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stephendell wrote:Lots of great articles around at the moment and lots of praise for the car.
Have to say though very very poor of EVO to say almost too close to call and then give the narrowest of victories to a Cayman S with £25,000 yes £25K of options including adaptive damping, limited slip diff, carbon brakes and special wheels!!
And then say well it might have been a different result without the options. Well next time reject the £75k car offered and just ask for a standard one so it’s a level playing field.
And equally disappointing/daft of Alpine to stubbornly stick with the 249bhp engine in a £52,000 car when the £27k Megane has the 276bhp version of the same engine. Surely when they knew the A110 price point was going to be £52k Cayman S rather than base £43k Cayman they must have realised those extra 27 horses would have made all the difference in these road tests. Coming in at £10k more than the Porsche and not adding any extra power was just plain dumb. Did they not learn any lessons from the criminally underpowered spider which would have been a success with just 30bhp more. Hopefully they will remedy this in the Alpine very soon.
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Having driven the A110 on track and some country roads, in a direct comparison with the Cayman, I can say the Alpine doesn't need any more power.stephendell wrote:Lots of great articles around at the moment and lots of praise for the car.
Have to say though very very poor of EVO to say almost too close to call and then give the narrowest of victories to a Cayman S with £25,000 yes £25K of options including adaptive damping, limited slip diff, carbon brakes and special wheels!!
And then say well it might have been a different result without the options. Well next time reject the £75k car offered and just ask for a standard one so it’s a level playing field.
And equally disappointing/daft of Alpine to stubbornly stick with the 249bhp engine in a £52,000 car when the £27k Megane has the 276bhp version of the same engine. Surely when they knew the A110 price point was going to be £52k Cayman S rather than base £43k Cayman they must have realised those extra 27 horses would have made all the difference in these road tests. Coming in at £10k more than the Porsche and not adding any extra power was just plain dumb. Did they not learn any lessons from the criminally underpowered spider which would have been a success with just 30bhp more. Hopefully they will remedy this in the Alpine very soon.
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The A110 is aimed as a competitor to the Cayman, not the S, so I agree it was unfair to put it up against the higher BHP and using a car with so many performance options.
.I expect the reason the bhp/tonne figures were wrong is because they had the weight of the standard car.
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stephendell wrote:Yes it was but unfortunately the price point came in £10k over and exactly Cayman S which is what it will be compared too every time now. In practice most base Caymans will probably be specced above the price of an A110.
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