Alpine A110 GT - wet & twisty roads
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- čas přidán 1. 09. 2023
- ⚠️ The roads are always guarded, we never drive in an open traffic! Drive safe everyone and train on racetracks first!
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We love the Alpine A110 for its timeless sexy design, light weight, smart details and thoughtful technical solutions. It's not nor it is not meant to be a sharp sports car for driving at the limit. It feels best on winding mountain roads with smooth asphalt, where it can handle elegant powerslides despite the absence of a mechanical LSD. But you have to have the right engine speed and overcome the turbo lag. The transition to oversteer is typically quick, as with all cars with a rear-mid engine, but easy to feel and expect.
If you drive on a smooth road, you can enjoy very fast and precise steering with great work of the chassis. The chassis set up in the GT version is the same as the basic A110. However both the engine and transmission have software from the more powerful A110 S. This creates a really good combo! - Sport
Bloody fantastic car and driver!! Hats off
Just straight up my favourite current produciton car period.
be careful friend. I used to drive hard like this until I realized the consequences. Shit happens and trees don't move. Don't die please!
These cars really come alive when someone experienced drives them. Nice badass driving you know the roads really well
Very underrateed car! Great driving as always.
underrated channel
the pov I was searching for, fantastic driving
Now this is driving
Amazing channel. One of very few where you see that driving matters. No silly reading through tech specs (one can check them) and no opinions on design (one can see by himself). It's great.
It looks ugly though. A sport car needs to look sportingly sharp, not dull like this. 🤣
you are stupid @@JohnKickboxing
@@JohnKickboxingalpine the best champion World rallye Porsche zéro BMW zéro Mercedes zéro Volkswagen zero 😅😅😅
What a hell of a car ! Before clicking i would have swear that you'll be sliding 90% of the video but I'm glad I've been proving wrong
Drove the GT last week.... A total blast
Talk about drive it like you stole it! Fabulous little car! Great driving .
Good run
I cannot believe roads like this exist.
Pěkná jízda. Nejvíc ti závidím tu volnou silnici, byl jsem dnes na houbách, najezdil jsem tak 50 km, ale volnou silnici jsem měl jen asi 2x3 km.
Nice. This new Alpine is so nimble.
Fantastic drive! Would love to see you in an Audi TTS 😅😁
Great! Was this more fun than M3 CS run? Also can't wait to see you drive Emira or Elise Cup.
In my opinion in this roads small and light cars are always faster and more fun than a heavy saloon with too much power.
On a racetrack the m3cs maybe is more fun and of course faster
@@LorenzoClara97 Yes if I had money I would buy Emira, Cayman or something like that, rather than M4
What fos settings du you use?
if you will leave it in the same sport mode but allow it to shift yourself you will found it will shift better than you, also this vid show pretty clear how grippy the chassis is especially compared to other cars you recorded like Yrais GR or GR86 thats slide much more than this one, you should find for a test a new Emira from Lotus! ;)
also if you will it in auto in sport mode the boost transitions will be way smoother plus this car has a proper low rpm torque so most of the time the transmission feels as monolite power outcome without interruptions ;)
Would you please also make this type of videos with footcams on manual transmission cars?
They have. Check out the Supra
@@TuddecBMW thanks
Kde se prosím 🤩nachází taková krásná okreska ?
I wish we got these in the US. We're only gonna get the ev ☹️
Lol, cause you think we’re not gonna get full EV in Europe as well? These morons are lobbying it so much, specially the dumb French government. Paving the road for the Chinese automakers to kick their own asses
Such a cool car but shame there not selling many
Cool for me that I have one tho, I think they will be collector cars
Can't crack those videos. Are you some ex race driver and are those closed roads?
Looks a bit pushy - did you do anything (alignment/sway bar adjustments) prior to filming?
greasy road probably
@@arekb5951 low coefficient of friction doesn't alter the balance of the car, just lowers the grip thresholds.
@@chuckfdanger it does change the car balance, since you have less grip you don't load the tyres as much, in result you don't utilise the front camber nearly as much resulting in smaller contact patch, resulting in even less grip. That's only one of the examples.
Alpine the best in the World Champion rallye
How would you compare A110GT with Supra 3l A/T and Z4 M A/T? It's for mountain twisties and snow fun. Thanks.
The supra is more GT and the Alpine is more sports car, the Alpine is the better driving car by a big margin but the supra is better to daily drive I think and more comfy
Which one did you like more in the road? S or GT?
FFS I used to think I was a decent driver 😢 really brave going next to trees.
Nice drive. What did you do at 1:48?
the surrounding hill or whatever reflects the sound that's why it sounded different i think
He opened the window on the left side.
Mě to bez toho SPORT módu příjde strašně nudný koukání :-D
needs manual
NO
The front of that car looks like a Hyundai Tiburion
You have obviously not seen one in the flesh. Looks much better than in pics or videos
I suspect a true LSD would help it rotate a touch more smoothly and consistently but what a car 🫱🏾🫲🏽
LSD in a relatively low power mid engine lightweight RWD car can have the exact opposite effect of what you get in a heavier high power front engine RWD car - it can make the car more understeery. Lotus didn't fit LSD's in most Elises because of that - open diff made the car more nimble and easy to handle.
@@arekb5951 if you used a helical style diff you can bypass the downsides and get pretty much all the benefits. I have a quaife LSD in my M240i and it really helped during that transient phase when the car is on the limit of grip as both wheels spin up togetherness but on corner entry it’s effectively an open diff. It’s not perfect but for the road it’s a pretty solid option.
@@ShogunsDojo M240i is quite a different car. For starters you don't have the weight of the engine and the gearbox weighing the rear axle down. If you have too much traction on the rear axle in a light mid engine car you can overwhelm the front axle and just push it straight on power, so the car might go full understeer when you (partially) apply the throttle because you have weight distribution and weight transfer while accelerating working against the front axle grip. If you have enough power you can overcome the rear axle grip and then the car suddenly snaps into oversteer, which in a mid engine car is quite dangerous. There's no purely mechanical diff that wouldn't hurt handling in such car in any way. There will always be some tradeoffs. Ferrari uses an E-diff since 2004 F430 and it's most likely the most versatile solution to the problem.
I've switched my track toy from an E36 to a K24 MR-2 and a lot of the things I learned that worked in an E36 were slowing me down or were just borderline dangerous in the MR-2. Open diff gives me the fastest lap times right now.
@@arekb5951 touché, everything you’ve mentioned does make a lot of sense. I guess my experience with the 240 has led me to hyper focus on the rear axle and the layout of the A110 is just completely different. I fully take your point about how it can make handling problematic by shifting the balance of grip too far towards the rear axle. I hadn’t considered balance. Good talk 🫱🏾🫲🏽
@@arekb5951 you wrote a very descent tech comment, as an owner of a110 and prevously the Elise 111R totally agree on that!