. That last bit is not an April Fools’ joke, although it’s somewhat mitigated by Alpina’s saying, “that’s cold braking distance.” While not a stat per say, the AWD system is mechanically identical to other BMW xDrive systems, though Alpina has written their own software system, presumably for the better. <\/p>\n

One last thing that’s actually a little to complicated to explain: take a look at the center of the B7’s wheel. You’ll see that once you’ve slid the heraldry over, there’s a keyhole. Now, if you zoom out, you’ll notice no valve stems anywhere on the wheel. In other words, your tire pressure’s locked in and can be adjusted to the tenth of a PSI. Pretty cool, no? <\/p>\n

High res gallery below, official press release after the jump.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: New York 2010: Alpina B7 xDrive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nPhotos by Drew Phillips<\/a> \/ Copyright (C)2010 Weblogs, Inc.
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Filed under: Aftermarket, New York Auto Show, Sedan, Performance, BMW, Luxury 2011 BMW Alpina B7 xDrive – Click above for high-res image gallery We dig super sedans. You get 94 percent of the performance of a sports car (or there abouts) plus the ability to take a few friends along for the hair-raising ride. Also, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}