Have you heard of the car brand called Alpine. Not Alpina the BMW tuning company. Alpine?
For many years, Alpine was considered a missing brand. In any case, and after being acquired by Renault in 1973, the French brand parked the Alpine project since the mid-nineties, to resume it just forty years after the birth of the Alpine A110 , one of its most remembered and representative models.
Alpine is a historic sports car manufacturer, which began after the Second World War preparing race cars based on the Renault of the time.
From now on, Alpine will not be just a product, or even a range of products. Renault intends to advance as a brand with its own entity, taking advantage of the resurgence of some classic icons in products of a certain exclusive cut, with a retro design, and with a sports or luxury philosophy.
The Alpine A110 without going any further, will mark on the scale just over 1,000 kilograms and will enjoy some benefits the sea of interesting, with a four-cylinder engine and 1.8-liter displacement, turbo, 255hp of power, gearbox Automatic double clutch – Getrag development – and a 0 to 100 km/h in the environment of 4.5 seconds.
The Alpine A110 will not be the only product of the resurgent Alpine, which has foreseen the launch of a whole range of vehicles in which there will even be an SUV.
