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Alpine A110 1600S Blue Norev 1:18

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Alpine A110 1600S Blue Norev 1:18 185300 Diecast
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Norev's 1:18 diecast Alpine A110 1600S reproduces the 1971 rear-engined rally legend in blue, with opening doors, bonnet and boot revealing the compact engine and shallow front luggage space. Winner of the inaugural 1973 World Rally Championship manufacturers' title, the A110 remains one of motorsport's great underdog stories. A striking centrepiece for any French rally or classic sports collection.
Alpine A110 1600S Blue Norev 1:18
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Car Brand
Alpine
Model Manufacturer
Norev
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
185300
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About the Alpine A110 1600S Blue Norev 1:18

TL;DR: Norev's 1:18 diecast Alpine A110 1600S reproduces the 1971 rear-engined rally legend in blue, with opening doors, bonnet and boot on a diecast body. Winner of the 1973 World Rally Championship manufacturers' title, the A110 is a cornerstone piece for any French motorsport collection.

Jean Redele built the A110 around a simple idea: wrap a lightweight fibreglass body over a steel backbone chassis and let low weight do the work rather than raw power. That formula carried Alpine to the inaugural World Rally Championship manufacturers' title in 1973, and this 1600S variant represents the car near its competitive peak.

Diecast Construction and Opening Panels

Doors, Bonnet and Boot on a Rear-Engined Layout

Norev builds this A110 with doors, bonnet and boot that all open, which matters enormously on a car whose entire engineering story is about where the weight sits. Lifting the rear engine cover reveals the compact four-cylinder mounted behind the rear axle, the layout that gave the A110 its distinctive handling balance. The front boot, where most cars carry an engine, instead opens onto a shallow luggage space, exactly as the real rear-engined layout demanded. For a car this light in real life, roughly 700 kilograms, every opened panel also hints at just how little material Alpine used to get the job done.

Blue Paint Over a Famously Light Body

The blue paint sits deep and even across the A110's rounded, almost organic bodywork, a shape that came from fibreglass construction rather than pressed steel and allowed Alpine's designers curves a conventional factory process couldn't easily achieve. Norev's diecast casting reproduces those compound curves cleanly, with the headlamp pods and the car's distinctive hunched rear deck holding their shape without any flattening that would dull the original's sense of motion. That attention matters because the A110's shape, more than almost any other feature, is what still draws collectors to the car more than fifty years on.

The A110's Rally Pedigree

From Monte Carlo to a World Championship

The A110 built its reputation on rally stages through the late 1960s and into the early 1970s, taking outright victory at the Monte Carlo Rally in 1971 against far larger, more powerful opposition. That giant-killing reputation, built on low weight and nimble handling rather than outright horsepower, culminated in Alpine winning the first official World Rally Championship manufacturers' title in 1973. The 1600S designation on this example points to one of the more potent engine specifications Alpine offered during that competitive period, a genuine rally-adjacent road car rather than a watered-down tourer. Few manufacturers have ever punched so far above their size in motorsport.

A Small Manufacturer's Outsized Legacy

Alpine was a tiny manufacturer compared with the mainstream French marques it occasionally outperformed on stage, and the A110's success remains one of the great underdog stories in European rallying. Renault eventually absorbed Alpine, but the A110 name carries enough weight that it was revived decades later for a modern sports car, a rare honour for a model this old. That revival also means new collectors are discovering the original A110 for the first time, keeping demand for well-detailed models like this one consistently strong.

Collection Context and Display Considerations

This A110 1600S works as the centrepiece of a French rally or motorsport-themed shelf, its rounded fibreglass-inspired shape providing a striking contrast to the boxier hot hatches and saloons that might sit nearby. At 1:18, its compact dimensions match the real car's famously small footprint, one of the lightest and smallest serious rally machines of its era. Pairing it with a Renault Supercinq or another French rally subject builds a coherent national motorsport theme across different decades, and few pieces combine this much genuine motorsport pedigree with such an approachable scale.

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