2018 Alpine A110 Gravel Terrain Test – Video

This is a big moment in the history of Alpine, the once iconic French sports car brand that went dormant for a few decades, but which is now on the cusp of making a spectacular return with the all-new mid-engined Alpine A110.

 

It’s an intriguing car for all sorts of weird and mostly wonderful reasons, the new A110. It deliberately eschews huge horsepower – it boasts just 249bhp and 236lb ft from a 1.8-litre turbocharged four cylinder engine – and instead Alpine has gone back to its roots and obsessively kept weight to an absolute minimum. To a point where the claimed kerb weight for the prototype I’m sitting in is just 1,103kg with fluids, including half a tank of petrol.