Continent-crushing Alpina D5 S for sale

Continent-crushing Alpina D5 S for sale

Alpina as we knew it is long gone. The oil-burning D5 S is a fabulous reminder of what made it great.

When we talk about last-of-the-line cars to buy and wrap in cotton wool, it’s typically something low in weight and high in fuel consumption, powered by the kind of atmospheric petrol engine soon to be strangled into extinction by whatever the next round of emission legislation looks like.

In other words, they don’t look like a mid-sized saloon car with a 3.0-litre diesel engine. These, after all, are not currently in short supply. Unless they were made by Alpina, of course.

Buchloe’s production numbers tend to make special edition Ferraris look mass-produced at the best of times, but this particular D5 S is an LCI (Life Cycle Impulse, or 'facelift' to everyone else) model from 2023, meaning that when the vendor talks of ‘a few’ making it to the UK, it really can be taken at face value.

Alpina as we knew it is long gone.

Author's summary: Alpina D5 S is a rare car for sale.

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