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Only the last 633 made had the 289. Most of the 7083 made were fitted with the 260. This per wiki. I knew both were used just didn’t know the specifics. But wiki has another production number. It says the Tiger II, the 289 designated car was only for US. More interesting facts on the wiki page.
The Renault Alpine A110 is a bucket list car for me. They are unbelievably cool. The new generation of Alpine's don't quite capture the original, but they are quite competent on track. We happened to be in the Alpine showroom in Paris when the F1 final was on, and we watched it in a bar they had upstairs. We also stopped by the Le Mans track and there was a track day happening -- plenty of Alpines on track and they were quite quick. Also a Lotus 2-Eleven on track (Lotus's purpose-built track car).
The Mark 1 and 1A models had the 260 V8 (about 6500 made) and the Mark 2 had the 289 with only around 600 built. Both engines have pretty low redlines (5000 for the 260, 5500 for the 289) and relatively low HP (164 HP and 200 HP), but VERY good torque for such a light car (258 ft-lb and 282 ft-lb) so they feel much stronger in real-life than the specs imply. HP is a computed figure off of torque multiplied by RPM -- so the low rev limit results in low HP.
Love me some chrome headlight rings, 911 or 912, matters not, although a mechanical “S” like my friend’s* would be way close to the top of my list.
* Last year of MFI - he bought it from the GM of Vasek-Pollack in ‘78, it was his personal car; black, sunroof, factory lowered, Bilsteins, Recaros, ashtray delete, TOTL Blaupunk (Frankfurt?).
Saw a LOT of Lambo's, Ferrari's and more Porsches than I could count this past weekend in the Dolomites.
Only ONE Alpine (A110), was expecting more of those.
Also a group with a handful of KTM's, including a rare(?) coupé model: