In early 2021, Alpine announced plans to morph into a purely electric brand and offer a so-called "Dream Garage" consisting of three cars: a small hatchback "for me," a crossover "for us," and a sports car "for the weekend." Although the GT X-Over electric crossover has already been spied as a test mule, it's the hot hatch we'll see first. Not the production version, but rather a concept baptized A290_β (A290 "beta").
The world premiere is locked in for May 9 ahead of a market launch expected to take place around 2025. We're being told the moniker follows the Alpine nomenclature by starting with an "A," followed by three digits. The first one refers to the vehicle's size, while the next two reflect the type of vehicle: "90" will be used by the "multi-purpose" cars such as this one, while the sports cars will have "100."
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