I hope the Alpine A110 comes to the U.S., and with lots of dealers.

Some say it's better to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow. That's why I'd choose the Alpine. Or not.

You didn't answer the question you asked in the title...

Weight is the enemy! On the road a lightweight car with decent power will always be more fun than a heavy car with heaps of power. Power gets old, handling doesn’t.

No way a 570S can be 'ragged' or taken to the limit of grip safely on public roads.

What a video. Thank you Autocar for putting out quality content. McLaren is a stunning car but there's something so beguiling about that little Alpine....

One of the best Autocar's videos I've seen. Brilliant crossed analysis. Well done!

2 petrolheads, 2 brilliant cars, casual conversation, fantastic!

Great Comparsion Video. The Alpine A110 Is a great sports car

Lovely video and two great cars you chose, but I disagree with some of the comments from Dan. The A110 is a fun car and most people can take it closer to its limit than the 570S but that doesn't make it more desirable, it just makes the power more useable. Not many people can get the most out of a Porsche 911 Turbo S as it has so much power and grip, yet it is highly desirable. I recently bought an Alfa 4C for the exact reason you talked about, however, I wouldn't want that as my only car. Having a supercar appeals on lots of different levels. It is nice to have more than one car in the garage is my conclusion.

Eventhough they aren't competitive in the same market ...they both compete in GT4 spec racing ....take that into consideration

Recipe for a a McLaren that would really impress me: A smaller €100k car with the same tub stiffness, even more road focus (particularly no aero nonsense except a working diffusor) with a 3L V6 400 hp version of their current engine at 1.100 kg. 25 years ago, they already produced a car with that kind of weight, it even had a V12, 3 seats and a top speed of 240 mph.

Alpine A110 any time! Such a cute and nice Sportscar!

A110 vs Elise 220 or Exige 350 anyone?

next : Ferrari GT4 LUSSO Vs Dacia Sandero , which is the ultimate GT ?

The original A110’s engine noise was all Weber carbs induction noise

Great review. Autocar: The original and still the best. Thanks Dan and Matt

You are right flogging the hell out of a little car is more fun than frightening yourself every time you come out of a corner.

Not sure how you claim these put driving enjoyment first with both of the cars are automatics only. Give them a manual transmission option and then we can talk about them putting enjoyment over stats

I totally agree with their commentary around the 12 minute mark about how enjoyable it is driving a car right at the edge of it's limits. Here in the US I'll never get a chance to drive an Alpine, but driving a well balanced Mazda MX-5 is way more fun than driving a super car which performance envelope is so far beyond anything possible on the road that if you pass a cop pushing the envelope you'll end up in jail. There used to be some really good roads that were completely empty past midnight, now there's at least some traffic at all times so forget the law, I don't want to kill somebody getting my adrenaline fix.

I really like your duo reviews. I really do.

Renault can do really enjoyable sports cars on road. Megane 3 rs clio 2 and 3 rs

Really enjoyed that. Prosser is a cracking young journalist who I'm sure we will are only going to see more and more of going forward. Also worth noting he has put his money where is mouth is and bought his own A110. Mush be a cracking little car.

Conclusion! Alpine is a sports car which you will enjoy more on public roads, because it has less power but it is ultimately more rewarding, (on public roads)

Not sure whether the fact that McLaren is 3 times as expensive makes it a bargain or is the Alpine ridiculously expensive for what it is..

Great video and your views are so spot-on !! Thank you.

The Alpine A110 vs Evora 400 SHOULD'VE been the comparison test here!

No contest, Alpine looks much better. The blue is bluer, and it looks like it can get over a speed hump. It'll be more reliable too, as France is closer to Japan than Britain, and the French can design things to work at temperatures slightly move than 20 degrees Celsius.

Car journalists are the most guilty for that "movement" in the car industry that made the objective car performance seem like the priority. Stuff like 0-60, quarter miles, lap times, etc. All things that are TOTALLY irrelevant when you sit behind the wheel and literally play no role at all in your decision of how much you like a certain car or how good a certain car is, yet, the reviews are set up in such a way that it makes people believe a 0.4 seconds of a difference across a single lap between two cars is what makes one better than the other, which is utter horseshit. I've always said that cars are much more about the subjective qualities than the objective ones, and the subjective qualities are MUCH, MUCH more difficult to nail. Everyone can make a car that's quick in straight line or even on a track. Hell, a bunch of amateurs tune their cars in the garage with off the shelf parts and make them quicker than some stock sports cars, but that's not the point. Making a car that is subjectively great as well is totally different task. It goes way beyond using a stopwatch. Unfortunately, most people don't understand that, and even more unfortunately, many car manufacturers don't, so they often make cars in such a way that they put objective qualities above subjective ones, just so that they could have bragging rights and use them in their marketing campaigns and payed reviews. That is ridiculous to me, and it makes it seem as if it really is how people judge cars. There's a massive difference between how the vast majority of car reviewers judge cars and how the actual people who buy those cars judge them. It's as if you drove a car for 10 hours straights, really liked it, and then someone brought out a stopwatch, and then that stopwatch would make you decide whether what you felt for the past 10 hours was real or not. OF COURSE it was real. Yet, some people want you make you think otherwise and even make cars win comparison tests based on nothing but a tiny, insignificant difference in measured performance. Unfortunately many manufacturers are using that and getting away with building really shitty cars, that is especially true about American brands. All those Hellcats, Demons and other ridiculous cars are perfect examples of cars that appear amazing on paper but really are nothing but really bad cars with a lot of power and very grippy, overly wide tires.

thanks for your video and work, effectively A110 it's fun to drive and pleasure to use it every day, it's geeting more important those days in front of track performance. In a way that Alpine is a sort of drug, you want to drive it all day and night long.

Usually I'ma hardcore lover of naturally aspirated and manual cars, but I would just adore to have these two as my only fun cars

A110 v 570s , good video,but it seems to me Lotus is invisible, the Evora to me is an entry level McLaren 570 why not do that comparison..

I’ve had the opportunity to drive on of those Alpines and they are an absolutely amazing machine. I own a BMW M3 CS and I would swap it tomorrow if I didn’t have a family

do a head 2 head with porsche cayman , alpine, audi TT, GT86, and MX5

I agree as well, i've build a competition car which was still road legal. But I didn't enjoy it on the street anymore because the limit of grip wasn't approachable with some sanity of mind. It became a specialist tool for laptimes, not for enjoyment. Smaller and less grippy compound tyres allow for bigger slip angles and more often approachable limit and thus a drivers car.

excellent work guys

Don't quite get the comment around 5:00 "it's bringing down the accessibility of its performance" and naming it in the same sentence as the i30 N, MX-5 and GT86. I mean it is a great car but it's also more expensive than 718, so it's not exactly more accessible than that and as accessible as the other cars named.

Dan main Autocar's host ;) Love it

So wich one is the ultimate drivers car? (Knowing full and well that both are) but if you had to choose one?

Its very funny to see the passenger falling asleep while the driver speaks about the genious if the alpine car :))))

Alpine A110 is such an interesting car and I know there's a point to it's power etc but at over £50k.... it should really be at least 300hp. £50k... let's be honest it's a £40k car at most. Mind you saying that, the Alfa 4c, which is prettier imo is way toooo expensive also. Gutted they never made a stradale or cloverleaf or Quadrifolglio version of that. Here's to hoping Alpine make an RS or something of the A110 and open up the potential on that chassis and set up. I just couldn't bring myself to pay £50k at the moment for one when you can get an M2 for less with a straight 6

If only Alpine had invest all along 40 years we would have a french porsche brand since a long time with supercar

04:50 Word of truth for true enthousiasts of true sports cars.

We want a decently priced daily driver lightweight happy use sports car and NOT one of those over priced garage queens….no prizes for guessing which is which…

Great, can we get a triple test with the Alpine, Standard Cayman (PDK) and the TTRS?

Has anyone ever seen McLaren 540C?? I have never seen one video review of that car, I'm not sure it even exists.

Here's autocar, answering the question no one dared to ask, because we want neither to lose.

More sports cars need to be lighter with a focus on power to weight.

Arf it's so strange to see an Alpine with the wheel on the right side of the car !

New drinking game: For every it, its or it is take a pull. Cheers

B4001 near Lambourn?

I think Mat Watson @ Car Wow is one of the few automotive journalists to pronounce the name 'Alpine' correctly as an Englishman and English speaker.

This video underscores why, for me, “slow car fast” is always preferable over “fast car slow.” If you can’t use the cars abilities, what good are they? They just become irrelevant numbers.

When Porsche cut the Cayman's legs by making it a 4 cylinder they opened the market they had on lock forever. I wish they kept it, but you know, it cannot surpass the 911 blablablah

I have to say I find the alpine to be the prettiest. Those lines are really growing on me.

2 of the best driver’s cars and yet no manual box in either... 🤦🏻‍♂️

570S is simply THE prettiest MC but I know a few owners and the cars are basically always in the shop! Give me the Alpine!

Which car looks like every other car they've created?

These guys act like they are out on a date, I'm surprise they're not holding hands. LOL

675LT is still the best car McLaren have ever made

Nice blue paint colour...!!! 😀👌🔝

Why don't you put a golf gti in the mix? =)))

they are both 2 seat small coupes? the maclaren is not NOT small.. drive it through a french small village and see how small it is.....

Great idea.

Driving position of the alpine for me is a bit off

The alpine is three and a bit times more expensive than an Up GTI at just under £15K. I think that the Up GTI satisfies the criteria being used here.

I think Dan Prosser is onto something with his (apologetic) complaint about the passenger armrest - reviews might do well to consider the poor, under-represented passenger, even for sports cars. For every single owner with no friends, there are many couple owners, for whom long drives, swapping drivers along the way, are part of the fun of ownership. But not if the passenger seat is a rolling penalty box, with, for example, no foot room, weird sharp corners, and most common of all, more limited seat adjustment for the passenger than the driver. Bring on the passenger reviews...!

Maybe I’ll have to drive one because I don’t get the hype for auto, fat steering wheel and not that lightweight. A Honda S2000 better gearbox, better engine etc new was half the price of alpine (even adjusted for inflation, they were 20k pre-reg parallel import at one point.)

So the alpine is around the same price as an M2 competition....bit off topic I know but that alpine is rank

The A110 you could use most of the performance safely while the 570S you just wouldn’t get anywhere near using all it’s performance on the Road, so you could argue that you’d be better off with the A110.....

That's the road from Harry's garage

570s is one of the best car in McLaren, alpine is not bad at all.

McLaren colour is great

Doesn't the Apline keep exploding?...plus this is a little insulting to McLaren !

Ok how long will they last before banging on about some Porsche?

Maybe be no, the alpine is too fast to get near it’s limits on the public road so you need to find enjoyment elsewhere, in the outside shots you were mostly going slow and were you enjoying that? And as for the McLaren, don’t be silly, you used full power for max of 3 seconds and that took you well over the speed limit, it might be the most approachable McLaren but that’s not what you asked.

If those cars truly put pleasure before performance they would both have a MANUAL TRANSMISSION. End of story.

As long as there are 981 Cayman S avalible as good used ones, there will never be a reason to buy something like the Alpine! Thats just my opinion though...

Love my 570---no comparison

alpine vs cayman

Two the most emotional journalists now together:):) wake my up before the end;)

The one without all the nanny devices and a manual gearbox? Oh wait... And before the flaming starts, the question was "Driver's car...". Not fast car, fun car, track car, sports car or performance car.

It's more a of promotional video for the alpine than anything else.

570S on the limit on the public roads? Really

The annoying armrest in the Macca is exactly why I read/watch reviews

To be honest its nearly impossible to rag any car to its limit on public roads certainly not a 570bhp McLaren that'd annihilate the mid level supercars of just a few years prior- Gallardo, 458. Not even with the Alpine can u take that to its limit and if u think u can your either naive or now dead in a ditch. I have a 2002 1.25L fiesta and taking that to its limit would mean breaking many driving laws bar on motorways so the best drivers car is a Peugeot 205 gti or Clio Williams end of.

They're both blue! They're both blue!

Porsche lost the plot with the 4 cylinder Boxster/Cayman, that's my take from this video.

A110 accelerates like a McLaren next to a GT86.

You spent 10 min describing a Toyota 86

Blue = Blue. 4 lights > 2 lights. Conclusion. Alpine (cough. Renault) > Mc Laren

Die Farbe von 570s ist schön!!

Back end of the alpine looks really "meh". 570s is the best sports car out there at the moment. And despite having a TTv8 it has a very clean spirited sound.

autocar is selling mclarens now.

Great channel and that alpine is interesting but for me it's um...not very pretty. There. I said it.

Looks I like alpine . But as far as performance is consern both cars deliver's fantastic performance with difference experience.

U2 rock...😉🙋🏻‍♂️

like comparing a mazda miata to a bugatti veyron

At least compare it with the 540C, the cheapest McLaren.

Take two great cars, make a video about them that’s about as exciting to watch as a trip to B&Q. Takes some doing that. Kudos.