Renault Alpine Vision Concept – Video

Alpine has long been a subsidiary of Renault. The company stopped making sports cars in 1995, and since then its former factory in Dieppe has become the base for the Renault Sport division. The new Alpine model clearly is intended to be a return to the brand’s glory days, with styling resembling the 1960s and ’70s A110 sports car that was rallied with considerable success. The longer-term plan is also to make Alpine a brand in its own right within the Renault-Nissan hierarchy, with a range of models (likely to include at least one crossover) and the tantalizing prospect that its products will eventually get to cross the Atlantic.

 

 

This isn’t a production car—its official title is the Alpine Vision—but the word from inside Renault is that about 80 percent of what you see here will make it to the final version when it goes on sale in 2017. Details have been kept deliberately light, with the official release containing precisely three facts: It will be capable of accelerating from zero to 62 mph in less than 4.5 seconds, it will be lightweight, and it will have a four-cylinder turbocharged engine.