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From an article in Car & Driver: Alpine is rethinking its plans to sell EV SUVs in America and is instead performing U.S. crash tests on its next-gen A110 sports car. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a70761864/alpine-a110-us-crash-tests-report/ ...  

The EV A110 will put 1400 kilos on the scale. There will most likely come a hybrid with petrol and battery, this one will only weigh 1500 kilos. Can you see the difference between the good and the bad news ? ;-)

120 hp for 850 kilos (Saxo VTR) 220 hp for 1230 likos (Clio RS) 300 hp for 1100 kilos (you know) My Megane has 280 hp for 1460 kilos and I agree it drives fabulous .... but not as fabulous as the cars above ;-) So a 1500 kilo A110 will also be fabulous, a... 

Body rigidity is important in a sports car.

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Will probably be to make sure the cup holders can take US size drinks

Let’s see what kind of volumes the next generation sells at. But if larger than the current one the US market would be a good bet indeed 👌🏻

If EU is stuck with an electric and only the US get a internal combustion engine!

Hybrid may be the way forward.

An exotic **EV** or low-ish end hybrid in the USA is destined to fail imho... like Jaguar... but only worse as 'mericans don't know Alpine at all. Reminds me of when they tried selling the Merkur XR4Ti in the States. Would say it's time to short Renault s... 

The issue I've always had with these cars in the USA is the limited dealer and service network. The same would be true for Alpine. That said, if the cars are that good, I could see enthusiasm building, even a cult following. One key question is reputation... 

Hope they can break into USA.... but even Lotus......

much like I will when I get around to trying to sell my Lotuses

My 1980s coke dealer in SoFlorida had an all-white Merkur....... somehow it all made sense back then

But mostly likely, as with Lotus it will be a weakly supported orphan