MY NEW M5 REPLICA - E60!!!
08-10-2007, 09:19 AM
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My Ride: 2005 BMW-Alpina B5 Touring #007, Malachite Green w/ Caramel Individual interior
1999 BMW 840Ci Sport Individual, Techno Violet w/ Champagne Individual interior
Originally Posted by kalifornian' post='456741' date='Aug 8 2007, 11:10 PM
I think you are misinterpreting what the "M" badge stands for. BMW reserves this badge for performance tuned automobiles produced by their Motorsport division. The "M" badge was not meant to designate a specific item such as a rear deck spoiler or a body kit. Putting an "M" badge on a non-motorsport produced vehicle is like putting a Gucci label on a cheap replica.
(i) The "M" logo, on its own, crops up on all manner of non M-car products (look at the steering wheel on an M-Sport E60) and has done for 20 years. It's the "M1 / M3 / M5 / M6 / M Coupe / M Roadster" brand which denotes the special cars
(ii) Personally I find it annoying that Alpina will sell the ALPINA lettering and bodykits to anyone, though it's heartwarming that they don't sell the model badges (e.g. the "B5" letters) to non-Alpina owners
(iii) M-cars are no longer built by the Motorsport division itself. Rather, they are designed and engineered at Garching, and built on the normal lines alongside the regular cars. Incidentally, so are Alpinas these days (it's technically no longer a tuner but instead a vehicle manufacturer (since 1983) which has recently outsourced final assembly of its product to BMW)
(iv) Putting the model badge of any "higher" model onto a "lower" model is just a bit sad, don't you think? The other way round, on the other hand, can be cool. My personal favourite is the guy who took the bodykit and alloys off his E36 Alpina B8 4.6 Touring and put a 318i badge on the back...
thats hillarious
08-11-2007, 08:31 AM
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