ALPINE A110
We’re discovering the ingenious weight-saving features that make this the car it is
MILEAGE 7311
WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT
To see if one of the world’s best driver’s cars can also prove sufficiently easy to live with for it to still make sense
I
know. Of all the pictures I could have taken in all the locations to which it’s been, I choose one of me filling up the A110’s washer bottle at some motorway services on the M4. Could I really not have thought of anything more interesting to illustrate this story? Or, indeed, to spend the next 600 words writing about? Well, no, as it happens. I won’t spend all the space below talking about the car’s on-board windscreen-clearing strategy, but there is a very specific reason why I am doing so now – and it has very little to do with ensuring you can still see where you’re going.