Alpine A110 Price Guide

The Alpine A110 name has served two generations of rear-engined sports car — separated by forty years but connected by the same founding philosophy: that a car built light and driven with intelligence will beat something twice as powerful driven without it. The Berlinette that took the inaugural WRC title in 1973 and the mid-engined aluminium coupé that rewrote the rulebook in 2017 are very different machines, but they share a lineage of thought that no other manufacturer can claim.

The Original Berlinette (1963–1977)

Jean Rédélé’s masterpiece used rear-mounted Renault engines in a tubular backbone chassis clothed in Giovanni Michelotti’s fibreglass body. It weighed as little as 620kg in competition form, won Monte Carlo three times, and took the inaugural WRC title in 1973. The full story is in the dedicated Berlinette guide. The A310 succeeded it in Alpine’s lineup.

The Modern A110 (2017–present)

Renault’s revival took the founding principle — lightness as the primary engineering value — and applied it with aluminium construction, a mid-mounted 1.8-litre turbo four-cylinder, and around 1,100kg of kerb weight. The full buying guide is in the modern A110 entry. The A290 is Alpine’s latest model, taking the brand into electric territory.

Which to Choose

The Berlinette requires classic car ownership skills — mechanical sympathy, tolerance for period electrics, and the ability to read a sliding rear end. The modern car is immediate and accessible, a twenty-first-century sports car that shares a badge with one of the most important competition cars of the twentieth. They are not rivals; they are chapters in the same story.