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The BMW Group has announced it has acquired the rights to Alpina. Which means one of the coolest tuners on Planet Earth will officially become part of BMW. Of course, Alpina and BMW have worked.

Want more Top Gear? Visit the official Top Gear channel: http://bit.ly/TopGearWWTop GearWhether you're searching for a caravan challenge, Ken Block in the Ho. So Top Gear recently made a quick pocket guide that gives you a brief history lesson on ALPINA as a company. Burkard Bovensiepen was a member of his massive industrialist family.

We hit the track in the BMW Alpina XB7, an absolutely outrageous 650. Road Test: BMW Alpina B3 GT3 3.0 Bi Turbo 2dr Switch. As BMW's "Alter Ego" (as Top Gear calls it), ALPINA makes some of the coolest and exciting BMWs on the planet.

In fact, there are multiple ALPINA products I'd personally choose over their BMW M Division counterparts. Alpina creates factory performance cars by tuning BMW's stock cars. Alpina's cars are usually sleepers, meaning they look pretty much stock, aside from some wheels, brakes and a few aero touches.

Mostly go, not so much show. Their latest creation is the Alpina B3. The B3 is based on the most recent 3 series, the F30.

This new photo gallery from Top Gear is an ALPINA fan's dream. In it, you get to see some incredible cars, even some that are extremely rare. For instance, there's a fantastic ALPINA BMW Z1, a.

But now? BMW's finally moved away from high revving, naturally aspirated engines, manual transmissions and rear-wheel-drive, and poor old Alpina has been displaced. Top Gear recently drove the ALPINA B5 and found that it's a very dangerous competitor to the BMW M5. Even though they aren't really competitors, more like cousins.

But a good familial rivalry.