Limited Edition Alpines

[erics]

Who has one?

What do we think?

1975 Tour de Corse
1973 San Remo
Enstone
Colour Edition
etc

In Europe, the 1975 for instance change hands for big money. There is 1 for sale in the UK for £100k but clearly no one wants it at this price. Been out there 6 months.

In the UK, car enthusiasts seem a lot less taken by marketing type exercise than in continental Europe. Lotus and McLaren have been the champions of paint job exercise.

My view is I like them but would not pay crazy money over the equivalent non-ltd car.

[autofocus]

Hi,

Some of the Limited Editions are lovely but as the mechanical specs are the same then its mainly cosmetic changes which I am not always sure are worth big money.

I like the Legende with the tailored luggage and the red carbon roof on the San Remo is a nice touch.

Regards

Tim

[London GT3]

I had the Tour de Corse which I purchased new in Nov 2022. One of just five UK cars (150 globally). I just sold it for less than I paid as I have an A110R coming soon.

It was a lovely spec, something different, but unsurprisingly they depreciate the same as any other A110. There is a TDC up at £99k but I can't see it ever getting close to that number. The owner would have paid £67k and it is worth c.£63k today.

[erics]

London GT3 said:

I had the Tour de Corse which I purchased new in Nov 2022. One of just five UK cars (150 globally). I just sold it for less than I paid as I have an A110R coming soon.

It was a lovely spec, something different, but unsurprisingly they depreciate the same as any other A110. There is a TDC up at £99k but I can't see it ever getting close to that number. The owner would have paid £67k and it is worth c.£63k today.

I was after a tdc and could not find one. The £99k car will be for sale for a veeeerrrrryyyy long time.

[Terminator X]

I have a FRB A110R so whilst the R isn't limited the colour is. Can't imagine there will be too many R's in that colour as they pulled it pretty soon after I ordered.

TX.

[bram070]

erics said:

In Europe, the 1975 for instance change hands for big money. There is 1 for sale in the UK for £100k but clearly no one wants it at this price. Been out there 6 months.

I do not see them selling really well in NL either. One TDC (with a mileage of 1000km) has been for sale since March, previously for €150k and now for €125k, the other (only 38km) has been on the market since July for €150k. Both are imports, I do not know from which country. Really feels like speculation to me.

There is also a Sanremo for sale since July for €125k with a mileage of 3000km, I guess that one is imported too.

As a comparison: a new Enstone that is currently on its way to an Alpine Centre is listed at €107k.

Personally, I think these limited editions do not add more to the value of the car than a heritage colour.

Edited by bram070 on Saturday 23 September 21:46

[biggles330d]

I don't see the value in these special editions. They remind me a bit of the old MX5 special editions that added a bit of unique paint or trim or wheels but fundamentally they were the same car.

Great if Alpine can get people to buy into the whole idea and make a fat bonus on each one, but as the owner of a basic Pure that when new in 2021 came in at just about £50k, I look at the special editions and for the life of me can't see where there's 10's of thousands in additional value as the base product is just so good and the specials aren't fundamentally different in engine, transmission, chassis, structure, equipment etc.

Long may they keep building them though, as it just keeps reinforcing to me what a total bargain mine is!