WTF???

They just look so 70's. The graphics really make the car look dated IMO.

Spokey, why make your car look like something it's not?

Isn't that the same as putting an M3 badge on a 318? 

Peter Fenwick wrote: In fact here are some, IMHO, less than tastefull Alpinas: Horroble alloys, horrible front splitter and horrible graphics. The 70s was a tastless decade and these two are just typical.

Philistine! Apostate! Infidel! I declare fatwa upon you!

In fact here are some, IMHO, less than tastefull Alpinas:

 

Horroble alloys, horrible front splitter and horrible graphics.

The 70s was a tastless decade and these two are just typical.

The last one is by far the least bad, but that front bumper looks poo as do the naff gold graphics

I'm sure someone will disagree but then like I said beauty is in the eye of the beholder

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Peter Fenwick wrote: spokey wrote: Here's one that's been tastefully tarted up That's the trouble though, tastefull is in the eye of the beholder.

I've never ever heard someone say that an Alpina wasn't tasteful.

that looks a lot better with the orange indicators the clear at the top didnt suit the car that is my opinion nice looking car though

Why start a new thread -- there's one right here. 

I don't mind people fiddling with their cars (especially if they use Alpina bits!), but those two mods just deface the cars. I've even  considered buying some of the modified cars I've seen on ebay, but I think the problem I have with both of these cars is that they are mixing effects from different generations, the first one looks a lot like an E28 light cluster to me and the second one has grafted an organic shape onto a boxy one -- it just doesn't work.

I've often had doubts about the styling of the Z1, it looks a bit "hairdresser-y" to me. However, that all goes away when I get behind the wheel. Probably just like the owners of both these abominations.

Here's one that's been tastefully tarted up -- I quite like it! And one day, I will buy one. 

No, the bumper works well on the more organically shaped E46,I think. But it looks completely out of place on a boxy E30. I'd have to see it on an E36 to see if it worked on an E36. I suspect it might work better on that than the E30.

Horsetan wrote: Why go to all that trouble to make the back end look like a Renault 9?

THAT'S what I was thinking of...... it looked kinda familiar in a 'I know what it is but can't quite tell' sort of way. Cheers Horsey.

Take a chill pill guys....whoever owns those cars like their mods.. maybe not to your taste but who made you cars style gurus???

spokey wrote: But wait, there's more! Why, dear Lord, why?

"e36 style front bumper worth �700 also have orginal MTECH Bumper" - so that's OK then!

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