Tested: 2021 Alpina XB7 Brings What BMW M Won’t

German tuning house Alpina upgrades BMW’s highest-performing X7 SUV on its own terms.

Traditionalists are quick to give BMW flak for applying its full-bore M treatment to models that don’t adhere to the go-fast formula set by the brand’s most legendary driver’s machines. Vehicles like the twin-turbocharged, all-wheel-drive, automatic-transmission X5 M SUV spring to mind—undeniably good to drive but everything that an E30 M3 is not.

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