Some cars leave a paper trail; the Alpine A210 left a name and a place in Alpine's list. What follows is what can be said with a source behind it.
Where it came from
The Alpine A210 is a sports car prototype manufactured by Alpine that competed in sports car racing from 1966 to 1969. The car is derived from the M series prototypes (M63, M64, and M65) introduced by the company in the early 1960s and powered by Gordini-tuned Renault engines with small displacements.
In 1967, a short-lived V8-powered version of the A210, named as A211, was introduced. A major redesign of the A211, the A220, was unveiled the following year. As a consequence of the poor racing results for the two redesigns, Alpine withdrew from sports car racing all of 1970 to 1973, returning for the 1974 European 2 Liter Sports Car Championship with the Alpine A441, finally achieving the overall win at the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans with the Renault Alpine A442.
In context
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Alpine M65; its successor was the Alpine A220. Nearby in the Alpine catalogue sit the Alpine A110 and the Alpine A110 (2017).