Alpine A290.

[LenEV2016]

Different laws here, they could try and get you with a couple.
Carless driving or even give you and asbo for traffic light racing, get two and they just take your car.

 

[JonnyG]

Seems a bit harsh to me. An RS6 with AWD is pretty safe off the lights in normal conditions. The cop must have been a real or seen something else IMHO.

 

[Chrisdriving]

I think he was going on it being a 30 limit, there were crossings on the lights, other cars may just miss the red their way and run the lights, zooming off on amber/green could ‘cause’ an accident.
Dunno i know he challenged it and lost.

 

[JonnyG]

Amber gambling I could accept

 

[tsedge]

I see this week a lot of the car reviewers are releasing their take on the Alpine A290. They have obviously had it drummed into them by Alpine that a fun car is not all about speed (especially as the 0-60 time is 6.4s). So all the reviews are about handling on twisty roads and the fact that a 200 mile range is OK as it has kept the weight of the car down.

Thing is, this does seem to go against the kind of things they were saying about the XPower where it's 0-60 time of under 4s made it not a hot hatch and the fact it had far less range than a Tesla went against it.

EV's have turned the market upside down and not only have the manufacturers not caught on to the brave new World, the reviewers also need to do some catching up (as would an A290 driver chasing an XPower)

I'm sort of with them in the sense that fun isn't about ridiculous 0-60 times, it is about how much of the power you can use on normal roads. But then, with modern EVs there's really no excuse for FWD, the 5 should be lighter and RWD. Anything around 6s 0-60 is fast enough in my book but there's a lot more to making a car fun.

Range shouldn't come in to it and their criticisms of the XPower were around it being a one-trick-pony, which I didn't think was inaccurate given how little MG modified the handling and brakes and seats.

For me the A290 is significantly overpriced for what it is.