Alpine A390_β concept

The Alpine A390_β is the show car that Alpine presented ahead of the 2024 Paris Motor Show as the forerunner of its first electric sport fastback, whose production was to begin at Dieppe in 2025. Alpine invited guests to see it just before the show opened, and its makers insisted it was a sports car rather than a classic crossover, with a visual stance somewhere between a saloon and a coupe, five seats, a powerful front end, muscular lines and wheel rims designed to resemble snowflakes. The designers said its exterior was already about 85 percent identical to the production model, while the interior was deliberately left experimental, pairing hard bucket seats and a rectangular steering wheel at the front with a soft white rear bench. It is based on the AmpR Medium platform and was reported to use one battery and three electric motors, one driving the front axle and two the rear, with torque vectoring. Alpine gave few other technical figures at the time. The production A390 is a separate entry in this atlas.