Alpina B12 Coupe 5.7 specs

In the 90 this must have been a real dream car!

Looks good and is very fast, even for todays standards.

lol For someone German, id say ur Engrish is prett good!

LOL BumRush

not bad.. i guess to read my shitty english is as painfull as reading your deutsch :)

Herr Georg, ich spreche viele Sprachen, gibt es keine Sprache habe ich nicht gelernt, na ja, vielleicht die Sprache ******* Lol Aber ich bin auch bekannt als der Übersetzer! lol

Ps, dieses Auto sieht aus wie Scheiße Lol

1992 SHIFT-TRONIC With the advent of the BMW ALPINA B12 5,7 Coupé, ALPINA is the first automobile manufacturer to realise an electronic clutch management system termed ALPINA SHIFT-TRONIC. Foregoing use of the clutch is a breeze in light of the six-speed gearbox' dynamic driving characteristics

-Sportomatic?

Very good info,didn't know that. Thanks.

@BumRush
perfect germenglish :)

Why Dont You People, thats alle von uns auf dieser sitzen, sprechen Englisch, damit wir uns verstehen kann, Cause You Know, Everybody Englisch versteht lol

As soon as I brush up on my German I'll know exactly what that means.
Vielen Dank!

@ LJUTICA
you refer to Alpina "Switch Tronic" the B12 5.7 Coupe was optional fitted with the Alpina "Shift Tronic"
it was build onto the standart 6speed Getrag gearbox and was developt together with LUK.
It was a electro hydraulic clutch controll system build onto a standart stick shift gear box!!!!

1992 SHIFT-TRONIC With the advent of the BMW ALPINA B12 5,7 Coupé, ALPINA is the first automobile manufacturer to realise an electronic clutch management system termed ALPINA SHIFT-TRONIC. Foregoing use of the clutch is a breeze in light of the six-speed gearbox' dynamic driving characteristics

thats how it was integrated to the GETRAG gear box..

http://www.xs4all.nl/~alsoft/850%20alpina/album_pic6.jpg

About these transmissions,
yes B12 5.7 had 6-speed manual,BUT that Shift-Tronic is just auto 'box with Tiptronic mode.
It has been ZF 5HP30 5-speed auto with AGS (Adaptive Getriebesteuerung) made just slightly different for Alpina requirements by Zahnraeder Freiedrichsafen (ZF).
It has been referred to as "electro-hydraulic" for it had not only mechanical (hydraulic) valve actuators in gearbox,but these were electrohydraulic which made whole AGS system possible.
BTW,in (extr. rare) case of failure of AGS,it would work completely as a "normal" auto gearbox.

Georg

I believe you're wrong,6.0 litre V12 was reserved for E38 (7-series only). I don't think Alpina ever built E31 6.0,if they did,there'd be some evidence,either on Alpina's site or on the internet in general.
I did some research and found out the same as I thought:
http://www.e31.net/models.html

or

http://www.alpina-archive.com/?page_id=6

or

http://www.alpina-automobiles.com/en/models-alpina/model-history/bmw-8-series/e31.html

The only 6.0l engine that originated in 8-series was S70/1 engine meant for BMW M8 prototype,the car never got to the streets. It had 550ps.
The latter versions of that engine have been used in McLaren F1,the S70/2 and S70/3 versions.

Omg whatever already...

Alpina writes 306kw.
http://www.alpina-automobiles.com/ww/models-alpina/modell-historie/bmw-8er/e31.html

Yaspaa! German sources write 306kw. Since it's a German car we should ignore Anglo-Saxon sources (they are ALWAYS mixing PS and HP).

Read what Alpina claims about the Alpina B12 5.7 Coupe... 306kW and 416PS...5.8s

http://www.alpina-automobiles.com/ww/models-alpina/modell-historie/bmw-8er/e31.html

and now STOP claiming WRONG facts...

You would still lose some acceleration and it's deffo 416 hp ;)

yes...

Is that what they called the shift-tronic?

Yaspaa no you are incorrect...the poweroutput is 306kW and there was NO automatic version avaible... there was a 6sped manual and a 6speed electro hydraulic operated transmission... the electro hydraulic system was mounted on a standart 6speed manual gear box...

It is absolutely gorgeous. Better looking than some Ferraris and Lambos.

Wouldnt exactly say beautiful......

Anonymous you knucklehead this is a beautiful car, if you don't get that your obviously 12 or something.

While we are at it the 850 CSI has always done 0-62 in 6.0 flat.

because they were loaded with every possible luxury gimick

why is so bloody heavy?

Ljutica

thats incorrect the most powerfull version was the Alpina B12 6.0 Coupe, with 430PS and 600Nm... it was even build nearly two times more than this 5.7l 416Ps version

This car needed to be added,it's the most powerful (serial) version of state-of-the-art 8 series BMW.
And of course, it's super rare and expensive.

And once again insane Yaspaa what for you added this old crap. Probably you want to improve your stas Am I right? You behave like a stupid kid by the way how many lap times do you have for this BMW?

Love this baby!