Retro Alpine!

Perpetually on my "List of cars I'd like to drive some day",  five Renault Alpines A-110 from the Renault Classic collection will be taking part in this year's Rally Monte-Carlo Historique.  

Forty year ago, Alpine-Renault scored a 1-2-3 finish at the Monte and went on to win what was the first WRC manufacturers title.

The winning crew from 1973,  Jean Claude Andruet and Michele "Biche" Petit will be leading the group.  Madame "Biche" should be quite familiar with some of the roads, she just finished competing in the 2013  Rally Monte Carlo as a navigator in a Mitsubishi Evo IX!

Kimi hoons an Alpine A110-50

I wonder if they  let Romain Grosjean drive one these days...

Car sounds fantastic and looks awesome with in day-glo orange and blue.

Renault Alpine A110-50 on the streets of Monaco

And some historic A110 footage. It's useful to remember that the rear engined A110 were essentially like 911 if the engineers never tamed the horrid behavior. They were, how can I put it, tricky.



Now this A100=50 tribute, concept, race car, whatever it is,  looks very cool and at 400 hp x 880 kg with full aero, sequential gearbox and full Magneti Marelli data collection package (like on the Ferrari 458 Challenge) and the noise from that V6 turbo... well sounds like our kind of toy, right?

Press release straight from La Régie Renault, desktop sized pictures and more clips after the jump.