Alpine A310 brings back fond memories

Declan Colley takes a look back at the Alpine A310, a car of unique Gallic charm

This week here at Examiner Motoring, we are taking a somewhat unusual look in our rear-view mirror at a car which never sold by the shed-load – here or anywhere else – but which we still look back at with a fondness energised by what was and still remains a very sexy and very quick French beast.

The car in question is the Alpine A310 which in itself was quite a rakish thing, but when it gestated into the GTA version became something else altogether – something which the French themselves might have lauded as ‘épique’ or ‘héroïque.’