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Alpina Burkard Bovensiepen GmbH & Co. KG is an automobile manufacturing company based in Buchloe, in the Ostallgäu district of Bavaria, Germany selling their own cars, based on BMW cars.
Alpina works closely with BMW and their processes are integrated into BMW's production lines, thus Alpina is recognized by the German Ministry of Transport as an automobile manufacturer, in contrast to other performance specialists which are aftermarket tuners. For instance, the Alpina B7 is produced at the same assembly line in Dingolfing, Germany, along with BMW's own 7-Series. For the 2011 model year, the B7's twin-turbo 4.4-litre BMW V8 is assembled by hand at Alpina's facility in Buchloe, Germany, before being shipped to BMW for installation, and the assembled vehicle is then sent back to Alpina for finishing touches.
The firm was founded in 1965 by Burkard Bovensiepen, a member of the Bovensiepen family of industrialists.
Alpina is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
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Alpina is a German automobile manufacturing company.
Alpina may also refer to:
- Alpina Productos Alimenticios, a Colombian dairy, food and beverage company
- Alpina Watches, a Swiss manufacturer of luxury watches
- Alpina Žiri, a Slovenian shoe company
- Alpina snowmobiles, an Italian brand of snowmobile manufactured by Alpina s.r.l
- Alpina (moth), a genus of moth
- Alpina, New York, a hamlet - see List of hamlets in Lewis County, New York
Usage examples of "alpina".
I may add that early in August my son found leaves of this same Erica and the fruits of a Carex on the leaves of a Pinguicula in Switzerland, probably Pinguicula alpina.