The story begins with Porsche, 1966 Porsche at 9 1 1? The super classic fuchs wheel hub was adopted on the S, and the German market became more and more interested in aluminum alloy wheels, so ALPINA began to develop its own iconic light alloy wheel hub in 1960s.
In fact, as early as E9 series models, BMW has been equipped with FPS-style aluminum lightweight wheels, and for the first time in BMW 2800? CS？ Coupe models are available. And Albina also put Borrani multi-spoke wheels and British Minilite? Electronic wheel hub is a part of genuine accessories product portfolio, but Albina needs its own light alloy wheel hub to survive due to after-sales costs.
For albin Turner, in order to realize the lightweight wheel hub design, engineers in albin Turner found a requirement that must be met: multiple spokes. In order to achieve the best force distribution, the best state is five spokes, which can evenly transfer the force from the outside of the wheel to the middle.
However, in the late 1960s, BMW's wheels mostly adopted four-nut structure, which made it more difficult for albina to realize five-spoke wheels. So Burchard, the founder of albin? Bovensiepen came up with a brilliant idea: design the hub into 20 small spokes, so that the principle of 5 spokes can be applied to the structure of 4 nuts.
Thus, albina's star-shaped 20-spoke light alloy wheel hub was born, and its unique design can attract many people's attention on the road. At first, this design provided two options: 13 inch and 14 inch. Later, it became more and more popular in1970s. In fact, there were some problems with the structural rigidity of the hub in the early 1970s. Later, albina introduced the famous Opel engineer alois? Visinger dug it up and solved the problem.
In 197 1, BMW has approved BMW to use 20-spoke wheels. ALPINA products are standard, while 3.0? CSL is a pioneer in this field. By 1975, Albina factory has produced more than 12000 star-shaped 20-spoke wheels.
As a part of close cooperation with ALPINA, BMW can also assemble and produce 20-spoke alloy wheels by itself, and then each ALPINA model (including E2 1? Series 3) all adopt 20-spoke hub design, which is already a very classic and iconic ALPINA element.
The iconic ALPINA wheels are also gradually upgraded, and both forging and metal casting still adhere to the original basic principles. 1999, Wolfgang reizel (Wolfgang? Professor Reitzle wants to work in E53? In order to launch a special ALPINA version, Albina had to modify the wheel hub to adapt to the weight of the SAV model.
So the 20-spoke hub is divided into five groups, each group has four spokes, which are distributed in a star shape. This spoke arrangement continues to this day, and the latest model is Albina based on G20/G2 1 ALPINA developed by series 3? B3 model.
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