2026 has begun, and that means that BMW's ownership of the Alpina brand, announced in 2022, has officially come into effect. In order to understand what to expect, we first need to know how we got ...

Big changes are happening at Alpina. After decades of independence, BMW bought the German tuner in 2022. Then, early last year, the automaker rechristened the division as BMW Alpina and announced that ...

Over three years after BMW first announced the Alpina acquisition, the transition is finally done. Starting in 2026, BMW Alpina will run as its own brand within the BMW Group, much like BMW M, but ...

German tuner Alpina is readying an update for its B3 based on the BMW 3-Series, and a prototype has been spotted. The prototype is for the B3 Touring wagon, and out shots come just weeks after a ...

Alpina is now fully under BMW control and its famous badge has a new look to mark the start of a new era. Like the best Hollywood facelifts, it’s subtle enough that casual observers might miss it, and ...

It took a while for BMW to develop a fully-fledged M version of the X3, but it finally arrived in 2019. The third-generation ...

The Bovensiepen family sold the Alpina brand to BMW after 57 years of operation as an independent manufacturer back in March ...

Alpina Burkard Bovensiepen was born in 1965 as an automotive company rather than as an aftermarket tuner, but it died last year to make way for the new BMW Alpina brand in 2026, which now has a new ...

The BMW Alpina XB7 based on the BMW X7 returns for 2025 in a new Manufaktur guise that adds a number of special touches for the exterior and cabin. On the outside, the big SUV benefits from standard ...

More Problems is the latest chapter in Project Chicago, where the supercharged BMW Alpina B7 faces another round of setbacks ...