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Bovensiepen 05 GT driven: 790bhp successor to the Alpina B5

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By Richard Lane Verified
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Close Journalists gathered to try the Bovensiepen Zagato in Austria were surprised when a second Bovensiepen model was suddenly revealed – one with 790bhp, and not simply for us to ogle. Anybody who appreciates the back-catalogue of the Bovensiepen family – custodians of Alpina until the naming rights transferred to BMW last year – will recognise the conceptual similarities between the 05 GT, as this second model is known, and the now-extinct Alpina B5.
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Bovensiepen Zagato driven: M-car hardware meets Italian coachwork

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By Richard Lane Verified
| Autocar Verified
Close In Buchloe old habits die hard, if indeed they die at all. The Bovensiepen family has now relinquished the rights to the 60-year-old Alpina name, trading them to the BMW Group, and the first model of their latest venture – Bovensiepen Automobile – represents a new dawn in a great many ways. And yet here we are, pounding round the Salzburgring in a modified BMW of a distinctly road-going disposition, with capitalised letters parading luridly across its chin.
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Bovensiepen 05 GT arrives as 790bhp super-estate

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By Richard Lane Verified
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