BMW Just Trademarked A Bunch Of Alpina Model Names, Including XB8

Now that BMW has owned performance tuning company Alpina for a while, it is working on some of the details. One of those is shoring up its intellectual property, which CarBuzz recently uncovered with a slew of new Alpina brand trademark applications. However, lurking in a block of familiar trademark applications like B5, B7, and so on, is one we haven’t seen before. Moreover, it seems to reference a BMW model that doesn’t exist yet.