REVIEW: The B5 GT is a monument to everything Alpina does best on paper – how does it stack up in reality? We find out
The chassis has also been honed to give the B5 GT a little more edge, but with care taken, says Alpina, to preserve its absorptive qualities. To this end, the spring and damper rates are unchanged , but the GT gets new bumpstops that improve body control but only do so in demanding circumstances.
Ride height has been dropped a touch at the back and the torque-split is more rear-biased. In theory, the result is a car subtly more willing to rotate through bends, and while you would be hard pressed to feel the difference even with back-to-back testing, at Zandvoort the B5 GT is playful but without ever being a handful.
Helping you along in matters of traction and, if you like, oversteer is the B5 GT’s limited-slip differential. As with the regular B5, it's a purely mechanical, plated affair from motorsport experts Drexler, and is arguably more transparent than the electronically controlled differential found in the an M5, at least during breakaway.
Equally, carry too much speed and this 1980kg saloon bleeds gently into understeer more readily than an equivalent M car would, so with the B5 GT’s monstrous speed also comes a fundamental benignness and stability. On the road, it will be easy to drive fast. A run down a less-than-beautifully surfaced access track also gave us no concerns about plushness. As for how you identify a B5 GT, the gold-bronze wheels are the big giveaway.
The overall effect is subtle, and the B5 GT is no M5 CS-style extravaganza. However, it’s an appropriate finale for what will go down as one of the great super-saloons.
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