{"id":739746,"date":"2026-08-16T11:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739746\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:08:14","slug":"what-alpina-did-next-how-bovensiepen-will-keep-building-ultimate-bmws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739746\/","title":{"rendered":"What Alpina did next: How Bovensiepen will keep building ultimate BMWs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andreas Bovensiepen sweeps into a deserted canteen at the Salzburgring, six minutes late for our interview. I&#8217;d planned to hit him with some pithy enquiry as to the emotional toll of flogging the company his father Burkard founded, but he triggers a vibe-shift.<\/p>\n<p>He reports, with some relish, that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-news\/new-cars\/bovensiepen-zagato-driven-m-car-hardware-meets-italian-coachwork\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bovensiepen Zagato<\/a> he&#8217;s just leapt out of nailed 265kph on the back straight. This makes it as quick as the slick-shod B6 GT3 they used to hammer here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-review\/alpina\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alpina<\/a> events, he continues almost to himself, smiling as he pulls out a chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andreas Bovensiepen sweeps into a deserted canteen at the Salzburgring, six minutes late for our interview. I&#8217;d planned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-739746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}