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Old 10-10-2014, 07:26 PM
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Thank you for the detailed explanation. What auction house did it first sell at?
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I don't remember...JAA something.

Hey, I wasn't far off the selling price for once. It sold for 615,000 JPY this time.
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Still seems like a bit of a bargain given recent prices though. Must not show well.
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Manual 3.0....I'd prefer the blue interior over the red...









*Edit: Maybe it's a purple/violet interior. I don't see any other cars listed with a red alcantara (or however you spell it) interior.

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The variety in the interiors on these cars is really interesting. The door cards and steering wheel and seats and center consoles really varied car to car and year to year. Somewhere in the high 2xx build #s for the 3.0s they built a bunch of cars like this one above that had generic wood trim above the glove box instead of the numbered plaque, and some serious questionable interior fabric choices. They must have run out of Alpina cloth for a while.

I'm also surprised at how few of these cars have the Alpina gauge cluster with the extra gauges. I thought that was part of the Alpina special sauce but based on recent auctions less cars had it than I expected.

I'm quite happy with how mine was speced but I'd love to have the earlier Recaro seats instead.
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I believe interiors like that were usually custom ordered by the original owners. Like the Individual program, Alpina would do any color you wanted. Case in point the E31 B12 in Techno Violet and Techno Violet...
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I believe interiors like that were usually custom ordered by the original owners. Like the Individual program, Alpina would do any color you wanted. Case in point the E31 B12 in Techno Violet and Techno Violet...
Oh I agree they offered that. But for this range of E36s they must have offered it as standard. If you click through the Alpina Archive it's hundreds of cars with mostly Alpina cloth and some leather, then all of a sudden every single car has purple, blue or seafoam green Alcantara. Then it switches back to clotch / leather for the final several cars. I've always found that strange.


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I noticed that as well. It seems the ones they offered as "30th anniversary Editions" had the coloured interior like that. I prefer the "normal" Alpina cloth myself.

Well that Technoviolet B3 sure wasn't cheap. Sold for over 900k JPY. I had a bid in around 600k, but obviously that wasn't even close LOL!
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Well one thing I learned was in the 90's BMW offered the full range of the European Individual Program in North America and soon many cars were ordered with ridiculous color schemes. BMW NA eventually turfred it because people were ordering ridiculous colors as a lease or not taking delivery of them. I had heard color schemes like this was semi common in Europe for a period, so it must have been a fad for a few years.
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New to forum... So, newb question but how rare is the 4.6 sedan?

There seem to be quite a lot of E36 Alpinas at auction at Japan. I'd love to scoop up one of these, preferably a manual 3.2 or 4.6.
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