The most promising missing link between A610 and new A110 predated these cars, however, starting life in 1989 under the codename W71. Responsibility for this project was given to Alpine’s Dieppe-based design and engineering offshoot, Berex, the unsung heroes of fast French cars.
Except, actually, project W71 didn’t die off altogether, because its promising pairing of bespoke aluminium chassis and lusty F7R engine was salvaged from the abandoned Alpine project and used for a model that did make it to the showroom: the Renault Sport Spider. Doubling down on the A710’s minimalism by lopping off the roof and windscreen turned out to be the unlikely solution to getting it past product planners.
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