RE: Alpine A610: Spotted

RE: Alpine A610: Spotted

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South tdf

1,518 posts

194 months

Friday 8th February 2019
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As mentioned above, parts are very expensive but most are still available from a guy in Germany who apparently brought all the remaining Renault stock some years ago.

Having driven both I found the GTA Turbo to be more fun to drive.

RJG46

980 posts

67 months

Friday 8th February 2019
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South tdf said:
As mentioned above, parts are very expensive but most are still available from a guy in Germany who apparently brought all the remaining Renault stock some years ago.

Having driven both I found the GTA Turbo to be more fun to drive.
GTA looked far nicer than the A610 too.

MikeyC

836 posts

226 months

Friday 8th February 2019
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Just spotted these coming up for auction in March

A610 Turbo with 65K miles - Low Estimate of £25K

Also a GTA V6 Turbo 35K mile Ex Patrick Collection - Low Estimate: £12K

may give some insight as to where prices are for these

speedtwelve

3,510 posts

272 months

Friday 8th February 2019
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Fabulous cars. Always wanted an A610 but have now missed the boat (again). Like the GTA, they look so much lower and smaller in the plastic than they do in pics. Only ever saw one on the road (A1 N Yorks) about 20 yrs ago, but still see the odd A610 & GTA at sprints/hillclimbs.

The (ex) Renault dealer in a local village had an A310 like the one in Dinkel's pic in the showroom well into the 2000s.

cybertrophic

225 posts

220 months

Sunday 28th July 2019
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rockin said:
dunnoreally said:
rockin said:
It (the name Alpine) had been owned by Chrysler who sold a frumpy hatchback called Alpine.
I'm guessing that was a throwback from the old Sunbeam Alpine name they inherited from Rootes Group?
Exactly right. Who could forget the splendour of the "Talbot" brand revival from around the same era. Good grief. And then they went on to release the "Sunbeam Lotus", which at least provided an opportunity for Lotus to properly develop the engine already installed in early Lotus Esprit,

"The Chrysler Sunbeam is a small supermini three-door hatchback manufactured by Chrysler Europe at the former Rootes Group factory in Linwood, Scotland from 1977 to 1981. The Sunbeam's development was funded by a British government grant with the aim of keeping the Linwood plant running, and the small car was based on the larger Hillman Avenger, also manufactured there. After the takeover of Chrysler's European operations by PSA [Peugeot etc], the model was renamed "Talbot Sunbeam" and continued in production until 1981. A Talbot Sunbeam Lotus version was successful in rallying and won the World Rally Championship manufacturers' title for Talbot in 1981." - Wikipedia
The sunbeam lotus alpine was a cracking early hot hatch- twin cam lotus engine in a rear-drive chassis that had surprisingly good balance.

To be fair, my folks owned a 1.2 standard alpine hatchback when I was a nipper and even that was a good steer for its day by all accounts. Certainly more lively than the procession of Volkswagen polos they replaced it with for the next fifteen years.