Alpine News

Renault’s performance brand to return to Australia

By Jack Quick · 28 May 2025

After a four-year hiatus, Renault Group has confirmed the Alpine brand will be returning to Australian shores. Its first model since the A110 sports car that was sold locally from 2018 to 2022, will be the new A390 electric ‘coupe’ SUV that was revealed overnight in France.

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The most expensive four-cylinder car ever?

By Samuel Irvine · 15 Oct 2024

Alpine’s final version of its A110 Coupe will be its most powerful (and expensive) yet, as the French automaker fittingly bids ‘au revoir’ to its flagship model at the Paris motor show this week.

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Alpine's promising plenty from new A390

By John Law · 14 Oct 2024

Alpine has revealed a new A390 electric SUV concept that it promises is 80 per cent production ready.

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New performance electric car is coming

By Samuel Irvine · 09 Sep 2024

Renault’s performance subsidiary Alpine will reveal its first-ever electric SUV at the Paris auto show this October.

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Alpine revives Renault Sport spirit with A290

By John Law · 17 Jun 2024

Alpine revives Renault Sport spirit with A290

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Alpine’s electric hot hatch hero breaks cover

By Chris Thompson · 10 May 2023

France has a history of building some of the most widely revered hot hatches in the world, and it doesn’t look like the electric car era is going to change that. This is the spiritual successor to the Renault Clio Sport - the Alpine A290.

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Renault's EV future on full-charge for Oz!

By James Cleary · 14 Mar 2023

"Anything electric (Renault Group) builds in right-hand drive we will have our hand up for." So said Renault Australia General Manager, Glen Sealey, speaking to CarsGuide at a recent preview of the brand's pure-electric Megane E-Tech SUV, due for local launch in the fourth quarter of this year.

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Can Holden, Opel or others make a comeback?

By Stephen Ottley · 28 Aug 2022

Australia is often lauded as one of the most competitive new car markets in the world, with more than 40 brands fighting for slightly more than one million sales per year.

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Died too soon, or not soon enough?

By Tony O'Kane · 23 Jul 2022

Are these mercy killings, or the cruel hand of fate? Not all short-lived cars deserved to die young, but then again the candle that burns half as long doesn’t always burn twice as bright.

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What we know about Toyota's new MR2

By Stephen Ottley · 27 Feb 2022

Toyota has been teasing a new sports car for years and in December 2021 we got our best look yet at what's likely to be the all-new MR2.It was almost lost in the crowd as Toyota unveiled 17 electric concept cars on the same day, but the GR-badged, mid-eng

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