Alpine (auto)" redirects here. For the Sunbeam auto model, see Sunbeam Alpine. For the Chrysler car or truck model, see Simca 1307.Alpine is a France manufacturer of racing along with sports cars that applied rear-mounted Renault engines.Jean Rédélé, the founder of Alpine, was originally a Dieppe storage area proprietor, who began to obtain considerable competition success in one of the few French cars produced just after the Second World Battle. The company was obtained in 1973 by Renault. Production of Alpine products ceased in 1995 and you will find plans to relaunch the marque from 2017 onwardsUsing Renault 4CVs, Rédélé gained class wins in several major events, including the Mille Miglia and Coupe des Alpes. As his experience with all the little 4CV built way up, he incorporated many adjustments, including for example, special 5-speed gearboxes replacing the initial 3-speed unit. To provide a lighter car he built quite a few special versions with lightweight aluminium bodies: he drove in most of these at Le Mans and also Sebring with some success inside the early 1950s.Encouraged by the development of these cars and consequent consumer demand, he founded the Société Anonyme des Automobiles Alpine in 1954. The firm was branded Alpine after his Coupe des Alpes achievements. He did not appreciate that in England the prior year, Sunbeam had introduced a sports coupe produced by the Sunbeam Talbot and called the Sunbeam Alpine. This naming problem has been to cause problems intended for Alpine throughout its historical past.
Details over Alpine Renault A110 1600S, rot, 1:18, Kyosho
In 1955, he worked with the Chappe brothers to become amongst the pioneers associated with auto glass fibre construction and produced a little coupe, based on 4CV mechanicals in addition to called the Alpine A106. It used the platform chassis in the original Renault 4CV. The A106 achieved several successes through the 1950s and was joined by way of low and stylish cabriolet. Styling for this car was contracted towards the Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti. Under the glassfibre body was an incredibly stiff chassis based using a central tubular backbone which was to be the hallmark coming from all Alpines built.Alpine then took the actual Michelotti cabriolet design in addition to developed a 2+2 closed coupe body for it: this became the Alpine A108, now featuring the Dauphine Gordini 845 cc engine, which on later types was bored out to give a capacity of 904 closed circuit or) 998 cc. The A108 was built between 1958 and 1963In 1962, the A108 began to be produced also in Brazil, by Willys-Overland. It was the Willys Interlagos (berlineta, coupé and convertible).Willys Interlagos Berlineta, the Brazilian A108By now the car's mechanicals were start to show their age throughout Europe. Alpine was already doing work closely with Renault so when the Renault R8 saloon ended up being introduced in 1962. Alpine redeveloped their chassis and made a number of minor body changes to allow the application of R8 mechanicals.This new car was the A110 Berlinette Tour de France, named after a successful run while using the Alpine A108 in the 1962 event. Starting with a 956 cc engine of 51 bhp (38 kW), the same chassis along with body developed with relatively minor changes over the years to the stage exactly where, by 1974, the little car has been handling 1800 cc machines developing 180 bhp (134 kW)+. With a competition weight to the car of around 620 kg (1, 367 lb), the performance was superb.Alpine achieved increasing success in rallying, and by 1968 were being allocated the whole Renault rivalry budget. The close collaboration allowed Alpines to become sold and maintained with France by normal Renault dealers. Real top level success started in 1968 with outright wins inside the Coupe des Alpes and other international events. By this time your competitors cars were fitted using 1440 cc engines based on the Renault R8 Gordini. Competition successes became numerous, helped since Alpine were the 1st company fully to exploit competition parts homologation rules.
Alpine A11050 modelcar, Norev 1:18 in blue owned by 39;mukuendig39;
Inside 1971, Alpine achieved a 1-2-3 finish inside Monte Carlo rally, using cars with engines resulting from the Renault 16. In 1973, they repeated the 1-2-3 Monte Carlo result and proceeded to win the Entire world Rally Championship outright, beating Porsche, Lancia and Ford. During all of on this occasion, production of the Alpine A110 improved and manufacturing deals were struck for A110s along with A108s with factories in many other countries including Italy, Mexico, Brazil and Bulgaria.1973 brought the worldwide petrol crisis, which had profound consequences on many specialist vehicle manufacturers worldwide. From a total Alpine production of 1421 in 1972, the numbers of vehicles sold dropped to 957 in 1974 and the company was bailed out by way of a takeover by Renault. Alpine's problems had also been compounded by the need to allow them to develop a replacement with the A110 and launch the car just when European petrol prices leapt from the roof.Through the 1970s, Alpine continued to advertising campaign the A110, and later the Alpine A310 alternative car. However, to compete with Alpine's achievements, other manufacturers developed progressively special cars, notably the Lancia Stratos that was based closely on this A110's size and rear-engined concept, though incorporating a Ferrari serp. Alpine's own cars, still based on the actual 1962 design and utilizing a surprising number of production parts, became increasingly uncompetitive. In 1974 Alpine built a few factory racing Renault seventeen Gordinis (one powered by Jean-Luc Thérier) which won the Press in Regardless World Rally World-class round in Michigan, USA.
Alpine A108 Cabriolet in Metallic Blue 1:18 scale by OttOmobile OT063
The truth is, having achieved the move championship, and with Renault money now fully behind them, Alpine had set their sights on a new target. The next aim ended up being to win at Le Mans. Renault had also absorbed the Gordini tuning firm and merged the two to form Renault Sport. A number of progressively more successful sports racing automobiles appeared, culminating in the 1978 Le Mans win with all the Renault Alpine A442B. This was fitted having a turbo-charged engine; Alpine had been the 1st company to run in and win a global rally with a turbo car dating back to 1972 when Jean-Luc Thérier had taken a specially modified A110 to victory on the Critérium des Cévennes.1971 also saw Alpine begin construction of open steering wheel racing cars. Initially in Formula Three just a year they were creating Formula Two cars too. [4] Unfortunately without a new competitive Renault Formula A couple of engine available the F2 automobiles could neither be known as Renaults or Alpines whilst powered by Ford-Cosworth and also BMW engines and have been labelled Elf 2 as well as later Elf 2J. A Renault 2. 0 litre engine arrived in time for Jean-Pierre Jabouille to be able to win the European Formulation 2 Championship in 1976. By this time Alpine with Jabouille driving had designed a Formula One car as being a testing mule which lead right to their entry into the actual Formula One world tournament in 1977. A second European Formulation 2 championship followed together with René Arnoux in 1977 while using the customer Martini team, before Alpine sold your F2 operation to Willi Kauhsen to give full attention to the Le Mans along with Formula One programs.
