(1) #Renault’s premium-performance #Alpine brand, the 2-seat, mid-engine #AlpineA110 is often compared favorably to #Porsche’s #718Cayman.
#WSJ’s #DanNeil, on the #SouthBeach Edition:
“As for the stereotype embedded in the South Beach nomenclature, that it’s a pink car for out-and-proud self-identifying males, you’re thinking of a black #DodgeChallenger…”
(2) “…In any event, the glittery pastels seem more likely to appeal to club-going college-age women, for whom South Beach represents not a gay enclave but a raver’s paradise, an all-night Day-Glo Shanghai-La of parties & pools to fall into.
Thus the disappointed looks whenever the driver’s door opened &, instead of a princess 👑 looking for a 🎉 party, I stepped out, a frumpy American asking to use the loo. Sigh. I used to be the belle of the ball.”…
(3) “…It’s worse than I feared; the #AlpineA110 is fantastic. #Renault - part of the recently restructured Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance - has said the #Alpine brand could return to the U.S. before the end of the decade.
But the #A110, already long of tooth, is unlikely to be around to plant the flag.
If so, I’ll be tickled…well, you know.”
-#DanNeil on the Alpine A110 pink-colored South Beach Edition car that he reviewed while in the U.K.
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