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Alpine A110 1600 SC Blue Kyosho 1:18

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Alpine A110 1600 SC Blue Kyosho 1:18 08482BL Diecast
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Kyosho's 1:18 diecast Alpine A110 1600 SC reproduces the lightweight fibreglass-bodied coupe that built Alpine's reputation in 1970s rallying, presented here in road-going blue. Zinc alloy construction and opening doors show off a cabin built around low weight rather than luxury, matching the philosophy behind the real car's rally success. A fitting road-car companion for collectors who already own an A110 in period rally livery.
Alpine A110 1600 SC Blue Kyosho 1:18
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Car Brand
Alpine
Model Manufacturer
Kyosho
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
08482BL
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About the Alpine A110 1600 SC Blue Kyosho 1:18

TL;DR: Kyosho's 1:18 diecast Alpine A110 1600 SC reproduces the lightweight fibreglass-bodied coupe that underpinned Alpine's 1970s rallying success, presented here in road-going blue rather than competition livery. Zinc alloy construction with opening doors reveals a cabin built around low weight, giving collectors the road-car counterpart to Alpine's famous rally-winning shape.

Every famous rally car started life as a road car somebody could actually buy, and the Alpine A110 is one of the clearest examples: this blue 1600 SC is the version customers drove to work.

Kyosho's Road-Going A110 1600 SC in Diecast

Zinc Alloy Build Around a Fibreglass Shape

Kyosho renders the A110's body in zinc alloy diecast, translating a car whose real bodywork was fibreglass over a steel backbone chassis into a construction that gives the model genuine weight in the hand. The rounded, bug-eyed headlights and the compact, curved tail come through with the correct proportions rather than a stretched or shortened silhouette, and the blue paintwork sits evenly across the small, simple body panels with minimal brightwork to interrupt the shape. Panel gaps around the doors stay tight, a reasonable expectation on a car this compact where there is little bodywork to hide imprecise tooling behind.

A Cabin Built Around Low Weight

The doors open on metal hinges to reveal a cabin that prioritised low weight over comfort even in road-going trim, with slim seats and a simple dashboard rather than the heavier fittings a contemporary saloon might carry. Kyosho maps the dashboard's gauge layout and the thin-rimmed steering wheel with enough definition to read clearly, details that hint at why the A110's road-going and rally versions shared so much engineering in common. There is little separating this cabin from a lightly modified rally car's interior, which is part of the point.

The A110's Rear-Engined Layout and Rallying Fame

Renault Power in a Featherweight Package

The A110 carried its engine behind the rear axle and used Renault-sourced power, a layout that, combined with its featherweight fibreglass body, gave the car exceptional traction and agility on loose surfaces despite fairly modest horsepower on paper. That rear-engined, rear-weighted balance made the A110 unusually well suited to rally stages, where mechanical grip mattered more than outright power, and it is a large part of why the car became a genuine competition weapon rather than staying a pretty French coupe with no motorsport relevance.

Alpine's First World Rally Championship Title

Alpine-Renault took the A110 to the first-ever World Rally Championship manufacturers' title in 1973, a result that cemented the car's reputation and gave the French marque a genuine claim to rallying's early history, ahead of the Lancias and Fiats that would dominate the sport later in the decade. That title-winning pedigree is why A110s in period rally livery remain some of the most requested subjects among 1970s rally collectors, and why a road-going version like this one carries real weight as a companion piece rather than a lesser alternative.

Pairing a Road-Going A110 With Rally Liveries

This blue 1600 SC works best displayed alongside an A110 in Alpine-Renault's blue and white competition livery, showing the same compact shape doing two different jobs a year or two apart. At around 18cm long, it takes up little shelf space, which makes it easy to build a small run of A110 variants without the display sprawling across an entire cabinet. Kyosho's diecast construction, with its opening doors and honest cabin detailing, suits a subject that rewards close handling, and the road-car finish here gives a French rallying collection a grounded starting point before moving on to the liveried competition versions that made the A110 famous.

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