In the car world, it’s not very hard to have your cake and eat it, too. Of all the largest luxury SUVs on the market, none exemplifies that as well as the Alpina XB7.
Alpina is BMW’s resident zhusher-upper. Starting with the BMW X7 as a platform, Alpina massages the three-row SUV until it’s even more luxurious and even more powerful. Its 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8 makes 612 horsepower and 590 lb-ft of torque, yet it still rides better than most vehicles, even with some honkin’ wheels and thin tires. Slap it into Sport mode, and the XB7 will do a better impression of a sports car than some actual sports cars. It’s a hard act to top, truly

