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Alpine A110 Rally Now Available To Order For Privateer Racing Teams

First came the road-going A110, then Alpine developed Cup and GT4 versions for the racing portfolio. The Rally is the latest model to come out of Dieppe, and as you can tell from a decal on the steering wheel, the privateer racing car has been designed and developed by Signatech.
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Known as Signatech Alpine Matmut in the 2018-19 world endurance championship, the team currently competes with an LM2 prototype racing car with a standardized powertrain in the guise of the Gibson 4.2-liter naturally aspirated V8. The rear-engined A110 Rally, by comparison, takes its mojo from a 1.8-liter turbo four-cylinder with “more than 300 horsepower.”

That translates to more suck-squeeze-bang-blow than the A110S, the most powerful iteration of the road-going berlinette. The rally-prepped car has been designed to compete pretty much everywhere in the world, but there’s a notable exception to highlight in the form of the United States.

A six-speed sequential transmission connected to a limited-slip differential, homologated roll cage, Sabelt bucket seats and six-point harnesses, Brembo brakes, Bosch motorsports ABS, paddle shifters, an integrated display for the steering wheel, adjustable traction control, and an FT3 homologated fuel cell with 65 liters of capacity are a few of the main specifications.

Options and accessories include data acquisition systems and the Alpine Blue paintwork featured in the photo gallery. Pricing excluding VAT before options? Make that 150,000 euros, translating to roughly three examples of the A110 Pure with value-added tax. Gulp, that’s expensive!

“The A110 Rally demonstrates genuine rally qualities while being a pleasurable car with uncompromising performances,” said Philippe Sinault, the director of Signatech. “This return to rallying is highly anticipated as Alpine made history when it won the first-ever world rally championship in 1973,” added Regis Fricotte, commercial and competition director at Alpine.

Two French rally drivers – Emmanuel Guigou and Laurent Pellier – will do the majority of the development for the A110 Rally. For the time being, reliability and getting the basic settings right are of utmost importance.
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After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well.
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