Alpine A110 owners

[RikkertBiemans]

Alpine Legende GT said:

has anyone managed a good installation of an old school cd player and integrated it

You better ask this in one of the forums for the old mk1 a110. This board is for models from 2017 upwards 😉

[Alpine Legende GT]

Mine is a 2021 Legende GT I'd still like to play cds without having to rely on the sd card or usb for inputs

[FrenchA110]

HokumPokum said:

does anyone know the weight implications of the focal premium vs standard?

is the premium that much better?
I'm normally not one for sound systems in cars

Standard Focal is 1kg lighter than the standard audio.
Focal Premium subwoofer and amp add 2kg vs standard Focal.

I have standard Focal currently and it’s already pretty good. Just a bit weak in bass at motorway speeds so I ordered my new S with Premium.

[LE62NDE]

Just as we thought our cars were going to become a slightly more common sight on UK and European roads...
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/safety...

[Terminator X]

LE62NDE said:

Just as we thought our cars were going to become a slightly more common sight on UK and European roads...
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/safety...

Crazy. Yet more Regs to kill off the drivers amongst us.

TX.

[worldwidewebs]

EU regulations?

[FrenchA110]

Yup, gotta love them.

[worldwidewebs]

But surely won't impact the UK

[bcr5784]

worldwidewebs said:

But surely won't impact the UK

Suppose it depends on whether we buy into the regs - if we want to sell our cars into the EU our manufacturers will have to. Whether the government will mandate the EU regs here remains to be seen. If they don't then we may get a bigger allocation of the limited edition cars, so we may actually benefit. All speculation at the moment.

[AlexNJ89]

In my Alpine I absolutely love turning off the motorway and just finding random back roads. I genuinely believe very few cars can be either a motorway cruiser or a car which can be so light and nimble on a bumpy road driving between farmer's fields. You wouldn't dare take something like a Ferrari down as it would be too hard and powerful to handle the roads.

Is there an app or technique for finding the best roads?

At the moment I will enter small towns on Google maps and just keep finding the tiniest winding looking roads on Google maps then pull over, enter the town in that direction then start driving again.

It would be amazing if there was a better way? But I have my doubts.

[LE62NDE]

You could go old school and use OS maps: the 1:25000 ones used to show 'scenic routes' as roads edged in green...but I've just checked and the A4069 ('Top Gear Road') over the Mynydd Du/Black Mountain doesn't have one, so maybe they've stopped doing that now...

[LE62NDE]

worldwidewebs said:

But surely won't impact the UK

The formatting is a bit mangled on the web version, so the final sentence gets divided up by a picture. It reads: 'With the UK adopting the EU’s GSR2 regulations at the same time as Europe, there will also be no chance of the UK market becoming more important for Alpine, and taking the supply of cars that can’t be sold on the continent'.

[PhilipIbrahim]

The ViaMichelin app has a "Discovery" route option that does this sort of thing. I have not used it myself, so I cannot say whether it just takes you around industrial estates.

[leglessAlex]

PhilipIbrahim said:

The ViaMichelin app has a "Discovery" route option that does this sort of thing. I have not used it myself, so I cannot say whether it just takes you around industrial estates.

This supposed to be good more often than not, although like you I haven't tried it myself. Maybe I should, some friends rate it highly and I believe Harry M has had good success with it.

[AlexNJ89]

Thanks guys, will give the ViaMichelin app a go!

[Whaleblue]

worldwidewebs said:

But surely won't impact the UK

In that article:

“France currently represents more than half of Alpine’s sales volume for the A110 and post-2024 could probably account for all of the cars that the company would be allowed to sell within the EU.”

So, no more A110 ICE cars for the UK from July 2024 perhaps?

[domrusty]

Except we’re no longer in the EU?

The article also says they may have to push more sales in export markets (which presumably now includes U.K.)

[Whaleblue]

I’m reading that as they simply won’t have capacity/allowed volumes to satisfy anything beyond the demand within France. I’d also suggest that dropping RHD production would make sense under these circumstances.

[xondat]

AlexNJ89 said:

Is there an app or technique for finding the best roads?

https://roadcurvature.com/

I've played around with the data to find the "best" roads in the UK, been exploring a few of them in my area and it definitely checks out. It doesn't check for speed limits etc, just raw curviness data.

First image is all the roads over 1000 curvature in GB. Second image when I pruned the data a bit - over 3000 curvature, and over 5.00mi.

[Miserablegit]

Whaleblue said:

I’m reading that as they simply won’t have capacity/allowed volumes to satisfy anything beyond the demand within France. I’d also suggest that dropping RHD production would make sense under these circumstances.

I’d always understood Alpine production to end in 2024 so anything beyond that is a bonus. The cars arrived here in 2018 so if no purchase has been made by a potential purchaser in 6 years I think it unlikely to be made at all.