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 ::::*Apology accepted. The point I think you're missing is that, regardless of where the cars are actually built, Alpina and BMW are separate companies owned by separate people. The fact that the American branch of BMW choose to act differently on occasion does not really change that - it's not uncommon for national dealers to market different things to the main company, but that doesn't make them officially sanctioned. I'm certainly not going to argue that it is a clear-cut case or that things are simple here; we both know that doing so would be stupid. The verifiability of the information is a secondary issue to this, as I am well within my rights to remove long-unsourced content that is barely relevant to the article. The BMW articles are, to be blunt, in a big mess right now (not that they are the only ones, but they are amongst the worst examples of globally-significant car articles I've seen), and they need a lot of tidying up, trimming down and cleaning up - the Alpina removals were only a small part of the cleanup job that I started with. What I will say is this; if we were to get proper articles on the individual Alpina models, as I believe is necessary/desirable (and I presume you'd agree on that front?), then a brief mention (a couple of sentences or so) of the Alpina cars in each article is probably justifiable - the same would go for the other noteworthy tuner cars perhaps, like the Hartge H50. The level of detail that some of these went into, however, isn't, in my opinion, appropriate for the main BMW model articles.   "