The Alpine Cars Thread

The new Alpine A290 Rallye is a £62k customer competition car

No extra power to report, but there’s upgraded running gear, racier suspension and a tweaked sound generator

Say hello to the Alpine A290 ‘Rallye’. It’s the brand’s first all-electric customer competition car, intended for both one-make events and open races, and will debut later this year.

Though the running gear has been adapted for motorsport, the front-driven e-motor remains unchanged, maintaining a punchy 215bhp and 221lb ft of torque. Alpine has instead fettled with the ECU and revamped the monitoring systems, allowing the 52kWh battery to work more efficiently.

What’s more, the Rallye will get a different sort of sound generator to the standard car, which tunes in with the driver’s throttle inputs to make… noise. Precisely what sort of noise, we’ll have to wait and see.

Looks the part too, no? The body gets a roof scoop and a black bonnet with pins, finished up with a funky blue and white livery. Can’t forget those 18in Evo Corse alloys either, painted in the customary shade of white and wrapped around a set of Michelin rubber.

 
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