Alpine A350

Among the 32 Alpine entries in the MotorJury library, the Alpine A350 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1968.

The era it was born into

To read the Alpine A350 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 Toyota Toyota Hilux, the Peugeot Peugeot 504, the Range Rover Range Rover — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Alpine A350 reads like this: quoted output is 295 HP @ 7,500 rpm / 372 Nm @ 3,500 rpm; kerb weight is recorded at 540 kg. Worked together, those figures give roughly 546 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. 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.

Its place in the Alpine story

Within Alpine's own catalogue the Alpine A350 sits alongside the Alpine A110, the Alpine A110 (2017), the Alpine A210, the Alpine A290. Design is credited to Richard Bouleau.

On the record

The Alpine A350 also has a competition record: 0 recorded wins from 0 starts. A race history changes how a car should be valued — competition machines appreciate on provenance, not depreciation curves.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Alpine A350 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.