I’ll be waiting for better pictures and other angles to make my mind up, because I don’t have many nice things to say about what I’m seeing here.

I suppose so too. And the Alpines will have no Renault branding whatsoever.

It’s a throwback to the old cars.

Ghosn confirmed it will be built in Dieppe.

Well by the time the Alpine is out I hope for Nissan’s sake they’ll have a new Z.

Well yeah, why not? Just paint a corner blue with a big white A and Bob’s your uncle.

I hope they do offer plenty of interior colour choices. Too many brands go the easy route on only offer black cloth and black leather. Thankfully the new head of Alpine is a former Rolls-Royce and Bentley marketing guy so I think he understands that.

RS01 is a Renault Sport. No connection AT ALL to this Alpine.

It’s a brand new platform for Renault, it’s not completely far-fetched to imagine that they would have engineered it with US-regulations in mind. It’s what Alfa did for the 4C, sort of.

Nah, they could just sell it at Nissan dealerships!

Ahah, oh come on! Okay, I see where you’re coming from, the 200 has the same bar-of-soap overall smoothness, but it’s still a little far-fetched!

No. It’s not an exact copy of the rear of the Audi A7. It literally isn’t. It’s similar in the sense that they both slope down, have thin lights and a little spoiler. That’s it, and none of these were invented by the A7. In fact have a look at the slopping rear of the original Alpine A110 and you’ll see that the…

Second trimester of 2017.

So far 4C, TT, Cayman, 911, Beetle, Chrysler 200. Honestly I can’t even tell it apart from all these other cars, they literally all look exactly the same. The car industry is so lazy these days, I mean it’s only the colour, headlights, size, silhouette, proportions, lines, windows, height, width, overall shape and…

Bit smaller maybe, no rear seats as far as I know.

It’ll probably be considerably easier to live with than a 4C.

AS110? Methinks the traditional Alpine nomenclature with an A and three numbers didn’t leave them enough room for other product lines.

If this is where Chris Harris will work his magic from now on, I won’t be able not to watch.

I’m a bit speechless, this is fantastic.

Maybe so, but unfortunately being in the heart of enthusiasts is not necessarily the way to financial success.