Alpine has revealed an artistic sculpture that hints at the bodywork of the third-generation A110 without showing it outright. A blue veil draped over a hidden volume is meant to let the proportions and surfacing of the coming sports car be read while the details stay hidden. The piece will be a centrepiece of Alpine’s stand at the Paris Motor Show, which opens on 12 October.
Alpine is taking an unusual route to its next big product reveal. Rather than a camouflaged prototype or a teaser photo, the French brand has produced a sculpture: a body form covered by a blue veil, appearing to levitate, from which the shapes of the third-generation A110 are meant to emerge. The company describes it as an artistic vision of how its designers interpret tomorrow’s A110, and says the draping technique is a tool designers genuinely use when exploring themes and proportions — covering a body to make its intentions readable rather than to hide them.
It is a significant moment for the brand. According to Alpine, this is only the second time in its 71-year history that its icon is being renewed, and each generation is meant to reflect its own era. The current A110 arrived in 2017; the car that replaces it will be the third to carry the name.
Built on the new APP platform
The next A110 will sit on the all-new APP — Alpine Performance Platform — which the brand unveiled earlier this year during Renault Group’s FutuREady plan presentation. That architecture has already been seen running: in July, a development mule called Alpine A110 FUTURE ran in front of the public at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, wearing bodywork based on the current car but stretched to cover the APP platform’s new dimensions.
Alpine has not released technical specifications for the production car alongside the sculpture — no power, performance, battery or pricing figures accompany this announcement.
Concorde and the sound barrier as reference points
The company says the blue veil is intended to read as a point of tension at the moment it is caught by the wind, suggesting lightness and aerodynamics. One of the stated inspirations is Concorde, which Alpine frames as a symbol of French technological excellence, and specifically the instant the sound barrier is broken — described by the brand as a suspended moment charged with energy.
Beneath the fabric, Alpine points to design cues carried over from the original Berlinette and the current car: a V-shaped front-end treatment, a dual light signature, side modelling derived from the evocation of movement but more sculptural than before, and a contrast between tense and curvaceous volumes. The silhouette is defined by a beltline running from a shark-nose front end down to a lowered rear, with a teardrop-shaped cabin capsule set between four pronounced wheel arches and a narrow waist.
What it means
As a communication exercise, the sculpture buys Alpine time: it signals continuity of the A110’s proportions to an audience that cares deeply about them, while holding back the hard information buyers and rivals will want. The brand has been expanding quickly around the A110 — the A290 hot hatch launched in 2024 and the A390 fastback followed in 2025 — so the next A110 arrives as the halo model of a broader range rather than a standalone niche product.
For now, the sculpture is the only public statement on how the car will look. It goes on display at the Paris Motor Show from 12 October.
Source: media.alpinecars.com