I’m going to be late with the D3’s first service. Right now it’s just three miles short of the big 10K and, instead of sitting in the bays of UK Alpina importer Sytner in Nottingham ...

The D3 is a shrewdly calculated attempt to capture a substantially larger audience for Alpina, precision-targeted with a £26,995 price-tag, and offering just enough of the well-known Alpina brand ...

They’re based around BMW’s core model range; this D3 Bi-Turbo is Alpina’s 3 Series (seems obvious? It’s not always so with its other cars…). D3 signifies diesel rather than the B3 petrol ...

To the well-trained eye however, this is no BMW at all. That’s because someone has managed to get their 2009 Alpina D3 BiTurbo through U.S. customs, and are now selling the right-hand-drive ...