You know Alpina. The Bovensiepen family built it from nothing in a workshop in Buchloe, Germany — and for over 50 years they made BMWs that BMW itself wouldn't. Then BMW bought the brand in 2022, and the family walked away with their name and their craft. What they built next is the Bovensiepen 05 GT, and it's exactly what you'd expect from people who spent half a century making the best wagons in the world.
It starts with a full BMW M5 Touring as its base — already 727hp in stock form. The Bovensiepens got hold of that hybridized twin-turbo V-8, massaged the engine calibration, added a bespoke titanium Akrapovič exhaust exiting through four oval pipes, and extracted 800 horsepower and 811 lb-ft of torque. If you're keeping score: that's more torque than a Bugatti Chiron.
Same Hands. Same Factory. Different Badge.
The 05 GT is built by hand in the same Buchloe facility where the Bovensiepens built Alpinas for decades. Same craftspeople. Same attention to the structural bracing, strut tower reinforcement, and suspension geometry that made those old B5s handle like they were on rails. New Eibach springs replace the M5's adaptive setup, dialing in the chassis for a dynamic character the family defines as "fast but livable."
The styling is by Frank Stephenson — a name worth saying out loud. Stephenson designed the original BMW X5, the reborn Mini Cooper, the Fiat 500, the Ferrari F430, and the McLaren P1. His brief here was restraint: smooth the M5 Touring's aggression into something more flowing, more grand tourer than track bruiser. He pulled it off. The 05 GT wears 21-inch 20-spoke wheels in a custom Pirelli compound and carries itself with serious intent.
Bovensiepen 05 GT — Key Numbers
What It Means
There's something poetic about this car. BMW bought the Alpina name, folded it into corporate, and is now using it on an electric SUV. Meanwhile, the people who actually built Alpina — the family, the craftspeople, the engineers in that same Buchloe shop — are still doing exactly what they always did. The badge changed. The DNA didn't.
The 05 GT isn't a nostalgia act. It's a legitimate 800hp performance wagon that happens to be made by the people most qualified on earth to build it. Customers get massive spec flexibility at its €~215,000 German market price. Production is limited. It will be impossible to get and worth every penny for those who do.
You can't track it out of the box. But for the person who wants a bespoke fast estate with a lineage that predates most of the cars in the supercar segment — this is it.