It's that little switch in your head, that feeling in your right boot that starts with a sneaky rev match and ends either two fields away from the main road, with the sentence 'have you any idea how fascht ye were goin' or you walking away from your stinking, pinging dirty car on your driveway thinking... wow.
So here it is. This is it. Personified - The Hurt Valve.
And it's just just any oul hurt valve, this beauty is from the Alpina B7, a turbocharged piece of lunacy built between 1984 and 1988 on the basis of BMW's 635i. Already producing 218hp ex-works, Alpina added their own turbo to it and were pushing 270km/h, 330hp and 512nm (at 3000rpm).
On launch it was the fastest German production car ever built.
As there were only about 100 made, you'd have to be fairly fluid then as now to be able to set your Ladedruck to 1.8bar and be King of the Autobahn but that doesn't stop us from imagining what it would have been like to have lorded it along the left lane like Heroes...
...just for one day.
For more, go here and click on the picture of the Alpina:
http://www.motor-klassik.de/fahrberichte/bmw-alpina-b7-turbo-deutschlands-staerkstes-auto-1103532.html
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