After 10 years, six road-going versions, four race variants and at least 14 special editions, production of the reborn Alpine A110 has come to an end.
You can just about still get a new, unregistered one (there are around 40 in the UK), but they range from £58k right up to £107k, whereas used examples now start from just £35k.
Just under 30,000 A110s were made, around 1700 of which were sold in the UK, making it the third-biggest market. So don't fret about scarcity of parts or support for this slice of exotica – and we've seen cars with nearly 150k miles on the clock, so reliability seems acceptable too.
If you need reminding, the A110 is a superb car. We gave it five stars in our 2018 road test, summing it up as "quick, agile, effusive and ultimately enormous, accessible fun", and that effusive verdict is pretty much true of all subsequent versions too.
Despite Alpine using a modest 1.8-litre turbo four from parent firm Renault, all A110s are plenty quick enough. The standard tune for the Pure and Légende trims produces 248bhp and 236lb ft of torque for a 0-60mph time of just 4.5sec on our stopwatch. Top speed is 155mph.
This engine may have first been used in the Espace, but it feels like it was made for the A110. It buzzes and whooshes up to 7000rpm and hits the key metrics faster than we timed a 718 Cayman – although the Porsche was a manual and the A110 came exclusively with a fast-shifting seven-speed dual-clutch automatic.
Output was bumped to 288bhp for the S and Légende GT, and again to 296bhp in 2022 for the new S, GT and GTS, improving the 0-60mph time and top speed in each instance. The S also got stiffer springs and anti-roll bars, a 4mm drop in ride height and 10mm-wider tyres.
