► New Alpine A390 ‘sport fastback’ confirmed
► Announced via incoming A390_β show car
► Production model expected in 2025
Alpine has announced that a new show car will arrive at the 2024 Paris motor show named A390_β. The show car previews what it is calling a ‘sport fastback’ named A390, which is expected to launch 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. This teaser image included with the show car’s confirmation masks the lower half of the car’s silhouette.
Regardless, Alpine’s next model is on its way and it’ll enter a new segment for the brand. Sovany Ang, Alpine’s product performance 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.’
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Like A290’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 DRL signature at the front and what looks to be a sleek profile from the silhouette image.
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.