'It's not a car for dandies': Renault to produce exciting new Alpine in 2015

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Home Finance Reviews Under The Hood Motorsport Business Profiles Archive Related Tags: Renault, Alpine, Caterham, Audi, Porsche, Mazda, France, Surrey, Sports Car, under the hood 'It's not a car for dandies': Renault to produce exciting new Alpine in 2015 By: Danny Hewitt Ref:A00032 Published: 7 January 2013 RENAULT and Caterham are to rival Porsche by launching a stylish and fresh 250bhp model within three years.The Alpine sports car, which will cost less than £50,000, will be an elegant and more simplified concept of the A110-50 unveiled by Renault earlier last year. Renault Caterham Sports Car

The new car will be similar but a more simplified version of the Alpine A110-50 concept - a car that received praise by both critics and members of the public for its aesthetics.It will be the first car produced under the Caterham-Renault deal, after the Surrey-based company bought 50 per cent of Automobiles Alpine Renault last Autumn to create a new company - now known as the Societe des Automobiles Alpine Caterham. "It won't be more hardcore than a Mazda MX-5," said Renault's Stephen Norman. "What we do will not be soft, but not hardcore like a Peugeot 106 Rallye. You can't betray the DNA of Alpine. That's a third of what the car will be." "It must be light and look different, and have a touch of French dash. It's not a car for dandies, though. We know who the buyer is: he's either French or a Francophile. And the car has technical innovation as part of its DNA," he added, elaborating on the Alpine DNA. It will be made in Dieppe from 2015 - the home of Alpine since it was founded by Jean Renault in 1955 - alongside a new and more refined Caterham. Renault Sports Alpine

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