Final Alpine A110 rolls off production line as brand gears up for electric successor

Alpine has completed its final A110 sports car as it readies to commence production of an electric replacement.

The lightweight A110 was the car that kickstarted the French brand’s rebirth in 2017, bringing a driver-focused experience and a design influenced heavily by the original A110 which went into production in 1969.

Produced in Dieppe, France, the A110 drew praise for its driving characteristics and since it first went into production, some 28,701 examples have been built. The final car to roll off the production line was a lightweight A110 R finished in ‘Bleu Alpine’ with a contrasting black roof. I fact, more than 50 per cent of Alpine A110s produced during the course of its production lifetime were painted blue.

Now, the French brand is readying to produce the new electric A110. Sitting atop a new Alpine Performance Platform – or APP – it’s expected to follow a similar design direction to its predecessor and will aim to incorporate the same lightweight focus as before.

Alpine says that ‘it aims to become the first true electric sports car on the market, combining performance, lightness, agility and driving emotion in a new technological era.’

The new A110 is expected to make a dynamic debut in prototype form at next week’s Goodwood Festival of Speed ahead of a full reveal later in the year. As with the car that came before it, the new electric A110 will also be produced at Alpine’s Dieppe plant.