Renault and Caterham are poised to announce that the firms are co-operating on a road car project that will see the Alpine brand return to the road.
The announcement is expected to be confirmed in early November, and will involve both Renault and Caterham releasing sports cars based on a common architecture.
The deal has been born out of Renault?s successful engine supply deal to the Caterham Formula 1 team.
As well as its racing interests, Caterham also has a Technology business, which took over the F1 team?s previous base in Hingham, Norfolk, when it transferred its operations to an alternative site in Leafield, Oxfordshire
Caterham Technology?s mission statement says, ?for a company whose DNA is rooted in sports car development, it goes without saying that dynamic performance development expertise is at the heart of our service offerings.?
What?s more, the Caterham F1 team?s Technical Officer, Mike Gascoyne, is also the CEO of Caterham Technology, and recently Tweeted ?Back at work in Hingham, road car project team settled in and working on a really exciting project to be announced soon.?
Details remain scarce, with both firms refusing to comment, but we do know that the proposed Alpine sports car will look quite different to the A110-50 concept car (pictured), which was essentially a Renault Megane Trophy race car with a body design inspired by the Renault DeZir concept, first show at the 2010 Paris Motor Show.
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