Alpine A110
Alpine
MarqueAlpine
Production1963–1977
Engine1.0–1.3 L Renault Cléon-Fonte engine / Renault Cléon-Fonte Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.5–1.65 L Renault Cléon-Alu engine / Renault Cléon-Alu I4
Alpine
The Alpine A110 is a sports car produced by French automobile manufacturer Alpine from 1963 to 1977. The car was styled as a "berlinetta", which in the post-WWII era refers to a small enclosed two-door berline, better-known as a coupé. The Alpine A110 succeeded the earlier A108. The car was powered by a succession of Renault engines. A car also named Alpine A110 was introduced in 2017. The Alpine A110 experienced a remarkable evolution in terms of power output throughout its production years. Initially, the A110 had an output of just 51 horsepower, which was adequate for a car weighing only 620 kilograms.
However, by the end of the A110's production run, its power output had increased to 180 horsepower. This impressive increase in power contributed to the car's success on the rally stages of Europe. The A110's crowning achievements included 1-2-3 finishes at both the 1971 and 1973 Monte Carlo rallies, and it used Renault 16 engines at the time. In 1973, Alpine won the inaugural manufacturer's World Rally Championship, defeating competitors such as Lancia, Porsche, and Ford. However, by 1974, advances in rally competition led to a significant shift in the landscape of the sport, and the Alpine A110, which had become outdated, struggled to keep up with its rivals. As a result, sales of the A110 declined, prompting Renault to step in and purchase the company outright in an effort to save it. Despite being surpassed by newer rally cars, the A110's legacy as a successful and iconic rally car remains, and its victories in the early 1970s solidified its place in motorsport history
From the Wikipedia article Alpine A110, CC BY-SA.
This is the catalogue record of the Alpine A110, one of 32 models Alpine has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1963. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Alpine A110 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Maserati Maserati Quattroporte, the Pontiac Pontiac GTO, the Buick Buick Riviera — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Alpine A110 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 1.0–1.3 L Renault Cléon-Fonte engine / Renault Cléon-Fonte Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.5–1.65 L Renault Cléon-Alu engine / Renault Cléon-Alu I4; kerb weight is recorded at 706 kg; drive goes through 5-speed manual; the layout is Rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Alpine's own catalogue the Alpine A110 sits alongside the Alpine A110 (2017), the Alpine A210, the Alpine A290, the Alpine A350. The record names the Alpine A108 as its predecessor and the Alpine A310 / Alpine A110 (2017) (spiritual) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Giovanni Michelotti. Assembly is recorded at Dieppe, France.
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