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Following the debut of latest BMW M3 and M4 in September last year, the German carmaker has now revealed a convertible version of the latter. Officially called the M4 Competition Convertible with M xDrive, production […]
BMW Alpina B8 Gran Coupe priced
BMW Alpina B8 Gran Coupe priced
May 12, 2021
German tuner announces local pricing and specs for its answer to the BMW M8 sedan
Alpina Automobiles Australia has announced local pricing and specs for its new sports flagship, the BMW Alpina B8 Gran Coupe, ahead of its arrival Down Under for the first time in July.
And the good news is the big German sports sedan not only brings a unique design and chassis tune, but is cheaper than the BMW M8 Competition Gran Coupe while offering similar power and more torque.
Priced from $322,900 plus on-road costs, the Alpina B8 Gran Coupe is powered by a 457kW/800Nm 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8 paired with a retuned eight-speed automatic transmission and rear-biased all-wheel drive with limited-slip rear differential.
G07 BMW X7 CKD launched – xDrive40i Design Pure Excellence is RM189k cheaper than CBU at RM648,934
7 May 2021 1:58 pm / 7 comments
Three months after BMW Group Malaysia previewed the CKD locally-assembled G07 BMW X7, the car is finally going on sale today. As with the CBU fully-imported version, the flagship seven-seater SUV is being offered in just a single xDrive40i Design Pure Excellence variant, with some changes in specification.
The price has gone down quite a bit from the original estimate of RM708,800, now at
RM673,324 on-the-road without insurance or sales and service tax (SST). That’s with the five-year, unlimited-mileage warranty and five years of free servicing; with the standard two-year warranty, the X7 retails at
It s hard not to detect a slight note of frustration in Matthew Avery’s voice as he talks us through some of the latest driver-assistance systems on the market – or, rather, some of the messaging that surrounds them. “Today’s technology is not self-driving, whatever manufacturers will tell you. It’s assisted.”
Avery is on the board of Euro NCAP, and director of research at Thatcham Research. The two organisations have been at the forefront of car safety for decades and, as technology has increased in sophistication over the years, so too have Thatcham and NCAP evolved, judging how well the latest sensors and software perform, while also continuing to test traditional safety aspects such as crumple zones and whiplash protection.