In collaboration with students
Alpine presents the A4810: an extreme concept supercar to be powered by hydrogen. The A4810 was drawn by students from the Instituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Turin and offers a preview of ‘how sporty the future will be’. Alpine doesn’t seem to have production plans.
‘A4810’ sounds a bit like a format in the copier at first glance, but the name does have a symbolic meaning. ‘4810’ is the height in meters of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps. Mont Blanc is also located between France and Italy and thus symbolizes the Italian-French cooperation on the A4810. The students of the IED were commissioned by Alpine to design a ‘super berlinette’ for the year 2035. They worked on it individually, after which Alpine made a selection and chose two ideas for the students to elaborate on. This eventually led to the A4810.
With a length of 5,091 and a width of 2,010 meters, the A4810 is quite a big boy. Its wheelbase measures 2,717 meters. In comparison, a Lamborghini Aventador, also a supercar, is 4.8 meters long and 2.03 meters wide with approximately the same wheelbase. In a teaser we already saw the mean-looking LED headlights, with the daytime running lights being a continuous stripe that is folded around the air intakes on either side. The cockpit of the A4810 is a low hood, mostly made of glass, that barely rises above the wheel arches. With a height of 1,055 meters, the A4810 is therefore extremely low.
Alpine A4810
The hood tapers towards the rear, two silver-coloured bars visually connect it to the rear wheel arches. At the rear of the slippery concept car are two inserts that presumably pass for exhausts. The taillights are two vertical thin transparent plates that sit closely together. The A4810 is to be powered by a ‘hydrogen powertrain’, but technical details are unknown. With the A4810 it is therefore mainly about the design. Alpine does not explicitly state that the supercar will not go into production, but this does not appear to be the case. According to Antony Villain, ‘Design Director’ at Alpine, the project with the students was above all a better way to ‘see the brand through the eyes of a younger generation’. It is therefore quite conceivable that certain design elements will return in production models later on.
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