If all goes to plan, the Alpine sports car brand of 2030 will be unrecognizable from the one we know today. The firm currently sells only one car – the critically acclaimed, but aging A110 – and in only one part of the world. But by the decade’s end, Renault’s performance arm will have a presence in crucial markets like the U.S. and a seven-strong, all-EV lineup that includes an A110 roadster.
Alpine dropped the roadster news today during the company’s investor day when it reiterated its plan to develop its own Alpine Performance Platform (APP) architecture having decided not to proceed with an initial plan to codevelop the next A110 with Lotus. But that doesn’t mean it’s breaking ties with Lotus altogether, as we’ll see later.
So what are the seven Alpines for 2030? The first is the A290, a production version of the A290B prototype we saw earlier this year. A hot hatch version of the new Renault 5 EV, it’s built on Renault’s CMFB-EV platform and goes on sale in 2024. That will be followed a year later by a C-segment crossover GT, and the all-new A110 in 2026, the year Alpine claims it will break even and make €2 billion in revenue.
Alpine doesn’t specify when the roadster version will arrive, but it could be either at the same time as the coupe, or a year later, in 2027. And a spider isn’t the only car spun off from the A110 coupe. The same platform will be stretched to create the A310, a four-seat sports coupe.
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The company says the final two cars in its “Dream Garage” are a pair of D- and E-segment vehicles, but declines to give away much more about them. But we already know that they’ll likely be two crossover SUVs, one built to take on the Porsche Macan, and another, the Cayenne, probably using platform and powertrain technology pinched from the Lotus Eletre and its upcoming little bother. Both of these Alpine SUVs be on sale by 2027.
They will be sold in Europe alongside the A290, A110, A310, and the small crossover GT, but they’re more important than all of those put together, because they’re the weapons Alpine will use to attack the U.S. and Asian markets for the first time, and will be key to it hitting some big financial targets. Alpine is forecasting over €8 billion in revenue in 2030, €1 billion of which will come from China if a planned launch there goes ahead.
Alpine also reminded us that while its seven-car 2030 lineup will be all-electric, it’s simultaneously pressing ahead with developing hybrid-powered internal combustion engine technology for its “exclusive sports models.” So look out for a hypercar along the lines of the 2022 Alpenglow concept arriving a decade from now.
Note: the first five images in the gallery below are Carscoops’ renders showing how future Alpine SUVs could look and are not endorsed by either Alpine or Renault
