BMW ALPINA is the modern BMW Group brand that began with the transfer of the ALPINA trademark rights on January 1, 2026. It represents the continuation of a long partnership between BMW and ALPINA Burkard Bovensiepen, the Buchloe-based specialist that spent decades building low-volume, BMW-based performance cars with a strong emphasis on refinement, individuality, and grand touring character. For most of its history, ALPINA was not a BMW in-house model line but an independent manufacturer that modified BMW sedans, wagons, coupés, and SUVs into distinctive ALPINA automobiles with their own chassis tuning, interiors, and engine development. Under BMW ownership, the name moved into a new chapter as an exclusive brand within the BMW Group rather than a traditional standalone model series. The nameplate therefore carries unusual historical weight: it is both newly official under BMW and deeply rooted in half a century of BMW-based enthusiast heritage.
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