The Alpine A108 is a 2-door Coupé / 2-door 2+2 Coupé / 2-door Cabriolet from Alpine, built from 1958 to 1965, at the height of the post-war boom. Under the bonnet: 845 . Giovanni Michelotti & Phillipe Charles drew it.
How it came about
The Alpine A108 is a light-weight glass-fibre bodied, rear-engined two-door coupé produced for a young competition-oriented Dieppe based Renault dealer called Jean Rédélé. The car replaced the Alpine A106 and was based on mechanical components from the Renault Dauphine.
The hardware
Power comes from 845 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 530 kg. It shifts through a 3-speed manual / 4-speed manual / 5-speed manual. 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 / 2160 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Alpine A106; its successor was the Alpine A110; assembly was at Dieppe, France. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Nissan Patrol, the Dodge Challenger, the Mini Mini — show what else the money bought that year. Its Alpine stablemates include the Alpine A110 and the Alpine A110 (2017).
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Alpine A108 — 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.