Latest archived mark · 1990s
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Latest archived mark · 2026
Alpina
Explore full logo history →| What we compare | ABT | Alpina |
|---|---|---|
| Country in archive | Germany | Germany |
| Founded | 1991 | January 1, 1965 |
| Founder | Abt family | Burkard Bovensiepen |
| Headquarters | Kempten im Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany | Buchloe, Bavaria, Germany |
| Name origin | ABT is the surname of the Abt family of Kempten im Allgäu. The family business goes back to 1896, when Johann Baptist Abt's blacksmith and horseshoeing tradition began, and Abt Sportsline GmbH was founded in 1991. | Alpina is the name of the company Burkard Bovensiepen founded in 1965, and the sources used here do not state why that word was chosen. It matches the Latin and German word for alpine, and the brand name was already linked to the Bovensiepen family's earlier typewriter business before the BMW tuning work began. |
| Selected models | Audi A4 DTM, Audi R8 LMS GT3, Abt R8 GTR | C2 2.7, B10 Bi-Turbo, B12 5.7, Roadster V8, B5 Touring, B7 |
| Earliest archived brand logo | — | 1965 |
| Latest archived logo | 1990s | 2026 |
| Archived logo assets | 1 | 2 |
Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.
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