{"id":1937324,"date":"2026-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1937324"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:00:00","slug":"this-is-the-vision-bmw-alpina-a-look-into-the-future-of-the-worlds-coolest-car-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1937324","title":{"rendered":"This is the Vision BMW Alpina: a look into the future of the world\u2019s coolest car brand"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the Vision BMW Alpina<\/a>. It is not in any way a production car, and nor will it likely ever be. It is instead a look into the future of the world\u2019s coolest car brand.<\/p>\n

Because Alpinas are just so<\/em> cool. Though, there\u2019s something intangible about why: perhaps it\u2019s their shocking rarity, or the obsessive attention to engineering and design, or the fact that it\u2019s a \u2018if you know you know\u2019 kind of carmaker, or the charisma and talent of its late founder Burkard Bovensiepen<\/a>, or its racing heritage, or simply its delicious alloy wheel offerings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Or perhaps it\u2019s the fact Alpina came of age at a time when BMW design could do no wrong. A time that birthed stone-cold classics like the gorgeous E24 6 Series which Buchloe expertly remastered into the Alpina B7 Coupe.<\/p>\n

And no, we haven\u2019t just picked a random old BMW, we\u2019ve picked the exact one Neue<\/em> Alpina \u2013 now firmly part of the BMW mothership as of January 2026 \u2013 has chosen as the inspiration to lead its charge into the rarefied and profitable world it intends to do battle in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Because Neue<\/em> Alpina will start where the most expensive BMW stops, and end right before you\u2019re thinking \u2018hmm, I could get a brand-new Rolls-Royce<\/a> for that\u2019. Big gap in between BMW and Rolls, and it\u2019ll be filled with this.<\/p>\n

Well, not this<\/em>, as we said, because this car serves a wider role. \u201cIt\u2019s clearly to anchor the brand at the right level in the market where we believe the potential of BMW Alpina sits,\u201d said new boss Oliver Viellechner. \u201cAnother important role for this car is to show all the little details that characterise Alpina, and that is what we will carry forward into the series cars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThose little icons that you recognise as being \u2018Alpina\u2019,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So, let\u2019s get into what BMW now recognises as being \u2018Alpina\u2019. And hoo boy is there a lot of it. This thing\u2019s a monster of a machine: 5.2m long and just 16cm shy of a new BMW 7 Series<\/a> (with which it shares its architecture). It\u2019s wide. Low. Oozes confidence. And takes the E24\u2019s shark-nose and makes it really very sharky. The front is said to \u201creinterpret BMW\u2019s kidney grille as a three-dimensional sculpture\u201d. Watch out, Jaws.<\/em><\/p>\n

From there, there\u2019s a new \u2018speed feature line\u2019 that runs along the side and to the back of the L-shaped lights that visually demonstrates BMW Alpina\u2019s devotion to \u2018Speed, not Sport\u2019. Important to remember this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Such speed will be derestricted \u2013 indeed no production Alpina will ever be limited \u2013 and produced by a \u201crich\u201d V8 combustion engine. That\u2019s the pitch to begin with: Alpina won\u2019t be a \u2018combustion-only\u2019 brand, but it\u2019ll launch with only combustion engines. Big, V8 combustion engines, \u201cwithout a plug\u201d, according to Viellechner.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019ll be delivered in a manner that is uniquely Alpina: in supreme and serene comfort. The default mode in every BMW Alpina will be a new \u2018Comfort+\u2019 setting that goes beyond BMW\u2019s standard comfort calibration, while Sport and Sport+ have been junked in favour of \u2018Speed\u2019 and \u2018Speed+\u2019 modes.<\/p>\n

Because, according to BMW Alpina and original founder Burkard, \u201ca comfortable driver is a faster driver\u201d. BMW Alpina drivers will certainly be treated to much comfort if this Vision car is anything to go by: rich, luxurious details adorn the exquisite cabin with full-grain leather, bespoke stitching, crystal, metal, satin\u2026 you get the gist. Even the glasses in the rear are magnetised so they don’t topple over when you’re flat out on the Autobahn.<\/p>\n

It has to be an outstanding cabin too, according to the new brass. BMW\u2019s upscaling select dealerships and factories to cope with the extensive individualisation that\u2019ll play a huge part of Neue Alpina\u2019s philosophy (a solid moneymaker, just ask Ferrari and Bentley), and as such, there can be no horrid plastic or sub-par material or botched execution. Literally, it\u2019s aiming for 100 per cent.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also mining its heritage in what it calls the \u2018second read\u2019 details: the quad exhaust pipes, the new \u2018Alpina\u2019 wordmark that sits proudly on the front apron just like it should (and will always sit there in production cars), the \u2018deco-lines\u2019 that run along the side, and last but by no means least\u2026 those wheels.<\/p>\n

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\"Vision<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The concept gets whopping 22in front and 23in rears in a 20-spoke design \u201cthat has been a constant at Alpina since 1971\u201d. You\u2019d buy it for this alone. You can\u2019t buy it, of course.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s much more. \u201cChrome for example isn\u2019t in your face, but it\u2019s always in the perpendicular surfaces,\u201d said BMW Alpina design boss Max Missoni. \u201cWhen you go towards the inner structure, there\u2019s more perceived value.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery detail reflects substance,\u201d he added, \u201cin engineering, in materials, and in the story it tells.\u201d<\/p>\n

A story that begins today with this Vision concept and continues in 2027 with the first BMW Alpina that will<\/em> be a production car: \u201cInspired by the BMW 7 Series, but unmistakably BMW Alpina.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the Vision BMW Alpina. It is not in any way a production car, and nor will it likely ever be. It is instead a look into the future of the world\u2019s coolest car brand. Because Alpinas are just so cool. Though, there\u2019s something intangible about why: perhaps it\u2019s their shocking rarity, or the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1937324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}