► Production car will launch in 2024
The new electric hot hatch is the start of Alpine’s all-electric future, and it’s a pretty tasty place to start. ‘When it was first discussed, the immediate feeling was to do ahot hatch,’ Antony Villain, Alpine’s head of design, tells CAR. ‘I think that’s something that’s missing right now, and something that French manufacturers are really good at.
Given it’s a show car, Alpine has gone to town on the details and used some extreme materials. Carbonfibre is used liberally, with a blue-tinged forged carbon marked in the sills and lower valances. The massive concept car-spec wheels feature a design inspired by the A110 Légende, and there are functional air ducts in the C-pillars.This is where Alpine’s had some fun.