Description
This Alpina C2 was found I Denmark this summer with few km on the clock Km 126. 000 !! With 2 Danish owners this BMW Alpina looks almost like new. I drove its first year I Germany, and was imported to Denmark app. 10 years ago, and did only few summer trips in the years.
An interesting variant of the M20 engine was Alpina's C2. The first C2 combined the wider bore of the M20B25 with the slightly larger 76. 8 mm (3. 02 in) crankshaft of an M20B23, to create a torquier engine of 2552 cc. This version put out 185 PS (136 kW) and 265 N·m (195 lb·ft), 74 units were built between 1985 and November 1986. After the C2 2. 7 appeared in the spring of 1986, the 2. 5 was slightly upgraded and gained five horsepower. However, to indicate its "little brother" position in the lineup, the name was changed to C1 2. 5. When the September 1987 facelift model of the E30 was introduced, the 2. 5 litre C1 was discontinued, although a few cars were finished into 1988.
The larger yet 2. 7 litre unit was introduced in February 1986 in uncatalyzed C2/ 1 form. This engine, sharing the dimensions of the M20B27, develops a whopping 210 PS (154 kW) at 5800 rpm and shows what the engine was really capable of. Originally installed in the E30-based Alpina C2 2. 7, with available four-wheel drive, the catalyzed C2/ 2 appeared in the interim C2 2. 7 Kat in March 1987. This was then renamed "B3 2. 7" five months later, by which time the "C2" labelled cars were discontinued. The B3 2. 7 continued to be available until June 1992, in all body variants and drivetrain configurations (excepting automatics) in which the E30 was offered. Around 1988, 26 "B6"-labelled C2-engined E30s were built for export to Japan, where the B6 3. 5 had a hard time passing emissions regulations.
