A Gentleman’s 186-mph Express: Everything We Know About BMW Alpina
Key takeaways
- BMW Alpina’s future cars will be for connoisseurs who love driving fast, but not in a car that looks like a race car.
- The concept itself was built upon a BMW 8 Series coupe platform with a V-8 under its hood, presumably a version of BMW’s stout 4.4-liter twin-turbo V-8 that was available across the 8 Series range.
- Both designers also said some of the Alpina character would be implemented via software tuning.
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BMW Alpina’s future cars will be for connoisseurs who love driving fast, but not in a car that looks like a race car.
During the luxurious launch of the Vision BMW Alpina this past weekend at Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este on the shores of Lake Como, Italy, we had the chance to sit down with BMW Group head of design, Adrian van Hooydonk, along with BMW Alpina head of design, Maximilian Missoni, to learn all about the shark-nosed concept and what’s to come for the iconic, now in-house sport/luxury brand.
The concept itself was built upon a BMW 8 Series coupe platform with a V-8 under its hood, presumably a version of BMW’s stout 4.4-liter twin-turbo V-8 that was available across the 8 Series range. (BMW ended production of the 8 Series in April of 2026 and so far, no successor has been named.) As for the coming BMW Alpina production models, Van Hooydonk did confirm that V-8 engines would power them at the outset.