Despite being separate companies, BMW and Alpina have long since had the sort of ultra-close friendship that enables them to finish each other’s sentences. Alpina has been tuning Beemers since the 1970s, and the relationship is now so close that it gets to see future product well ahead of its introduction. And even, in the case of the new G20-generation B3, launch its version before BMW’s own M Division gets its variant to market.
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