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Alpina

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Alpina is a brand that makes special, high‑quality parts for cars, especially wheels. They’re known for good performance and style.

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Alpina is a German luxury and performance brand that modifies BMWs, producing high‑quality wheels among other components.

About Alpina

Alpina is a high-end luxury automobile brand by BMW. Alpina originally started as an automobile manufacturing company named Alpina Burkard Bovensiepen, based in Buchloe, in the Ostallgäu district of Bavaria, Germany that develops and sells high-performance versions of BMW cars. The company was officially renamed BMW Alpina in 2025.

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