The first Alpine Renault road car appeared in 1955, built by a Renault dealer in Dieppe who already raced. The small French maker built fiberglass coupes, won the first World Rally Championship and took Le Mans with a turbo.
These seven Alpine Renault cars trace that story. It runs from a 4CV-based coupe to the last A110 built at Dieppe. Each one earns its place with a sourced detail, from rally wins to production totals.
1. 1955–1961 Alpine A106
Jean Rédélé ran the Renault dealership in Dieppe and raced on the side, with a class win on the Mille Miglia. His first production car was the A106, a small fiberglass coupe on Renault 4CV mechanicals. In fact, it became the first car to carry the Alpine name.
Hagerty’s centenary piece on Rédélé says the A106 ran from 1955 to 1961. For its base, it used the “748-cc rear-engined Renault 4CV.” Meanwhile, Goodwood’s Alpine history adds that coachbuilder Chappe et Gessalin built the body, and the coupe won local races in France.
2. 1962–1977 Alpine A110 Berlinette
The Berlinette made its debut at the 1962 Paris Salon with a Renault 8 engine of 1,100 cc, according to Goodwood. Later cars moved to bigger Renault 12 and Renault 16 engines. Dieppe built the car until 1977, and licensed plants in Spain, Bulgaria, Brazil and Mexico made it too.
Even so, its real fame came on rally stages. Motor Sport magazine reports that Ove Andersson won the 1971 Monte Carlo Rally in an A110. Then, in 1973, Alpine Renault won six rounds of the new World Rally Championship and took the title. Motor Sport also puts the car’s weight at just 650 kg.
3. 1976–1985 Alpine A310 V6
Alpine first showed the wedge-shaped A310 at Geneva in March 1971 with a four-cylinder engine. However, that version sold poorly. Then the fix arrived in 1976, when V6 cars reached dealers.
Secret Classics rates the V6 at 150 hp and counts 9,276 A310 V6 cars built by 1985. By comparison, only about 2,340 four-cylinder cars sold. The same history credits Michel Beligond and Yves Legal with the body, guided by an early design from Trevor Fiore.
4. 1985 Alpine GTA V6 Turbo
The GTA replaced the A310 in 1984 with a naturally aspirated V6. A year later, the V6 Turbo arrived. Goodwood notes it was the first Alpine built in right-hand drive for Britain, where buyers knew it as the Renault GTA.
The PistonHeads buying guide lists a 2,458cc turbocharged V6 with 200 hp and a 0-62 mph time of 7.0 seconds. Underneath, it also rode on a steel backbone chassis, while fiberglass and plastic panels formed the body. The UK price was £23,635 when new.
5. 1991–1995 Alpine A610
The A610 was a deep facelift of the GTA, with pop-up headlights and a better cabin. In addition, its turbo V6 grew to 3.0 liters, evo says. Goodwood dates the last one built in Dieppe to April 1995.
According to evo’s history of the A610, the engine made 247 bhp and 258 lb-ft, enough for 166 mph. Evo also says only 818 were made in total, 68 of them with right-hand drive.
6. 1978 Renault-Alpine A442B
Of course, not every Alpine was a road car. The A442 sports racer first appeared at Le Mans in 1976. Two years later, the B version won the race on June 10 and 11, 1978. Didier Pironi and Jean-Pierre Jaussaud drove the winning No. 2 car.
Renault’s own heritage page lists a 1,996cc turbocharged V6 with 500 hp and a top speed around 360 km/h. A clear bubble over the cockpit added 5 to 6 km/h on the Mulsanne Straight. Even so, Renault says the cabin had no ventilation, and the temperature soared during the race. The Le Mans organizers note it was the only A442 with that bubble.
7. 2017–2026 Alpine A110
Alpine revived the A110 name at the Geneva show on March 7, 2017, with a Première Edition of 1,955 cars. Production at Dieppe began late that year.
Les Alpinistes reports that Dieppe built 28,701 second-generation A110s in nine years. The final car, an A110 R 70 in Alpine Blue, left the plant on July 1, 2026. That last version, the A110 R 70, used a 1.8-liter turbo four rated at 300 bhp. Alpine made 770 of them.
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