Here's what I saw today, mark 3 (don't quote pictures, 24h ban!)

Marcinek_55

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Macinek_55, I just seen a picture of this car on UNILAD TECH on facebook. Still has your watermark. It was taking at a slightly side angle not directly in front the way this picture is.

Is that UNILAD TECH something popular? My friend send me link to that too and I don't mind if anyone share my photos as long as there are my credits and I sa they put link to my flickr account in their first post under the photo. Thanks for letting me know anyway. I'd like to know what is going on with my photos after I post them but there is no chance I find everything, everywhere so thank you once again for letting me know. We talking about this photo:

Peugeot Oxia Prototype

There was one more of my photos shared by something like blacklist on instagram and heard they only post best photos they can find in internet and it was this photo:

Ferrari FXXK #52

wotzgoingon

Yes that's the pic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniLad

http://www.unilad.co.uk/

Don't have a link for the facebook pages they have as but they have a few Unilad, Unilad Tech etc...

Marcinek_55

Here is their FB: https://www.facebook.com/UNILADTech/

pajor

Was going through photos on my phone and found this one that I took back in July while on holidays in Germany. Coincidence that it was a Dutch reg (first reg 1985). Now I know it's not the best quality of pictures but that's not a shadow on the back. It had no German emissions sticker. :pac:

shietpilot

A few shots from the Leinster Trophy at Mondello yesterday. I was in a lazy shooting mode from the grand stand :P

beer enigma

tc20

^ rear quarter in the top pic reminds me of a freshened up Lexus LS (Presidential) model.
Here's one of its forebears, E38 (I think) in Blackrock the other day

ba_barabus

If anyone fancies a good bike the window has been left open on this dirty shyte heap :P

Ded_Zebra

I hope you did something annoying like fold in the passenger side mirror

ba_barabus

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

I hope you did something annoying like fold in the passenger side mirror

I'm too nice.

166man

ba_barabus wrote: »

I'm too nice.

What a bucket off sh1t that thing is! The bike was proving the practicality of it, my friend said it couldn't be done!

Highly recommend the pizza in Borza by the way :cool:

Cheensbo

166man wrote: »

The bike was proving the practicality of it,

Handy to have there too, for the inevitable breakdown like

ba_barabus

166man wrote: »

What a bucket off sh1t that thing is! The bike was proving the practicality of it, my friend said it couldn't be done!

Highly recommend the pizza in Borza by the way :cool:

You don't have to tell me about the pizza there. He knows my first name now! It's the best I've had in Dublin, genuinely good.

franer1970

Alpina D3 in West Dublin, seems to be the real deal.
Nothing much to get excited about, but rare enough I understand.

Oral Surgeon

franer1970 wrote: »

Alpina D3 in West Dublin, seems to be the real deal.
Nothing much to get excited about, but rare enough I understand.

http://www.carzone.ie/used-cars/bmw/alpina/used-2007-bmw-alpina-d3-dublin-fpa-4407059487502269724

Make him an offer....

tc20

^ I see one of Marcinek 55's photos is in the carzone ad

franer1970

Oral Surgeon wrote: »

http://www.carzone.ie/used-cars/bmw/alpina/used-2007-bmw-alpina-d3-dublin-fpa-4407059487502269724

Make him an offer....

I ought to be getting something off him for inadvertently drumming up extra interest in it.

tc20 wrote: »

^ I see one of Marcinek 55's photos is in the carzone ad

Slightly better photos than I managed alright.

bear1

Is there anything special apart from the Alpina decals that makes that 320d more special than a normal 320d?

Quazzie

bear1 wrote: »

Is there anything special apart from the Alpina decals that makes that 320d more special than a normal 320d?

Yea. It's basically a whole new car. Different brakes turbo suspension etc etc.

197bhp compared to the standard 150bhp

EndaHonesty

bear1 wrote: »

Is there anything special apart from the Alpina decals that makes that 320d more special than a normal 320d?

Good review here which explains the differences...

http://www.evo.co.uk/bmw/alpina/6430/bmw-alpina-d3

bear1

Ok I'm impressed then.
I wonder would it suffer from the swirl flaps issue also or would it be a reworked engine?

EndaHonesty

bear1 wrote: »

Ok I'm impressed then.
I wonder would it suffer from the swirl flaps issue also or would it be a reworked engine?

I don't know about the swirl flaps but the Alpina engineers are supposed to be brilliant so it wouldn't surprise me if they had improved on that issue.

bennyx_o

bear1 wrote: »

I wonder would it suffer from the swirl flaps issue also or would it be a reworked engine?

Mentions in the Evo article that the engine is untouched

davidglanza

CianDon wrote: »

You work all week full tilt and then as a means of relaxing you set an alarm for 3.15AM to drive nearly 3 hours to stand up the top of a mountain. It's just a car guy kinda thing to do. But when the company you have lined up is as special as this morning, its almost a pleasure to do the crazy times and lonely drives.

love the 3 door cossie..

EndaHonesty

bennyx_o wrote: »

Mentions in the Evo article that the engine is untouched

It mentions in the Evo article that the engine internals are untouched but also mentions a larger Garrett turbocharger and intercooler,
bigger injectors and reprogrammed engine management so several parts have been changed.

It's not inconceivable that the Alpina engineers made changes to address the issue.

selectamatic

An 07 320d are 177bhp from factory prior to 07 they were 163bhp.
Face-lift e46 320d were 150bhp
Then the next model was 197bhp.
I suppose alpina had to keep all the auxiliaries in a fairly detuned overly safe state hence the modest gain in bhp a standard 320d with a remap can easily surpass 197bhp and stay reliable but then the alpina would have a higher tuning ceiling factoring in the bigger injectors and turbo.
Either way it's a lot of money for a non cheap tax diesel! a 335d would be massively better.

EndaHonesty

selectamatic wrote: »

An 07 320d are 177bhp from factory prior to 07 they were 163bhp.
Face-lift e46 320d were 150bhp
Then the next model was 197bhp.
I suppose alpina had to keep all the auxiliaries in a fairly detuned overly safe state hence the modest gain in bhp a standard 320d with a remap can easily surpass 197bhp and stay reliable but then the alpina would have a higher tuning ceiling factoring in the bigger injectors and turbo.
Either way it's a lot of money for a non cheap tax diesel! a 335d would be massively better.

By all accounts Alpina don't try to create the most powerful car they can, they try and improve the car to their standards.

The work their magic on the suspension and don't use run flats to make the best handling and riding car they can.

They finesse steering weights and offer nicer surfaces for the steering wheel and gear knob to improve the feel of the cars.

For a long time they didn't offer the cars with automatic gearboxes and iDrive as they wanted to keep the driving experience simpler.

An Alpina would be in my opinion a much better car than any standard BMW.

Skylinehead

No pics because I was driving (timely reminder to get a dashcam) but yesterday, I saw a black R35 (lives around the area I think) overtake a yellow reg white R35 on the N3 at Blanch. Heaven

ironclaw

Not my pic directly but taken this weekend I believe: McLaren 688 HS, Ascot (UK)

Shannon757

ironclaw wrote: »

Not my pic directly but taken this weekend I believe: McLaren MSO HS, Ascot (UK)

A 688 HS, delivered this weekend.