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Alpine bids farewell to petrol engines in style with the wild and wonderful A110 R Ultime – join Rory for a final blast!
Words by: Dan Trent
Published on 19 November 2025 | 0 min read
A small French sports car costing more than a Lamborghini? Yes, you heard that right. And it doesn’t make any more sense when you learn more about the car in question.
It’s the Alpine A110 R Ultime. Which, just like any other Alpine A110, has a 1.8-litre engine. And just 345 horsepower. Which is about a third of the firepower you’d get in the Lamborghini Temerario you could have for less money. How does that work? To try and find out Rory takes a trip to a circuit where Alpine has enjoyed some of its greatest successes – Le Mans. Over the decades the firm has raced to glory in a variety of delicate-looking lightweight prototypes, scoring class victories for efficiency and innovation along the way as well as an overall win in 1978. That less-is-more tradition reaches its climax in this Ultime version of the A110 R, a car soon to be reborn in fully-electric form alongside its battery-powered A290 hot hatchand A390 crossover brothers. Alpine clearly wanted to give the combustion-engined A110 a proper send-off, mind. Which is what Rory is driving here. Does it compute, though? Strap in alongside Rory to find out! And when you’re done if you haven’t subscribed to the channel already make sure you do so and hit the bell to be notified of when the next one goes live!
It’s the Alpine A110 R Ultime. Which, just like any other Alpine A110, has a 1.8-litre engine. And just 345 horsepower. Which is about a third of the firepower you’d get in the Lamborghini Temerario you could have for less money. How does that work? To try and find out Rory takes a trip to a circuit where Alpine has enjoyed some of its greatest successes – Le Mans. Over the decades the firm has raced to glory in a variety of delicate-looking lightweight prototypes, scoring class victories for efficiency and innovation along the way as well as an overall win in 1978. That less-is-more tradition reaches its climax in this Ultime version of the A110 R, a car soon to be reborn in fully-electric form alongside its battery-powered A290 hot hatchand A390 crossover brothers. Alpine clearly wanted to give the combustion-engined A110 a proper send-off, mind. Which is what Rory is driving here. Does it compute, though? Strap in alongside Rory to find out! And when you’re done if you haven’t subscribed to the channel already make sure you do so and hit the bell to be notified of when the next one goes live!