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Visit to Alpina, BMW M and Ruf
Summer of 1998
The
visit to Bavaria
Notice
that this trip was during the summer of 1998. Some information could
be old.
The location of Alpina, Ruf and BMW M where all in the southern region
of Germany, Bavaria (Bayern in German). As I come from Sweden it was
a trip from Scandinavia in Northern Europe to meet my friend Stefan
in the beautiful town Lindau besides the Lake of Constance located
near the Austrian border. There we went with his BMW Alpina B10 BiTurbo
to have a look at his other "toy", bright red Ferrari F355
Berlinetta with black leather interiour. This wasn't the F1 model,
it had usual 6 speed transmission.
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Stefan
demonstrated the "tunnel effect". You do it like this;
First, get a Ferrari, second, drive it through a Autobahn tunnel
with the engine running about 5000 rpm, then accelerate all the way out
of the tunnel to the redline at around 8500 rpm. The "music" generated
through the tunnel is an unbelievable sound! You must try it! It's like
standing beside of a
Boeing 747 on
the runway with full throttle on the Jet engines! After the Autobahn it
was my turn to try it out and I say honest, it's a better car than both
the B10 BiTurbo
and M5
together. I went through the idyllic landscape on
winding roads. I was doing about 130 km/h on a 80 km/h way when we approached
a little village with 60 km/h limit. By the time I passed the 60 km/h
sign we noticed a van parked near the road and a bright flash from within
the van. We got "blitzed" by the German Police! So we went to the local
Police Office and asked what would happen. It costed me 100 DM, but it
was well worth it!
Anyway, after the Ferrari F355
test-drive we went with the B10 BiTurbo to Buchloe,
the little town where Alpina is situated. It was about 160 km and we went
about 200 km/h all the time with the BiTurbo, accelerating away from some
Mercedes E 320 and tuned up Audi's on the way. We "only" went 260 km/h
due the traffic on the Autobahn. But what a acceleration the BiTurbo have
over 200 km/h. It's incredible, you are literally pushed to the water
buffalo Recaro seats. Nice feeling! |
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I´m
sorry to say that we only (?) went 260 km/h with the BiTurbo
due
the heavy traffic on Autobahn. But we were never overtaken and that´s
the way it should be!
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This
BiTurbo was one of the last produced, distinguished by another type
of rear spoiler, other rear-view mirrors and wider kidneys in front.
It was painted in the Alpina Blue colour.
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