The Alpine Cars Thread

This is your first proper look at the all-electric Alpine A110

Alpine sends its A110 Future prototype up the hill at Goodwood with Pierre Gasly at the wheel

Alpine has gone big for this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, and alongside some old F1 cars and its 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans winning A442B, it’s also showing off its future.

Quite literally in fact, because what you see above is known as the Alpine A110 Future. Essentially, it’s a development mule for the next generation A110, and it’s silently sweeping up the hill to give us our very first dynamic look.

Alpine F1 driver Pierre Gasly actually piloted it on day one of the festival with the Duke of Richmond riding shotgun. Unfortunately, Pierre was asked to be rather careful with this important prototype, so we didn’t quite get to see it flat out. Booo.

Still, looks like it’ll be low and wide looking, and of course we already knew that it was getting two electric motors on its rear axle and two separate 800-volt battery packs to mimic the 40:60 front to rear balance of a classic mid-engined sports car. No word on whether the target weight is still 1,400kg.

 
Wow, check out what Milltek wants to do to your Alpine A290

… or your poor, unsuspecting little Renault 5!

While it looks mighty with its monstrous arches, vented bonnet and stripped out interior, there’s no getting away from the fact that Renault’s 533bhp 5 Turbo 3 E is a little bit pricey. Heck, it’s a little electric hatchback that costs £135,000 before options, and with a few boxes ticked you’re looking at a bill for over £200,000. Yikes.

So, what if you want a little bit of the look for one per cent of the price? Well, Milltek’s new bodykit costs £2,000 and is “channelling the vibes and design cues of the original Renault 5 Maxi Turbo”.

And it’s not just for the hot Alpine A290 either, because apparently the same wacky widebody look can also be applied to the standard Renault 5. Poor thing.

The kit includes the front and rear arch extensions, the funky little sideburns that extend under the headlights, a new charging flap, a rear spoiler, side skirts and updated foglights for the Alpine.


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New 2027 Alpine A110 design previewed by full-scale sculpture

Electric sports car's new look will build on retro cues of its mid-engined predecessor

Alpine has previewed the design of the next-generation A110 ahead of its 2027 debut with an 'artistic vision' that takes the form of a full-scale sculpture.

The third generation of the brand's flagship sports car will be the first all-electric version and will sit on the advanced new Alpine Performance Platform (APP). Renault's performance brand has previously detailed key elements of that platform and a test mule for the new A110 has made a public appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, albeit packaged in the previous car's bodywork.

The new sculpture – which will make its debut at the Paris motor show next month – is designed to evoke the veils that are often used to conceal new models before their public debuts. But it also gives clear clues to the future A110's design, with a sleek, aerodynamic-honed form. It suggests that the model will retain Alpine's signature V-shaped front but gain hexagonal headlights and more sculpted bodywork at the side.

Alpine design chief Antony Villain said the sculpture hinted at how the new A110 took inspiration from nature and the wind, and also from the supersonic Concorde jet, which was co-developed by the British and the French.

He said: "For the third-generation A110, we wanted something that was more dramatic, so we played with Concorde at the moment when it goes supersonic, and used this as an inspiration to create an echo shape that we interpreted on the body sides."

 
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