The new Alpina B5 Touring is close by, we tell you what we know about him

Alpina B5 Touring 2017 - foto espía

Photo spy of the new Alpina B5 Touring during a test session at the Nürburgring.

a few weeks Ago we did echo of the first spy photos of the new Alpina B5 Touring. Its development has already been started and with the arrival of the new generation of the BMW 5-Series and, therefore, of your body family (Touring), will also come to market with a new version under the roller of Alpine. It is a model that comes to occupy the position that would have a hypothetical BMW M5 Touring.

In these new spy pictures of the Alpina B5 Touring, as mentioned above, our photographers have managed to get the hang of it in full test session at the circuit of Nürburgring. Development press the accelerator and is that the new generation of the 5 Series is now in its final stage and in few months it will be ready for its debut at the Detroit Auto show 2017.

Although by the time the unit that we have photographed has not lost anything of camouflage to date, we can anticipate the aesthetic modifications that will have the new Alpina B5 Touring 2017 with regard to the model of the part, the 5-Series Touring. The changes obviously come from the hand of a body kit. A kit in which you’ll find items such as a new spoiler or front bumper, rear.

Alpina B5 Touring 2017 - foto espía

Under its hood, the new Alpina B5 Touring will in all probability a V8 4.4 BiTurbo engine with around 600 HP.

Other new features that will make the image of the new Alpina B5 Touring are the four exhaust outlets, the changes in the group of optical as well as new tires which will leave the vista high-performance brakes with which to stop this model of family line, but with soul sports.

¿What we know of (mechanical the Alpina B5 Touring 2017? All the information we have available point in the same direction. Under its bonnet we find a V8 engine of 4.4-liter BiTurbo revised to pay around 600 HP and 800 Nm of maximum torque. An engine that will be associated with a gearbox eight-speed automatic that also would be adapted for the occasion.

incidentally, as is currently the case, there will also be a new Alpina B5 body type saloon. If well, the truth is that the most interesting option that offers us Alpine is the here, as for the B5, the vast majority of buyers end up opting for your own BMW M5. And since we mentioned the new M5, I recommend that you take a look at these other spy photos of the BMW M5 2017 in which we will reveal exclusive new details of the alternative more radical that will be available in the range of the BMW Series 5.

Alpina B5 Touring 2017 - foto espía

The camouflage is still present in the greater part of the exterior of the Alpina B5 Touring 2017.

¿When it will be
presented?
The staging of the new Alpina B5 Touring will be linked to
the BMW M5 2017. The guys from Alpina would have marked some date in the
second half of next year for submission.