An Alpina XD5 would serve as a suitable foil to the new BMW X5 M50d and big brother to the XD3/XD4 ... Alpina XD5 Based On New 2019 BMW X5 Would Be One Heck Of An Autobahn Stormer.

Alpina started life as a typewriter manufacturer, but turned its focus toward automobiles when the company’s founder Burkard Bovensiepen started producing tuning parts for BMW in the early 1960s.

The new XB7 -- Alpina's take on BMW's wildly popular X7 SUV -- marks a first for the boutique automaker. Alpina engineers spent weeks training a small team of top technicians how to replicate the ...

It's taken nearly 60 years, but Alpina is finally going to be an official part of BMW.The brand started out in 1965 producing go-fast parts for BMWs and later tuning models, eventually becoming a ...

Small but highly respected German tuner Alpina has long built its own versions of BMWs. Now the firm is being absorbed into the BMW corporate universe after 57 years of an arm's-length partnership.

BMW announced it would purchase the rights to the Alpina brand in 2022. The existing deal between the two companies, which allows Alpina to develop, build and sell vehicles based on BMWs, is set ...

2020 BMW Alpina XB7 | Manufacturer image. Competes with: Mercedes-AMG GLS63, Mercedes-AMG G63, BMW X7 M50i Looks like: A really fast tiny house Powertrain: Twin-turbocharged 4.4-liter V-8 ...

Later, Alpina led development of the BMW 3.0CSL, a lightweight version of the E9 coupe. The establishment of Alpina predated the 1972 creation of BMW's in-house M division.

Alpina started life as a typewriter manufacturer, but turned its focus toward automobiles when the company’s founder Burkard Bovensiepen started producing tuning parts for BMW in the early 1960s.