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French brand is returning to the market in 2016 with a sports model

The release of the model that marks the return of Alpine to the car market is getting closer and this weekend the brand unveiled the Celebration concept at Le Mans. The vehicle serves as a preview to the sports car that will be launched in 2016. ...

Cars will race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and ELMS

Alpine, and its parent Renault, announced today that the Alpine brand will return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2013. Obviously, there is no time for Alpine to develop its own car in time for the race in June; so the Signatech Team, which had prev...

Uses a darker blue than previous Alpine racers

Alpine left while it was on top. After over a decade of competition, it won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1978 and did not return, until this year. The new LMP2 Alpine will race in the European Le Mans Series and at Le Mans for the 2013 season. ...

Sports car model based on this concept will relaunch the Alpine brand in 2017

Renault unveiled a new concept that serves as a preview of the future model that will relaunch the historic French brand Alpine on the market next year. The Alpine Vision was presented at an event in Monte Carlo in order to evoke the successe...

The company made its return to motorsports this season

When the Signatech Racing team announced that it would become the Signatech-Alpine team for the 2013 European Le Mans Series, it came as a huge surprise. The team would run the same Oreca 03-Nissan that it had in the 2012 season but with Alpine br...

There was a rumor last week that Renault would reveal its Alpine-inspired concept at the Monaco Grand Prix. Nothing has been officially confirmed, but a rendering of the car has been created.  The concept is reported to use mid-mounted&nb...

According to aluminum producer Alcoa's director of automotive marketing Randall Scheps, he sees the demand for aluminum for cars doubling over the next decade.  Scheps told attendees at the American Metal Market's Aluminum Summit ...

The trucks will use Corvette engines and two-wheel drive platforms

Call it international cooperation. The French Eric Vigouroux Racing team and American Jefferies Racing team have teamed up to build prototype pickup trucks to race in the two-wheel drive class of the 2014 Dakar Rally. The teams will build two ...

When is it alright to improve on a classic? That is the question raised by the long wheelbase Jaguar E-Type commissioned by US owner Paul Branstead.  Branstead shipped his Series I Jaguar E-Type 4.2 Roadster to Classic Motor Cars Lim...

Each competing in a different class

We have already heard reports that Peugeot and Hyundai are preparing cars to attempt a new record up Pikes Peak in June, but American Honda is taking a very different approach. Instead of competing for the record, Honda's various American divi...