The Alpine A310 Is An Unfairly Forgotten French Sports Car Classic | Carscoops carscoops
and weren’t as fast with only a 125 hp four-cylinder 1.6-liter Renault motor to push them along. The slippery aerodynamics gave a decent 128 mph top speed, but zero to 60 mph in 8.6 seconds wasn’t going to set any speed, or sales, records.
For 1976 though, the A310 got serious about taking on the 911. Robert Opron, the French designer responsible for stunners like thewas drafted in to tweak the styling, and Alpine’s engineers, now working for Renault following Alpine’s take-over, dropped in a new 2.7-liter PRV V6, the result of a joint project by Peugeot, Renault and Citroën, whose initials gave the 90-degree motor its name.
Power increased to 148 hp and torque did even better out of the deal, jumping from 98 lb-ft to 150 lb-ft . The run to 62 mph now took 7.2 seconds and the top speed grew to around 135 mph , which was good enough to put it levelSales apparently increased as a result of the changes, but these cars are still relatively rare today.
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