This is what you should remember when you visit France again.
Supercar police cars will continue to be in high demand around the world. Dubai owns a fleet, and other countries have their own entries, such as Japan’s Nissan GT-R cop car. Some double as lifesavers, such as Italy’s Lamborghini Huracan cop car.
The Alpine A110 is the latest addition to the segment of cars that serve civic duty. Although not the first, France has announced that it will order 26 units of its mid-engine sports car.
You should be paying attention if you are a lawbreaker in rural France.
Here is a excerpt from the French Ministry of Interior’s press release.
The Ministry of the Interior will purchase rapid intervention vehicles for the National Gendarmerie following a competition that was launched in June 2021. The contract with Alpine A110 Pure model was won by Renault; the contract was notified October 11th for four years. 26 copies were ordered.
The National Gendarmerie will use the 26 Alpine HTML110 units. Gendarmes, France’s police force that focuses on small towns and rural areas of less than 20,000 people, are to be used by the National Gendarmerie. Police Nationale, on the other hand is responsible for Paris as well as other urban areas. These renderings show what the A110 police cars might look like. Durisotti will customize them.
According to the French Ministry of Interior, the A110 units will “carry out interventions along the motorway, involving vehicles at high speed as part of road safety and judicial police missions (drug traficking, for instance).”
The Alpine A110 sports car is lightweight and powered by a turbocharged, 1.8-liter engine that produces 249 horsepower (185kilowatts) as well as 236 pound-feet (242 Newton-meters) of torque. James May considers his personal example of a supercar because of several reasons.
The Alpine A110 is priced at 58,400 Euros or approximately $68,000 depending on current exchange rates.