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The Alpine’s beauty is in its economy of size, weight, and power train. Like a dachshund or Jack Russell terrier, the A110 was purpose-built to fight well above its weight. And that weight was minimal—less than 1,600 pounds—thanks to a fiberglass body over a steel-backbone chassis. Its underpinnings were from Renault, including the rear-mounted inline-four engine that grew in displacement and power output—from 1.0 liter and only 51 hp, to 1.65 liters and up to 180 hp—by the end of A110 production.
Everything is smaller in the A110 world, where the original’s 13-inch wheels use only three lug bolts. By the 1970s, the model’s 1.6-liter Renault R16 TS engine—given twin Weber carburetors and shoved way in the back of the vehicle—made about 125 hp and 106 ft lbs of torque. That output was good for giving the model a factory-claimed zero-to-60 mph time of 6.3 seconds and a top speed of 130 mph.
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