Alpine does not build many cars like the Alpine A106: a 2-door Coupé / Cabriolet with 747 , built from 1955 to 1961 at the height of the post-war boom. Its designer of record is Giovanni Michelotti.
How it came about
The Alpine A106 is a sports car that was the first of a line of light-weight glass-fibre bodied, rear-engined two-door coupés produced for a young competition-oriented Dieppe based Renault dealer called Jean Rédélé. The car was based on mechanical components from the Renault 4CV.
The hardware
Under the skin sits 747 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Kerb weight is 540 kg. The gearbox is a 3-speed manual / 5-speed (Claude designed transmission optional). The layout matters: the engine hangs behind the rear axle, a layout that gives ferocious traction out of a corner and a reputation to match on the way in. The wheelbase is 2100 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Alpine's history is not in doubt: the Alpine A108 followed it; it was built at Dieppe, France. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL, the Nissan Skyline. Its Alpine stablemates include the Alpine A110 and the Alpine A110 (2017).
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Alpine A106 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.