Alpina's boisterous diesel engine is back in sleeker format. Find out what we think of the new D4 S Gran Coupe 👇
not so long ago. It returns this month with two noteworthy alterations. One, the grille has been tastefully optioned in understated black; two, the 3.0-litre straight-six petrol motor has been swapped out for the rumbly charms of BMW’s equivalent oil burner. The new D4 S is slower, heavier, and, given the societal noose slowly tightening around the neck of diesel engines generally, certainly the less popular option.
Fickle legislation and public opinion might have steered righteously away from diesel, yet the D4 S’s voracious 3.0-litre unit provides ample opportunity to marvel at its fall from favour. Granted, it’s not new - this is the same breathed-on B57 motor that - and its output is unchanged. But it does its thing so splendidly that you forgive its broadly familiar, big-chested chug.
Granted, there’s no crisp satisfaction to be had from flicking through the gears like there is in the B4 - but there’s no suspicion of abrasiveness at low speed, either, or the lingering impression that Alpina has been forced to gently muzzle the M3’s ferocious six-pot in the pursuit of better refinement.
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