Alpine A390

Can France’s Formula 1-grade sports car brand successfully turn its hand to a sporty electric crossover? The Alpine A390 is the car to put the ‘big’ into its maker’s latest strategy for big-time commercial success. It’s the second new-model installment in Alpine's plan to have a ‘dream garage’ of four all-electric performance cars on sale by 2030. And it might well have more sales potential than any of them, because, of all of its sibling models extant and forthcoming, this is ‘the practical one’.More specifically, this is a five-seat, four-door, high-rise C-segment hatchback with a roomy boot and a four-wheel-drive powertrain as standard. It’s precisely the kind of car that other brands might call a crossover or SUV, although Alpine prefers not to - which is revealing enough itself about the positioning that the company is aiming for here.Like the A290 hot hatchback before it, the A390 uses a shared Renault Group platform - but it builds in plenty of special hardware all of its own. Enough, in fact, to make it the first tri-motor performance EV in its class, as well as the first four-wheel-drive car in Alpine’s history.So what might fully asymmetrical torque vectoring, new dimensions in electric performance and new levels of space and everyday usability be about to do for the Alpine brand?

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