► New Alpine A390 ‘sport fastback’ spied
► Previewed by A390_β show car
► Production e-crossover expected in 2025
These new spyshots afford our best glimpse yet of the new 2025 Alpine A390 – a sporting, coupe-flavoured crossover that’ll stretch the French brand further away from its lightweight sports car roots.
It’s the production iteration of the Alpine A390_β concept that’s expected at this autumn’s 2024 Paris motor show. The show car will preview what it is calling the ‘sport fastback’ A390, which is expected to launch for customers in 2025.
The brand has been deliberate to call the A390 something that’s not an SUV, despite previous teaser images of Alpine’s ‘dream garage’ showing something that actively looks taller than the A110 sports car and A290 hatchback.
Our latest spy photos prove that talk of a fastback silhouette is accurate; this appears to be a more dynamic shape that’ll appease those worried that Alpines should not be boxy and squared-off.
Will such a teardrop profile impinge on practicality though? Stay tuned as we follow the A390’s development through to production…
Our spy photos are in line with the earlier teaser image below, issued earlier in 2024 to whet our appetites for the car’s French debut.
The swooping roofline is consistent with the prototypes we’ve spied undergoing shakedown tests. BMW X6: you have much to answer for…
Alpine’s next model marks the expansion of the niche brand into a new, bigger-selling segment. Sovany Ang, Alpine’s product performance boss, says the A290 and upcoming A390 are ‘designed to give [Alpine] a proposition to redefine the sportiness that we believe in at Alpine.
‘We are increasing the brand footprint beyond the two-seater coupe segment.’
CAR magazine has already published an artist’s impression by Lars Sältzer of the A390 (above), as imagined without camo. Like the A290 electric hot hatchback’s nomenclature, the first digit implies the size of the car while the ‘90’ part points to ‘the brand’s versatile and everyday use vehicles.’
Official intel is sparse, but we do know that the A390 will feature a revised version of Alpine’s day-running light (DRL) signature at the front and what looks to be a sleek profile to inject some dynamism into the design.
It’s very likely that the A390 could use some engineering derived from Renault Group’s Ampr Medium (formerly CMF-EV) platform, the same one used by the Renault Scenic and Nissan Ariya. But, like the A290’s modifications and upgrades versus a standard Renault 5’s Ampr Small platform, expect some Alpine-spec engineering to be applied to the new A390.