Alpine GT4

The Alpine GT4 was a four-seat sports coupe that the French maker Alpine sold from the end of 1962 until 1969, when it was withdrawn from the catalogue. Jean Redele added it to a range of two-seaters so that the marque had a car which could carry four people more or less comfortably. It took the lines of the new A110 Berlinette but kept the front of the A108, and it ran on the rear-engined Renault 8 powertrain on a central backbone chassis lengthened to a wheelbase of 2,270 mm, with a body in plastic material. The first cars used the 956 cc Renault 8 engine and later ones the 1,108 cc Caravelle unit and Gordini and Mignotet-tuned engines of up to 1,296 cc. Chappe et Gessalin, the coachbuilder behind the first Alpine, built it. Only 263 were made, and about 120 more were assembled in Mexico under the Dinalpin name. After the Berlinette it was the longest-running car Alpine made.