Alpine will be building an almost opposite of the A110 in the form of a 1,000-horsepower V6-powered supercar. The new vehicle will arrive in 2028, and it will be a hybrid with four-figure output. With a gas engine in the back and two motors in the front giving it torque vectoring.
In short, it's a car that sounds a lot like the Ferrari SF90. A car that was developed under the eye of the very same executive who is now in charge at Alpine.
Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo, the boss of Alpine CEO Philippe Krief, confirmed the plan for the new supercar yesterday. It might have overshadowed the day's big story, the reveal of the new Alpine A390 crossover-coupe, slightly, but that's the risk you take when you sit in the big chair.
Krief took the announcement from his boss and ran with it, giving us some more information about the planned car. It was Krief who confirmed that the target was in the range of 1,000 horsepower. He said that it would have a V6 turbocharged engine driving the back wheels and those two electric motors in the front. With the engine driving only the back tires, it will almost certainly be mounted behind the driver.
That's 'almost' certainly because we're not sure what the car will look like. Alpine revealed a concept called the Alpenglow, a hydrogen-powered single-seater you can see in the photos above, but this car won't be that. Krief said that car was meant to be a racer. This car is meant to be a road car. "Very different."
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Alpine's next sports car will keep mid-engine proportions while going all-electric, with an attempt to keep the weight below gas competitors.
The new CEO wants this car to elevate the Alpine brand, to draw more attention to its other models. A 1,000-horsepower supercar from a brand that currently sells only the 249-hp, 2,400-pound A110, will surely do that.
A new V6 engine will be developed for the car by a new division at Renault. Called Hypertech, it is based at the same site where Alpine develops its F1 engines. Or at least did, because Renault is ending that program at the end of the year.
Alpine plans to launch this new model for 2028. That's on top of the five additional new models, for a total of seven, that it plans to have on the market before 2030. A big ask for a company that has, until now, not sold more than one car at a time since 1977.
Renault CEO de Meo is confident in Krief and in Alpine. He told Top Gear magazine that the company was moving in the right direction. "In this sort of exercise, you've got to be patient. You need three generations. Our world is not patient anymore. You have to manage residual values, distribution, the culture."
Alpine is surely looking at the latest special offering from Renault for some hope for its new flagship. That car was the 536-horsepower Renault 5 Turbo E. A hot electric hatch that came with a price tag of around $175,000. A price in the league with some serious performance hardware, and all 1,980 copies sold out within days.
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