From the get-go, it’s possible you’ll uncover that the Alpina B7 wouldn’t drive like an M vehicle – it’s a lot higher. It floats over bumps in its comfort setting and nonetheless navigates them flawlessly in Sport mode. Alpina has fitted its private bespoke two-axle air suspension system and Dynamic Damper Administration, which is self-leveling and creates a near-perfect journey. Nonetheless everytime you want to get a lick on, the suspension tightens as a lot as in the reduction of physique roll and rear-axle steering helps the car get spherical tight corners.
There’s no getting spherical the reality that it’s a large vehicle nevertheless Alpina has managed to go looking out the right steadiness between a supple limousine and a once more road barnstormer. Your thoughts will battle to absorb the sensations of comfort and velocity being blended inside the B7. When using launch administration, as an illustration, your head will seemingly be pinned once more under the whole brunt of the twin-turbo V8. Nonetheless in distinction to an M vehicle, which is able to seemingly be fitted with a stiff leather-based chair, the B7′s seats are gentle and have a pillow on the headrest. So when the car does throw you once more into the seat, it seems like your physique is being delicately shoved proper right into a marshmallow.
If we had just one criticism with the B7 driving experience, it’d Alpina’s odd shifter buttons on the steering wheel. As a substitute of standard wheel-mounted paddles, Alpina opts for small buttons behind the 9 o’clock and three o’clock positions. Nonetheless since that’s an govt luxurious limousine and the transmission works merely large when left in computerized mode, we’ll give Alpina a free go on this pretend pas.
