Press Kit Alpine
PRESS KIT ALPINE January 19, 2013 INTRODUCTION Some car manufacturers are immortal, whatever their changing fortunes. Rolls Royce or Bugatti, for example, or Aston Martin or Maserati. Alpine is just such a marque. For almost 60 years and three generations of motorists, climbing behind the wheel of an Alpine has produced an intense and rare sense of joy. Nobody who has driven one ever forgets the experience. Those who still do drive one, enjoy sharing it. Others, meanwhile, nurture the dream. Alpine is the story of a brand, a story of people and, very soon, the story of a revival. CONTENT I. A RENAULT ‘FAMILY’ II. JEAN RÉDÉLÉ, MOTORSPORT CHAMPION III. THE CREATION OF ALPINE IV. FROM ALPINE TO ALPINE RENAULT V. AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TOWARDS EXPORTS VI. RACING AND RALLYING: ALPINE’S PRESERVE VII. ALPINE: A STORY OF PEOPLE VIII: ALPINE PRODUCTION IN FIGURES IX: TITLES WON BY ALPINE 1 PRESS KIT ALPINE I. A RENAULT ‘FAMILY’ Jean Rédélé was the first-born son of Madeleine Prieur and Emile Rédélé, a Renault dealer based in Dieppe and a former mechanic of Ferenc Szisz – the first Renault Frères ‘factory driver’, winner of the Grand Prix de la Sarthe in 1906 at Le Mans and runner-up in the Grand Prix de l'A.C.F. in Dieppe in 1907. Emile Rédélé had been hired by Louis Renault himself right at the beginning of the 20th Century. His son Jean always kept in his office at home, a small picture commemorating Szisz’s successes in the big, 13-litre Renault, assisted by his father.
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