You can always rely on BMW to bring a stunner to Lake Como in mid-May, and that’s no different for 2026: this is the Vision Alpina, a preview of what to expect as the new (old) brand embarks on its ...

You can tell a lot from a concept car. No, these flights of automaker fancy — divorced as they are from factors so tedious as road safety, regulations, and "can we actually afford to build this?" — ...

After 60 years of independence, the Alpina brand has been brought fully under BMW's control, with the aim to fill in the gap between BMW and Rolls-Royce, and make the nameplate and the models it's ...

Alpina was just spun off as a separate BMW brand, but it has a long history of luxury and performance that stretches back to the 1960s, when it began modifying and racing production BMWs. Its first ...

For more than half a century, Alpina was an aftermarket brand that specialized in turning existing BMWs into grand tourers. That all changed when BMW acquired the company in 2022, bringing the entity ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

The Vision BMW Alpina concept points to the future of the tuning firm turned BMW subbrand. Alpina was previously a BMW tuner founded in 1965, but now BMW has brought Alpina in-house. The first BMW ...

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’s coolest car brand. Because Alpinas are just so ...

BMW just gave us a much better idea of what we can expect from Alpina. The German luxury marque unveiled a new concept called the Vision BMW Alpina on Friday at the 2026 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa ...

Good news for enthusiasts of inexplicably rare-groove carmakers: the first model to emerge from the newly built stable of BMW Alpina will be a big, expensive, ultra-luxury four-door limousine. The ...

Vik is the Co-Founder and former Editor at MotorAuthority, a leading U.S. website covering performance and luxury cars. Since 2025, he has contributed to CarBuzz, blending his engineering background ...

We've all had our guesses as to what a BMW Alpina might be; we'll have a better idea this Friday Can’t be an easy task, reinventing Alpina. That’s the job BMW has ahead, having taken over the naming ...