McLaren 570S vs Alpine A110 - Which is the ultimate driver's car? | Autocar
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- When we first experienced the reborn Alpine A110 on its home turf, we called it a “baby McLaren” - but does the brilliant French sports car still stack up when you drive them back-to-back? To find out, Dan Prosser and Matt Prior put the £52,000 Alpine A110 against the McLaren 570S, which costs three times the price and has significantly more power. Which one will be more rewarding to drive on the road?
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I hope the Alpine A110 comes to the U.S., and with lots of dealers.
Arent you suppose to be pumping your stocks somewhere
Some say it's better to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow. That's why I'd choose the Alpine. Or not.
That's why I choose the old version of the A110 :)
Correct ... Alpine 110 all the way
You didn't answer the question you asked in the title...
2CV.
@@Pandamasque LoL!!
Quite right - but the question is a silly one, in the first place: no 'off-the-shelf' car can ever be the "ultimate" anything, unless you specify that you're ignoring all customized cars, in your question. Obviously, you can modify any candidate-car to improve its driving performance to suit your individual taste... I thought the "trivial" comment about the badly-designed arm-rest was actually quite telling - that sort of thing really hurts a car's utility as a real 'daily driver'!
No way a 570S can be 'ragged' or taken to the limit of grip safely on public roads.
Weight is the enemy! On the road a lightweight car with decent power will always be more fun than a heavy car with heaps of power. Power gets old, handling doesn’t.
Absolute!
Great Comparsion Video. The Alpine A110 Is a great sports car
Ah sarcasm, always makes me laugh
What a video. Thank you Autocar for putting out quality content. McLaren is a stunning car but there's something so beguiling about that little Alpine....
One of the best Autocar's videos I've seen. Brilliant crossed analysis. Well done!
2 petrolheads, 2 brilliant cars, casual conversation, fantastic!
Recipe for a a McLaren that would really impress me: A smaller €100k car with the same tub stiffness, even more road focus (particularly no aero nonsense except a working diffusor) with a 3L V6 400 hp version of their current engine at 1.100 kg. 25 years ago, they already produced a car with that kind of weight, it even had a V12, 3 seats and a top speed of 240 mph.
Alpine A110 any time! Such a cute and nice Sportscar!
@@mrjones5398 yes he is happy about the Alpine
Great review. Autocar: The original and still the best. Thanks Dan and Matt
A110 vs Elise 220 or Exige 350 anyone?
Eventhough they aren't competitive in the same market ...they both compete in GT4 spec racing ....take that into consideration
Lovely video and two great cars you chose, but I disagree with some of the comments from Dan. The A110 is a fun car and most people can take it closer to its limit than the 570S but that doesn't make it more desirable, it just makes the power more useable. Not many people can get the most out of a Porsche 911 Turbo S as it has so much power and grip, yet it is highly desirable. I recently bought an Alfa 4C for the exact reason you talked about, however, I wouldn't want that as my only car. Having a supercar appeals on lots of different levels. It is nice to have more than one car in the garage is my conclusion.
your car, the 4C, is EXACTLY the car i would've liked to see in a head-to-head comparison test with this Alpine...
@@borromeo50 lol no competition. The A110 is the clear winner. Not just because of the positives but because the A110 has none of the 4C's negatives.
The original A110’s engine noise was all Weber carbs induction noise
I totally agree with their commentary around the 12 minute mark about how enjoyable it is driving a car right at the edge of it's limits. Here in the US I'll never get a chance to drive an Alpine, but driving a well balanced Mazda MX-5 is way more fun than driving a super car which performance envelope is so far beyond anything possible on the road that if you pass a cop pushing the envelope you'll end up in jail. There used to be some really good roads that were completely empty past midnight, now there's at least some traffic at all times so forget the law, I don't want to kill somebody getting my adrenaline fix.
I really like your duo reviews. I really do.
next : Ferrari GT4 LUSSO Vs Dacia Sandero , which is the ultimate GT ?
The GTC is WAY more than 3 times the cost of the Sandero... But neither you nor I have the ability to max out a 570, so just chill and accept that they have a point about the Alpine.
excellent work guys
Great video and your views are so spot-on !! Thank you.
Conclusion!
Alpine is a sports car which you will enjoy more on public roads, because it has less power but it is ultimately more rewarding, (on public roads)
Really enjoyed that. Prosser is a cracking young journalist who I'm sure we will are only going to see more and more of going forward. Also worth noting he has put his money where is mouth is and bought his own A110. Mush be a cracking little car.
No contest, Alpine looks much better. The blue is bluer, and it looks like it can get over a speed hump. It'll be more reliable too, as France is closer to Japan than Britain, and the French can design things to work at temperatures slightly move than 20 degrees Celsius.
The Alpine A110 vs Evora 400 SHOULD'VE been the comparison test here!
Not sure how you claim these put driving enjoyment first with both of the cars are automatics only. Give them a manual transmission option and then we can talk about them putting enjoyment over stats
Dan main Autocar's host ;) Love it
Renault can do really enjoyable sports cars on road. Megane 3 rs clio 2 and 3 rs
do a head 2 head with porsche cayman , alpine, audi TT, GT86, and MX5
thanks for your video and work, effectively A110 it's fun to drive and pleasure to use it every day, it's geeting more important those days in front of track performance. In a way that Alpine is a sort of drug, you want to drive it all day and night long.
You are right flogging the hell out of a little car is more fun than frightening yourself every time you come out of a corner.
So wich one is the ultimate drivers car? (Knowing full and well that both are) but if you had to choose one?
Usually I'ma hardcore lover of naturally aspirated and manual cars, but I would just adore to have these two as my only fun cars
A110 v 570s , good video,but it seems to me Lotus is invisible, the Evora to me is an entry level McLaren 570 why not do that comparison..
We want a decently priced daily driver lightweight happy use sports car and NOT one of those over priced garage queens….no prizes for guessing which is which…
Not sure whether the fact that McLaren is 3 times as expensive makes it a bargain or is the Alpine ridiculously expensive for what it is..
The latter, in my opinion
Exactly neither.
The 570S is a bargain supercar.
@Devansh Gupta It's like a mid engined clio with 40 extra hp, fun shouldn't be that expensive, should it?
@@MyRealName @MyRealName Well that comparison really showed your ignorance
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Car journalists are the most guilty for that "movement" in the car industry that made the objective car performance seem like the priority. Stuff like 0-60, quarter miles, lap times, etc. All things that are TOTALLY irrelevant when you sit behind the wheel and literally play no role at all in your decision of how much you like a certain car or how good a certain car is, yet, the reviews are set up in such a way that it makes people believe a 0.4 seconds of a difference across a single lap between two cars is what makes one better than the other, which is utter horseshit. I've always said that cars are much more about the subjective qualities than the objective ones, and the subjective qualities are MUCH, MUCH more difficult to nail. Everyone can make a car that's quick in straight line or even on a track. Hell, a bunch of amateurs tune their cars in the garage with off the shelf parts and make them quicker than some stock sports cars, but that's not the point. Making a car that is subjectively great as well is totally different task. It goes way beyond using a stopwatch. Unfortunately, most people don't understand that, and even more unfortunately, many car manufacturers don't, so they often make cars in such a way that they put objective qualities above subjective ones, just so that they could have bragging rights and use them in their marketing campaigns and payed reviews. That is ridiculous to me, and it makes it seem as if it really is how people judge cars. There's a massive difference between how the vast majority of car reviewers judge cars and how the actual people who buy those cars judge them. It's as if you drove a car for 10 hours straights, really liked it, and then someone brought out a stopwatch, and then that stopwatch would make you decide whether what you felt for the past 10 hours was real or not. OF COURSE it was real. Yet, some people want you make you think otherwise and even make cars win comparison tests based on nothing but a tiny, insignificant difference in measured performance. Unfortunately many manufacturers are using that and getting away with building really shitty cars, that is especially true about American brands. All those Hellcats, Demons and other ridiculous cars are perfect examples of cars that appear amazing on paper but really are nothing but really bad cars with a lot of power and very grippy, overly wide tires.
derbigpr500 a CorvetteZo6 ZL1 or any Camaro 1le a Ford GT would show their backsides to a lot of your Euro cars around a track all day long. As for the Hellcats and Demons? They are drag monsters out of the box. You know drag? The particularly American style of racing. So maybe that’s what they were going for when they manufactured those two. Just sayin.
I drove the new 718 Cayman S (without an LSD) and I have to say, other than seeing the Porsche badge I was disappointed. After all the raving on about them, it sounds rubbish, it really does, especially inside where it sounds like an ald van. The drive didn't seem all that engaging. Yes it was quick but I don't know it felt like it was missing something. Jumped back into the M2, it sounded way better, felt just as quick and immediately feels way more playful just driving home from work. So I understand exactly where you're coming from. Noise and feel/fun is what makes a sports car, not outright pace.
Agreed. I have an ALFA 4C and am familiar with Lotus Elise and Exige. Sadly those Lotus aren't sold in US anymore nor is the 110 going to be sold here. But even if they were I would stay with the 4C. For those that have never driven one of the cars I mentioned.....you don't know what you are missing. None can be the replacement for the family SUV but that is not what they were designed for. Take them on a nice road trip or a track day or autocross....you will see what it means to drive a real drivers car.
@derbigpr500
- objective measures have their place, in showing us how fast a car potentially can be. But in general I agree. Cars like the A110 and 4C sacrifice true driving connection for an automatic that saves ~2/10ths of a second on the 60 sprint and less than half a second a lap, hilariously on cars that don't have all that impressive performance stats anyway, compared to say a manual Cayman or Corvette.
I'm going to disagree with the last line. While the Hellcats are bloated stright line monsters, the Camaro (all 1LE trims), and GT350R are both extremely well balanced and amazing drivers cars, while also putting down excellent lap times.
Great, can we get a triple test with the Alpine, Standard Cayman (PDK) and the TTRS?
Pretty easy
1. Alpine
2. Cayman (if it was the s I think it would be top)
3. Ttrs (well below - extremely unengaging)
TTRS has been tested already and it lost badly. It's not a great car at all... I tested one on both road and I was, well, unimpressed in every way. It's dull as dishwater. It's WAY to "safe". The gearbox is extremely annoying as it changes for you, even in manual mode. I got out of it, very frustrated... the new Porsche Cayman S, on the other hand, was epic. !
Nick Chatburn I agree, I’m not really a fan of the TT RS but I think it needs to be included along with an M2 (dct) and it would be cool to see. The dream for me would be if VW Group put the 5 banger from the TT RS into the Cayman 😍.
Yea - the Alpine & standard Cayman as that's the only one that sits anywhere near £50k, standard M2, TTRS or S, Alfa 4c, A45 AMG, Golf R, Civic Type R & maybe the 4 pot F Type. Good mix of hot hatch 4wd Fwd and Rwd. Porsche & Audi would probably take the interior. I think the M2 would beat a standard Cayman around the track. I reckon the 4 pot F Type would be last around a lap. Not sure about the rest.
I’ve had the opportunity to drive on of those Alpines and they are an absolutely amazing machine. I own a BMW M3 CS and I would swap it tomorrow if I didn’t have a family
Decisions decisions (only messing)
If I could sell my family I would have one
More sports cars need to be lighter with a focus on power to weight.
Don't quite get the comment around 5:00 "it's bringing down the accessibility of its performance" and naming it in the same sentence as the i30 N, MX-5 and GT86. I mean it is a great car but it's also more expensive than 718, so it's not exactly more accessible than that and as accessible as the other cars named.
Great idea.
Alpine A110 is such an interesting car and I know there's a point to it's power etc but at over £50k.... it should really be at least 300hp. £50k... let's be honest it's a £40k car at most. Mind you saying that, the Alfa 4c, which is prettier imo is way toooo expensive also. Gutted they never made a stradale or cloverleaf or Quadrifolglio version of that. Here's to hoping Alpine make an RS or something of the A110 and open up the potential on that chassis and set up. I just couldn't bring myself to pay £50k at the moment for one when you can get an M2 for less with a straight 6
My M2 costs exactly the same when new as the full option Alpine A110 Legende my girlfriend ordered.... The A110 is not cheap, but in my opinion it is worth the money (way more then the even more expensive equally specced 718 cayman/boxster).
I agree as well, i've build a competition car which was still road legal. But I didn't enjoy it on the street anymore because the limit of grip wasn't approachable with some sanity of mind. It became a specialist tool for laptimes, not for enjoyment. Smaller and less grippy compound tyres allow for bigger slip angles and more often approachable limit and thus a drivers car.
If only Alpine had invest all along 40 years we would have a french porsche brand since a long time with supercar
Has anyone ever seen McLaren 540C?? I have never seen one video review of that car, I'm not sure it even exists.
It does, but it's mainly sold in china and is exactly the same as the 570s only with 30 less hp, so there's barely any difference so nobody think it's worth reviewing
@@slopestyleer5160 If it's a cheaper 570s only with 30 less hp, why is no one buying them over here? What the heck do you need those extra 30hp more for?
@@PipeOPhile I agree, most people probably just think it's more prestigious to buy the 570. I would personally just buy the 540 and remap the ecu
@@PipeOPhile and also apparently it's not sold in the US. Only Europe and Asia I think
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Its very funny to see the passenger falling asleep while the driver speaks about the genious if the alpine car :))))
570S is simply THE prettiest MC but I know a few owners and the cars are basically always in the shop! Give me the Alpine!
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This video underscores why, for me, “slow car fast” is always preferable over “fast car slow.” If you can’t use the cars abilities, what good are they? They just become irrelevant numbers.
675LT is still the best car McLaren have ever made
I have to say I find the alpine to be the prettiest. Those lines are really growing on me.
When Porsche cut the Cayman's legs by making it a 4 cylinder they opened the market they had on lock forever. I wish they kept it, but you know, it cannot surpass the 911 blablablah
Arf it's so strange to see an Alpine with the wheel on the right side of the car !
Here's autocar, answering the question no one dared to ask, because we want neither to lose.
What is their answer? Didn't hear it in the video :D
Petar Denchev, touché.
I think Mat Watson @ Car Wow is one of the few automotive journalists to pronounce the name 'Alpine' correctly as an Englishman and English speaker.
Why don't you put a golf gti in the mix? =)))
2 of the best driver’s cars and yet no manual box in either... 🤦🏻♂️
Sad eh. I’m not a massive Porsche fan but they seem to be recognising value of a manual transmission in proper drivers car like Cayman GT4 and 991 GT3 Touring. I’d take a Cayman GT4 over either of these in a heartbeat
@@lastword4316 Same here, and for the same reason. Though I'm determined to reward Aston with an order when they stick a manual into their new Vantage.
Alpine isnt best drivers cars
Which car looks like every other car they've created?
I think Dan Prosser is onto something with his (apologetic) complaint about the passenger armrest - reviews might do well to consider the poor, under-represented passenger, even for sports cars. For every single owner with no friends, there are many couple owners, for whom long drives, swapping drivers along the way, are part of the fun of ownership. But not if the passenger seat is a rolling penalty box, with, for example, no foot room, weird sharp corners, and most common of all, more limited seat adjustment for the passenger than the driver. Bring on the passenger reviews...!
Maybe I’ll have to drive one because I don’t get the hype for auto, fat steering wheel and not that lightweight. A Honda S2000 better gearbox, better engine etc new was half the price of alpine (even adjusted for inflation, they were 20k pre-reg parallel import at one point.)
😊 alpine champion World Rally car aluminium
570s is one of the best car in McLaren, alpine is not bad at all.
Alpine champion World Rally the best 😊
The alpine is three and a bit times more expensive than an Up GTI at just under £15K. I think that the Up GTI satisfies the criteria being used here.
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That's the road from Harry's garage
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The A110 you could use most of the performance safely while the 570S you just wouldn’t get anywhere near using all it’s performance on the Road, so you could argue that you’d be better off with the A110.....
I completely agree, for road use the 570s would drive me mad.
Two the most emotional journalists now together:):) wake my up before the end;)
So the alpine is around the same price as an M2 competition....bit off topic I know but that alpine is rank
These guys act like they are out on a date, I'm surprise they're not holding hands. LOL
Driving position of the alpine for me is a bit off
Die Farbe von 570s ist schön!!
alpine vs cayman
they are both 2 seat small coupes? the maclaren is not NOT small.. drive it through a french small village and see how small it is.....
Love my 570---no comparison
If You include price , taxes , fuel consumption , it will be close !
So did you compare them?
@@blackbess338 value of McLaren is very high
McLaren colour is great
Ok how long will they last before banging on about some Porsche?
There we go...less than 3 mins.
570S on the limit on the public roads? Really
Doesn't the Apline keep exploding?...plus this is a little insulting to McLaren !
They're both blue! They're both blue!
It's more a of promotional video for the alpine than anything else.
The annoying armrest in the Macca is exactly why I read/watch reviews
Alpine champion World Rally champion 24 du Mans 😊
A110 accelerates like a McLaren next to a GT86.
Yeah to the average car enthusiast 0-100mph in 10 secs flat is bloody quick which they didnt put across on this video! This thing will leave the hot hatches in a straight line with ease as long as you or your passenger arnt too heavy!!....
Blue = Blue. 4 lights > 2 lights. Conclusion. Alpine (cough. Renault) > Mc Laren
Porsche lost the plot with the 4 cylinder Boxster/Cayman, that's my take from this video.
Maybe be no, the alpine is too fast to get near it’s limits on the public road so you need to find enjoyment elsewhere, in the outside shots you were mostly going slow and were you enjoying that? And as for the McLaren, don’t be silly, you used full power for max of 3 seconds and that took you well over the speed limit, it might be the most approachable McLaren but that’s not what you asked.
The one without all the nanny devices and a manual gearbox? Oh wait...
And before the flaming starts, the question was "Driver's car...". Not fast car, fun car, track car, sports car or performance car.
You spent 10 min describing a Toyota 86
To be honest its nearly impossible to rag any car to its limit on public roads certainly not a 570bhp McLaren that'd annihilate the mid level supercars of just a few years prior- Gallardo, 458. Not even with the Alpine can u take that to its limit and if u think u can your either naive or now dead in a ditch.
I have a 2002 1.25L fiesta and taking that to its limit would mean breaking many driving laws bar on motorways so the best drivers car is a Peugeot 205 gti or Clio Williams end of.
Take two great cars, make a video about them that’s about as exciting to watch as a trip to B&Q. Takes some doing that. Kudos.
silly
Only boring people get bored or so they say
autocar is selling mclarens now.
like comparing a mazda miata to a bugatti veyron
I have never driven an overpowered Veyron , but I bet Your Miata drives ten times better on the road !
Great channel and that alpine is interesting but for me it's um...not very pretty. There. I said it.
As long as there are 981 Cayman S avalible as good used ones, there will never be a reason to buy something like the Alpine!
Thats just my opinion though...
Spot on! The combination of a great engine and gearbox along with handling to match would tempt me far more than the Alpine with its 2 litre engine.
In one Sir
True! But a 981 Cayman S is more expensive to run, insure and roadtax. The big benefit of the Alpine A110 is that it is so tax friendly (especially if you buy it as a company car in our country). Even the “boring” 718 Cayman 2.0 is less tax friendly then the A110.
My girlfriend ordered the A110 as her new company car and the deductable tax benefits are realy big when she compared it with buying a used 981 Cayman S. Ofcourse this is because of the smaller Alpine engine and the lower Co2.
Besides the financial benefits she loved how the A110 drives, how it looks and most of all it’s not yet another Porsche Cayman/Boxster that you see parked on every corner and driven by every succesfull women who wants a compact sports car.
@@Franzino
Exactly the other way around my friend. I have a 981 GTS and its the most affordable sports car ever. Insurance is about 40% of what a Golf GTI would cost, and it still has the same value as on the day I bought it ;)
Giuliano Noviello Yes there will. It’s called “ uniqueness “ 😂
If those cars truly put pleasure before performance they would both have a MANUAL TRANSMISSION. End of story.
Back end of the alpine looks really "meh". 570s is the best sports car out there at the moment. And despite having a TTv8 it has a very clean spirited sound.
570s is the best? Have you driven one or any other cars even close to it so you can properly compare?
@@sexyitalian891 i meant best looking. I was talking about the back end of the alpine the previous sentence but i should have made it more clear sorry.
Looks I like alpine . But as far as performance is consern both cars deliver's fantastic performance with difference experience.