Here's Your Best Look Yet At The Alpine A390

We’re set for Alpine to expand its lineup to three cars in May, with the arrival of the A390. A teaser image of that sort-of-saloon, sort-of-SUV, definitely electric car was released a few weeks ago to whet our appetites and now we’ve had a better look at a prototype.

As much as we’d like to label these spyshots, Alpine itself has released images of the A390 prototype undergoing testing and it's our closest look yet at the final production car.

We can tell you it's going to largely resemble the A390 Beta concept seen in late 2024, albeit toned down a little for production. The front end looks to be refined a little with more prominent headlights and a smaller set of triangular daytime running ones below those.

The rear is getting a full-width light bar, and that’s about as much as we can add on its design at this point. The finer details are well camouflaged, and we’ll see the full car on 27 May.

Alpine has given us some more technical info, though. The A390 measures 4.6m long, 1.5m tall and 1.9m wide, which is to say slightly smaller in footprint than a Porsche Macan. It will also be a five-seater.

It’s also going to feature torque vectoring and five drive modes, one of those including a ‘Track Mode’. More groundbreaking reveals as we have them.

We don’t know what’s powering the Alpine A390 just yet. If the concept’s powertrain is carried over, expect some kind of tri-motor setup. If Alpine is to go after the Porsche Macan, expect somewhere in the region of 400bhp at least.

It’ll also mark the first electric Alpine not to use a Renault as its base, given the A290 relies on the new R5 as a starting point. It won’t be the last, though – more are coming as part of the brand’s ‘Dream Garage’, including a larger SUV and a new A110.