Five alive: Alpine has plans to transform the upcoming electric Renault 5 into a thrilling hot hatch called the A290. This concept gives a tantalising taste of what we can expect.

The A290 p has served as a test bed for the road car's development, allowing Alpine's chassis engineers to experiment with torque vectoring -- albeit with a much more effective dual front motor configuration -- to provide a more playful balance at the limit. TheCMF-B EV front-wheel-drive architecture from the Renault 5 will sit at the A290's core, and crucially Alpine was involved in its development to ensure that certain parameters could be met for its hot hatch. Five alive: Alpine has plans to transform the upcoming electric Renault 5 into a thrilling hot hatch called the A290. [Extracted from the article]