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Earlier today in Monaco, Groupe
Renault confirmed its plans for a new Alpine sports car, and unveiled the
Alpine Vision show car.
Groupe
Renault Chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn said at the launch: “Earlier this month
we announced our return to Formula One with a Renault team, and today we are
announcing Alpine. This is an exciting next step in our strategy to leverage
talent and technology between road and track, and we look forward to reaching
new customers in the sport premium cars segment.”
Inspired by the great Alpine A110
Berlinette the latest Alpine Vision is powered by a new 4 cylinder turbocharged
engine, built by Renault Sport. Its low weight will allow the car to achieve 0
to 100 km/h (62mph) in less than 4.5 seconds - the target for the future
production model.
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Alpine Managing Director, Michael
van der Sande added: “Our job is to
faithfully re-interpret famous Alpines of the past and project Alpine into the
future with a beautifully designed, agile, high-performance sports car. Our
Alpine Vision show car is immediately recognizable as an Alpine yet resolutely
modern. We look forward to revealing the production model later this year.”
Over the next 12 months, the
Alpine team will focus on building an outstanding car, very close to today’s show
car in terms of design, weight, handling, agility and attention to detail.
Priorities will also include building out the team and the network, and
finally, to pursue racing.
The current Signatech-Alpine
Racing Team has already won two European endurance championships, and won the
LMP2 class in the World Endurance Championship last year in Shanghai; and this
year, the team will enter two Alpine LMP2 cars in the World Endurance
Championship, including Le Mans.
Made in Dieppe, France, the new
Alpine will go on sale in 2017 initially in Europe.
