Appreciate where you're comming from Roj but, to be fair to Kris, he must have done his homework over the following year. He drove me around the roads towards the Alps for an afternoon on the 2007 summer tour and we talked on a variety of subjects. It was clear to me that he was more of an enthusiast than a salesman at that point. There was no corporate need for him to even entertain us but he went well beyond cursory hospitality.
Ultimately he is a BMW man and he is working his way up the corporate ladder. If he ends up back in Munich, his promotion may benefit Alpina in the long run. Far better that the Munich heirarchy have someone on the inside who is sympathetic and enthusiastic towards Alpina than ignorant of it?