The founders of BMW’s wholly owned tuning home, Alpina, have revealed this beautiful – and far more highly effective – coachbuilt model of the German model’s already-rapid M4 Cup.
With the Bovensiepen household having bought Alpina to BMW, they’ve now teamed up with well-known Italian design home Zagato to supply this beautiful BMW M4-based grand tourer, merely dubbed the Bovensiepen Zagato.
Revealed on the Villa d’Este Concorso d’Eleganza on Italy’s Lake Como over the weekend, the primary product from the Bovensiepens’ unbiased coachbuilding enterprise delivers 443kW of energy and 700Nm of torque from its turbocharged 3.0-litre inline six-cylinder engine.
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As is the best way of the previous Alpina tuners, that’s considerably greater than each the usual M4 handbook (353kW/550Nm) and the top-shelf M4 Competitors xDrive auto (390kW/650Nm), which is priced at $189,900 earlier than on-road prices in Australia.
Bovensiepen says the result’s 0-100km/h acceleration in simply 3.3 seconds (0.2 seconds earlier than the M4 Competitors) and a prime velocity of greater than 300km/h – up from 292km/h.
The powertrain positive aspects come partially from a light-weight twin-exit titanium exhaust system from Akrapovic, which is claimed to be 40 lighter than the usual system.
Bespoke three-mode Bilstein dampers assist harness the additional efficiency.
Bovensiepen claims the Consolation, Sport and Sport Plus settings ship “a spread from pronounced consolation to athletic driving dynamics”.
However the glossy new Zagato-designed physique will doubtless entice much more consideration than this coupe’s Akrapovic exhaust.
As a part of the Bovensiepen household’s purpose to turn out to be “a producer of excellent vehicles that embody the ambition of high quality driving”, the Zagato options all-new physique panels to make it look considerably totally different to the mid-size German coupe on which it’s primarily based.
Mentioned to mix Bavarian engineering with Italian design, Zagato’s newest creation options the Milan-based firm’s trademark ‘double bubble’ roof and rear window, and a reshaped bonnet and bootlid with built-in rear spoiler, plus a chrome steel grille and totally retractable frameless home windows.
It bears the Bovensiepen brand on its entrance and rear, there are Zagato badges on the entrance wing gills and additional branding will be seen on the brake calipers, wheel hubs, boot and centre console, which homes a particular construct quantity plaque alongside further lashings of carbon-fibre.
An actual manufacturing quantity has not been revealed, however Bovensiepen says its inaugural particular version might be “strictly” restricted after first deliveries happen on the finish of the second quarter of 2026.
A protracted record of personalisation choices may even be obtainable for the inside and exterior, permitting every automobile to be “as distinctive as its proprietor”, says Bovensiepen.
“Our aim is to construct vehicles for connoisseurs and fans who respect the proper symbiosis of design and expertise,” mentioned Bovensiepen Vehicles CEO, Andreas Bovensiepen.
Zagato’s chief designer Norihiko Harada mentioned: “It’s a sort of mix of Italian allure, sensual and delicate design, with a really stable, virtually architectural German construction… a stupendous fusion of two automotive cultures.
“The artwork of coachbuilding was born in Milan over 500 years in the past. Atelier Zagato has been working for 106 years in collaboration with essentially the most prestigious automotive manufacturers. Designing the primary automotive for a newly born marque is a practice we’re proud to proceed.”
Established within the 1920, Zagato has beforehand labored with automakers together with Aston Martin, Alfa Romeo, Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Bentley, Maserati and Lancia.
“This mission with the Bovensiepen household is especially particular, because it continues the legacy of mixing Zagato DNA with that of a brand new and galvanizing model, ranging from its very first creation,” mentioned Zagato president Andrea Michele Zagato.
The Bovensiepen Zagato was revealed at Lake Como only a day after the BMW 8 Sequence-based Speedtop taking pictures brake particular version, which can enter manufacturing subsequent yr.
Subsequent yr BMW may even reveal its plan for Alpina, after ex-Polestar designer Max Missoni was employed by the Bavarian model to fashion all of its future luxurious fashions together with Alpinas.
