{"id":85607,"date":"2026-05-22T16:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=85607"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:07:25","slug":"vision-bmw-alpina-alpina-blue-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=85607","title":{"rendered":"BMW Will Offer Period-Correct ALPINA Colors to Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"post-summary-wrap\">\n<h3 class=\"post-summary-title\">Article Summary<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"post-summary-list\">\n<li>BMW confirmed ALPINA Blue and ALPINA Green will be offered on the production Vision ALPINA, with period-correct shades available on request<\/li>\n<li>BMWBLOG rendered the concept in both historic colors; BMW separately developed a new shade inspired by alpine mist<\/li>\n<li>Adrian Van Hooydonk&#8217;s early color commitment is unusual for a concept at this stage, and signals BMW is taking the ALPINA heritage seriously<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>We rendered the Vision BMW ALPINA in two of the brand\u2019s most historically significant colors \u2014 ALPINA Blue and ALPINA Green \u2014 and the results are worth talking about. Both shades have been on road cars since the 1970s, worn by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/2026\/05\/21\/alpina-e24-b7-concorso-eleganza-villa-deste-2026\/\">B7 Turbos<\/a>, E28 B9 3.5s, and competition cars that raced under the ALPINA banner long before BMW owned the name. BMW, for its part, has also developed a third color for the Vision: a new shade inspired by alpine mist, with no direct predecessor in the ALPINA catalog.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Van Hooydonk, BMW Group Head of Design, confirmed though that both historic blue and green colors will be available to customers on the production model, and that if you want the period-correct shade rather than a modern interpretation, BMW will oblige.<\/p>\n<h2>The Vision For The Brand<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-00.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-513798\" title=\"VISION BMW ALPINA GREEN 00\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-00-683x830.jpg\" alt=\"VISION BMW ALPINA GREEN 00\" width=\"683\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-00-683x830.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-00-843x1024.jpg 843w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-00-768x933.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-00-1265x1536.jpg 1265w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-00-1686x2048.jpg 1686w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-00.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Vision BMW ALPINA is a concept that previews where BMW intends to take the ALPINA nameplate following its<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/2022\/03\/10\/bmw-officially-buys-alpina\/\"> full acquisition of the brand<\/a>. ALPINA had operated as an independent tuner and coachbuilder since the 1960s, building cars at its Buchloe facility that BMW sold through its dealer network under special regulatory status. When BMW completed its acquisition, the future of the brand as a standalone entity became unclear. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/2026\/05\/15\/vision-bmw-alpina-revealed\/\">Vision answers part of that question<\/a>: ALPINA is not going away, but it will exist as a distinct model line within BMW rather than as a separate company producing its own cars.<\/p>\n<p>The concept itself is a large, low-slung grand tourer. The proportions favor the long-distance driving ALPINA has always done better than M GmbH \u2014 a car you could take from Munich to Monaco without arriving angry. The design incorporates ALPINA\u2019s traditional pinstripe detailing along the lower body and around the wheels, which on production ALPINA cars has always been applied by hand. Whether that practice survives into a BMW-run production model is an open question.<\/p>\n<h2>ALPINA Blue and Green: The Colors That Started Everything<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-blue-00.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-513800\" title=\"VISION BMW ALPINA BLUE 00\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-blue-00-683x830.jpg\" alt=\"VISION BMW ALPINA BLUE 00\" width=\"683\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-blue-00-683x830.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-blue-00-843x1024.jpg 843w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-blue-00-768x933.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-blue-00-1265x1536.jpg 1265w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-blue-00-1686x2048.jpg 1686w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-blue-00.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ALPINA Blue is arguably the original ALPINA signature color. The shade emerged in the early years of ALPINA\u2019s road car production and became strongly associated with the brand through the 1970s and 1980s, when it appeared on some of the fastest cars on German roads. The B7 Turbo wore it. So did the B6 2.8 and several competition-spec cars that raced under the ALPINA banner.<\/p>\n<p>The specific hue has drifted slightly over the decades \u2014 the blues of the 1970s had a warmer, slightly more saturated character than later interpretations. When Van Hooydonk says customers can request a period-correct shade, he is acknowledging that gap. The Vision render uses a cooler, more modern blue with depth that reads differently in direct sun versus shade. It works well on the concept\u2019s long flanks, giving the car a formality that brighter blues would undercut.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-513799\" title=\"VISION BMW ALPINA GREEN 01\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-01-697x830.jpg\" alt=\"VISION BMW ALPINA GREEN 01\" width=\"697\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-01-697x830.jpg 697w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-01-859x1024.jpg 859w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-01-768x915.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-01-1289x1536.jpg 1289w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-01-1719x2048.jpg 1719w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vision-bmw-alpina-green-01.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ALPINA Green has always been the less expected of the two colors. Fewer cars left Buchloe wearing it, which makes the examples that did something of a rarity today. The shade sits in that range between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/2025\/01\/30\/bmw-m3-cs-touring-british-racing-green\/\">British Racing Green<\/a> and a darker sage, avoiding both the corporate look of modern dark greens and the retro affectation of a reproduction BRG.<\/p>\n<p>On the Vision, it is the more striking of the two renders. The concept\u2019s surfaces catch the color differently depending on the angle \u2014 darker in the creases, richer on the flat panels. It also pairs well with the chrome-finish ALPINA wheels the concept wears, where ALPINA Blue reads as the safer, more obviously correct choice.<\/p>\n<h2>A New Color: Inspired By Alpine Mist<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vision-BMW-ALPINA-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-513331\" title=\"VISION BMW ALPINA 1\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vision-BMW-ALPINA-1-830x467.jpg\" alt=\"VISION BMW ALPINA 1\" width=\"830\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vision-BMW-ALPINA-1-830x467.jpg 830w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vision-BMW-ALPINA-1-1820x1024.jpg 1820w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vision-BMW-ALPINA-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vision-BMW-ALPINA-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vision-BMW-ALPINA-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The official Vision BMW ALPINA color is the most interesting one to think about, because it is the only one BMW actually had to invent. Alpine mist as a reference point is apt \u2014 it describes a color that sits somewhere between a cool grey and a very pale green, the kind of shade you actually see on an overcast morning in the Alps when the light is flat and the snow line starts high.<\/p>\n<p>On the Vision ALPINA\u2019s long, low surfaces, that color reads well. The concept\u2019s body has enough complexity \u2014 the creases, the proportions, the ALPINA detailing \u2014 that a quieter color lets the form do the work. The new shade also connects to ALPINA\u2019s general sensibility without copying any specific historical paint. ALPINA customers have always skewed toward understatement relative to M buyers. A color that references a landscape rather than a racing heritage fits that.<\/p>\n<p>Van Hooydonk also confirmed that there will be an ALPINA Individual-type of program where the imagination of the customer is the limit. So we expect to see some amazing color choices when future BMW ALPINAs arrive, starting with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/2026\/05\/15\/bmw-confirms-alpina-7-series-2027\/\">new 7 Series\/B7 next year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"cmplazyload\" data-cmp-vendor=\"s30\" data-cmp-purpose=\"c52\" title=\"Vision BMW ALPINA Explained by Its Designer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-cmp-type=\"text\/plain\" data-cmp-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9jRKNdTkFF8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Summary BMW confirmed ALPINA Blue and ALPINA Green will be offered on the production Vision ALPINA, with period-correct shades available on request BMWBLOG rendered the concept in both historic colors; 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