{"id":61881,"date":"2021-02-02T16:39:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=61881"},"modified":"2021-02-16T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T08:54:46","slug":"50-years-of-alpine-a310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/50-years-of-alpine-a310\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of Alpine A310"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the beginning of 1971, the French sports car manufacturer Alpine added the newly developed A310 to its range. It was just the fourth road car in the brand’s history after the A106, A108 and the A110, which was very successful in rallying. The latter remained in the program parallel to the A310. At the same time, this was the last project developed under company founder Jean R\u00e9d\u00e9l\u00e9. From 1973, Renault gradually took over the majority shares in the company. In 1978, R\u00e9d\u00e9l\u00e9 sold his remaining shares and stepped down as Chairman of the Board. Thus the cars first traded under the name Alpine Renault and from the 1980s as Renault Alpine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2+2 seat concept difficult to implement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Development of the Alpine A310 began as early as 1968. Compared to the very sporty A110, the new model was to be a comfortable sports coup\u00e9. The team around chief engineer Richard Bouleau envisaged a 2+2-seater concept for this, but it proved difficult to implement. Similar to the Porsche 911, there is little headroom in the rear. Nor was there room for the legs or reasonably long seat cushions. Instead, there are two deep recesses where the occupants have to remain in a froggy position. To save a little money, the development team took the central tubular frame from the A110 GT4, the slightly extended four-seater version. The driven rear axle was basically taken from the Renault 8, but came with double wishbones instead of a swing axle concept. The four-cylinder power unit was taken from the Renault 16 TS. Actually, Jean R\u00e9d\u00e9l\u00e9 wanted to use the new PRV-V6 engine (developed by P<\/strong>eugeot, R<\/strong>enault and V<\/strong>olvo) originally. However, this hadn’t been ready in time. So he had to go with plan B.<\/p>\n\n\n

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