- Alpine’s A310 sports car has been spied testing in Scandinavia.
- The future Porsche 911 competitor will be a 2+2 electric coupe.
- Alpine is using a French Ligier JS2 R racecar as a chassis mule.
We’re only two months away from the reveal of Alpine’s new A390 crossover, but in the background, France’s answer to Porsche is working on another A3-branded car and our spy photo team has caught it testing.
The car is the A310, which will sit above the next A110 and attempt to steal sales away from Porsche’s 911, much as the original A310 tried to do in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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And given its 911-beating remit, you might not be too surprised that the vehicle in these spy shots is a low-slung sports car with scissor doors and a huge motorsport-style rear wing. But don’t pay too much attention to what you see, because the A310 won’t look anything like it.
The A310 is at such an early stage of development Alpine is using a mule to test its new two-plus-two coupe. And the car it’s using as a mule appears to be a Ligier JS2 R, a purpose-built racecar that’s – like the Alpine – built in France but is not homologated for road use.
Ligier supplies its fiberglass-bodied JS2 Rs with a Ford V6, but Alpine’s engineers will have junked that powertrain, if the chassis they received was ever fitted with any go parts. Providing the motive force instead is an all-electric setup that the spray of snow powder coming from each of the four corners reveals is all-wheel drive.
The real A310, due in 2028, will ride on a stretched version of the Alpine Performance Platform also destined for the smaller A110, and believed to be the basis for the Renault 5 Turbo 3E mega hatch revealed earlier this week.
Although this mule seen testing with the brand’s A290 hot hatch doesn’t give us any clues as to the exterior design of the A310, it seems logical to presume it will share characteristics with the A390 crossover and the Alpenglow hypercar concept, including a full-width light bar, plunging nose, through-body aero tricks and a raised spine running from nose to tail.
We’ve included a few pics of the JS2 R from Ligier’s website in the gallery below.
