The urge for that which is better and more special has thankfully not slowed in times of mass production, but has become, accompanied by rising standards of living, an eminently fulfillable desire Exactly this has been the motivation for ALPINA, a small but enterprising automotive manufacturer. To build special automobiles for a small circle of cognoscenti, for people who have a taste for exclusivity and the finer things in life, and who aren’t in need of exhibitionist exterior presentation in their automobile As we place less emphasis on an ALPINA’s exterior differentiation than we do in its inner values, we choose to draw the basis for our automotive work exclusively from BMW: a great marque, and one of the best and most technologically advanced forward