Upcoming hot Renault designs to wear Alpine badges
new Renault CEO Luca de Meo has verified that future hot Renault designs will wear Alpine badges, exposing that a new generation of hot designs from the French business is on the horizon.
“As I did with Cupra, I will discover a point of get in touch with between the Alpine brand as well as some Renault models,” de Meo told automobile Express. “We requirement to be reliable on that, so I’m not going to do that with Kangoo or Espace – I’m going to do that with things that in shape the positioning of the brand.”
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That might indicate that the new Renault Clio – currently without a hot Renaultsport version in its line-up – might be one of the very first Renaults to get the new sub-branding, with the Captur potentially complying with it to create a rival to the new Ford Puma ST.
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De Meo is setting up Alpine as a new service system headed by present Renault F1 team managing director Cyril Abiteboul. It will comprise the F1 team (set to be rebranded Alpine from Renault for the 2021 season), the Renaultsport engineering service (described by de Meo jokingly as “a tribe of freaks doing extremely special stuff”) as well as the historic aspects of the Alpine brand.