So I drove an Alpine downhill

[00:00:01]All right, let's start the car.

[00:00:07]So, this is an Alpine A110.

[00:00:12]Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

[00:00:16]All right, let's go.

[00:00:20]Motorcycle.

[00:00:23]What engine shakes a lot.

[00:00:28]>> [laughter] >> What a sound.

[00:00:33]So, this car belongs to my colleague, Thomas. Thomas, yep.

[00:00:38]So, he has a Porsche Spyder.

[00:00:42]He has a McLaren 600LT, this car, and a Mini Countryman JCW.

[00:00:54]All right.

[00:00:59]Wow, what a nice car. What a nice car.

[00:01:03]But, things are flinging around cuz this car has practically no compartments whatsoever.

[00:01:13]This is the perfect example of a car that is only 1.8 L turbo charged, but they made it so lightweight.

[00:01:25]This car is below or just at 1,000 kg.

[00:01:33]So, it's a very lightweight car.

[00:01:39]Mid-engine.

[00:01:40]Look at the way the car drives, man.

[00:01:46]>> [laughter] >> And it's comfortable.

[00:01:49]And it's comfortable.

[00:01:53]The thing with a French, uh, they they made a car that is so pretty, so good-looking, could have been a classic in the making, and they sell it at such a high price, and they decided to cheap out on the interior, right? The interior is is not nice enough for what the car should have been.

[00:02:26]Yes, if you if you put too much exotic materials, you add weight, right? But, for the price that they are selling, for the exclusivity of the car, they ought to have, you know, make the interior feel more special.

[00:02:45]And that would truly make it a a classic in the making.

[00:02:51]So, how's the feeling of driving the car?

[00:02:54]It's It's one of the best sports cars out there.

[00:02:59]Um the car just listens to you. I just came off the Alfa Romeo, so I would say that that Alfa Romeo uh has a nicer steering design than this. This is not a bad design, but the overly thick grips on certain parts, you know?

[00:03:21]Why is the car doing this?

[00:03:24]Okay, maybe I'm not used to sports cars, maybe that's what it does. I leave it in automatic mode, I just don't want to play around with the transmission, and see how the car reacts, you know?

[00:03:36]See, the car rotates around you, small, nimble, so predictable, super duper fast car, man. This car is super duper fast.

[00:03:52]If you want to, you can just about overtake anything on this type of road, man. Just crazy.

[00:04:04]And you're lugging along like practically no weight.

[00:04:08]So, you can do turns that are super-duper tight.

[00:04:15]Just let the car grip.

[00:04:22]So easy to drive fast with this car.

[00:04:25]Crazy.

[00:04:34]Is it more special than the Cayman?

[00:04:37]At this juncture, yes, but it that's an unfair statement to the Cayman. If both car were to come out at the same time, and if both car were just as popular as one another, that means it's not a rare item, then that would put into question a lot of praises we give this car, right? Because the Cayman is just as capable, and it's way more practical, and the finishing of the Cayman is just much better.

[00:05:20]So, you can I can catch up to him at will, if I want to, because this car is just so easy to go fast. So easy. There's no weight that's being lugged around.

[00:05:34]You can see the car pushing out just now. This car, none None of that. But, of course, that's an SUV, so it's a bit unfair to even begin to compare.

[00:05:48]See this kind of road, right? I still can accelerate if I want to.

[00:05:52]There are no speed bumps, huh?

[00:05:55]What a crazy fast car.

[00:06:05]Take the inside.

[00:06:08]Just stick to it.

[00:06:10]Change lane.

[00:06:12]Ah, you can't.

[00:06:13]I could have.

[00:06:21]Ain't easy to drive fast, man.

[00:06:27]It's like a cheat code.

[00:06:35]Oh, that's a C43. No wonder he's a little bit eager.

[00:07:06]See how this car goes.

[00:07:08]>> [laughter] >> Bonkers.

[00:07:27]Mad car.

[00:07:28]So easy. There's There's like no load on my steering wheel. Look at that.

[00:07:34]It's just that easy to drive. See?

[00:07:37]You You thought You thought it looks crazy, right? Like I need I'm struggling, right? None. Look at that.

[00:07:46]You can drive one-handed and another hand can, I don't know, do some origami or what [ __ ] That is like there's no penalty from the road, from the corners on the car. And hence, there's no uh task from the car to me to attempt to wrangle it or to manage the weight or to manage my throttle. None.

[00:08:17]None.

[00:08:18]But at the same time, it gave me all the road information, all the steering inputs weighing that I need.

[00:08:28]It's a it's a cheat code.

[00:08:33]It's amazing what they did with this car.

[00:08:40]Look at that.

[00:08:42]Just pulls.

[00:08:44]It just pulls and pulls and pulls and uh okay, let's try again.

[00:08:48]But this another speed bump.

[00:08:58]It's just so fast.

[00:09:01]Okay, last speed bump.

[00:09:05]Uh okay.

[00:09:07]Let's go.

[00:09:10]My god, this is supercar levels of performance.

[00:09:16]Look at that.

[00:09:18]>> [laughter] >> What is this? This is wizardry.

[00:09:27]Cheat code.

[00:09:29]And it's easy. See, it's light on the brakes. It's light on everything. When your car is lightweight, there is just There's so little Again, I'm going to use the word There's so little penalty on the car.

[00:09:51]Because it's I'm holding the steering with two fingers and I can just about It's so easy.

[00:10:08]Speeding.

[00:10:13]I need gear.

[00:10:19]My god.

[00:10:25]This is This is cheat code.

[00:10:28]>> [laughter] >> It's cheat code.

[00:10:31]How can a car be so easy to drive?

[00:10:34]The traction control comes in, the nanny comes in.

[00:10:37]That's what Thomas reminded me of to go into sport mode to turn off the traction.

[00:10:47]But I will try and manage the car without the traction coming in my best as best I can.

[00:10:55]So easy to drive.

[00:11:02]It really is not my skill. It's not me who is so good at driving.

[00:11:09]Look at that.

[00:11:10]I keep feeling the traction control ka-chak ka-chak coming in.

[00:11:21]See that? It's nothing.

[00:11:26]Nothing.

[00:12:12]>> Yeah, the traction control keeps coming in.

[00:12:18]I'm not doing this on purpose.

[00:12:21]It's not that I'm trying to, you know, show off or what, but I'm just trying to show you guys that how easy it is to to drive this car that fast.

[00:12:34]It's so easy.

[00:12:49]I don't know, man. After a while, I felt Yes, this car is created so that you get the best times on a track with the smallest package that that is a usable daily car.

[00:13:06]But if they do this and then they sell it at a low price, then it's kudos. It's champion.

[00:13:10]But they sold it at a very high price.

[00:13:12]Then at a very high price, is this is this then a a wonderful track car?

[00:13:19]Maybe it is, but is a Lotus even better?

[00:13:24]Then comes back to another question. So, what is the pursuit of this car?

[00:13:28]Absolute track times or driver engagement? If it is driver engagement, then there are a lot more things that could be done with this car that gives you driver enjoyment, right?

[00:13:44]A good manual transmission could be one.

[00:13:49]I'm giving him room because he needs more more room to brake.

[00:13:53]>> [laughter] >> Look at how the car can corner.

[00:14:10]>> [snorts] >> I don't know, man.

[00:14:16]>> [sighs] >> I just felt it's too point and shoot, point and shoot, and it's too so easy.

[00:14:23]Maybe I'm not driving fast enough, right? Then you have to go to the track.

[00:14:30]But by any measure, this is such a crazy capable car that anyone can just come in and be a superhero.

[00:14:42]Oh.

[00:14:56]Interesting, very interesting car.

[00:15:13]Okay, highway time. Nothing to enjoy anymore.

[00:15:17]All right.

[00:15:19]It's a comfortable car. It's a comfortable car, super easy to drive, super good looking, super fast on the twisties.

[00:15:27]Yeah.

[00:15:37]But not my type of car.

[00:15:49]Yeah, not my type of car.

[00:15:55]Take note, I'm not judging this car on a on a very fair basis currently. I'm It's a fantastic, good, crazy car.

[00:16:06]But as a personal pursuit it's not my pursuit.

[00:16:15]There are a lot of people who want who want to enjoy amazing, capable sports cars. This is for them.

[00:16:25]All right, it's way more capable than a Supra.

[00:16:29]Way more capable than a Supra.

[00:16:32]Maybe not as fast in the straight lines.

[00:16:36]But yeah.

[00:16:38]But there's the rest of the things, you know.

[00:16:42]Okay, [snorts] cheers.

[00:16:46]>> Slightly mid, right?

[00:16:47]>> Yeah.

[00:16:47]Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it's it's supercar speed here, this car.

[00:16:51]>> This car is faster than anything that my spider will do.

[00:16:53]>> Yeah, it's supercar speed. It's super duper fast.

[00:16:56]You know, when it's going fast, right?

[00:16:59]I purposely do this in the video, hold the steering wheel just three fingers.

[00:17:03]Another hand just leave it there.

[00:17:05]>> Wow.

[00:17:06]>> I said, "What the fuck?" So damn easy to drive WITH THE CAR.

[00:17:10]>> [laughter] >> NICE, MAN.

[00:17:12]>> IT That's That's to the car, right? Huh? The road like that only. I give me something harder.

[00:17:18]Yeah. Give me something harder. Come on.

[00:17:20]Push more. What are you doing? You know?

[00:17:23]You You are not qualified to push me.

[00:17:27]Yeah. Because to me these are easy peasy stuff.

[00:17:30]That's what the car is telling me. Yeah, Bobby you suck.

[00:17:34]Yeah.

[00:17:36]Yeah.

[00:17:39]This car is like You see the two cars in front, two lanes? There must be a gap somewhere.

[00:17:43]>> [laughter] >> Go for it.

[00:17:46]You [ __ ] You should go for it. Yeah, that's what this car is telling me.

[00:17:53]It's crazy.

[00:17:56]Yeah, I I told you last time, right?

[00:17:58]It's a baby McLaren, right? This car is a baby McLaren.

[00:18:01]Yeah.

[00:18:04]It's a baby McLaren.

[00:18:06]Yeah.

[00:18:07]>> All right, bro.

[00:18:08]>> All right, bro.

[00:18:10]Thank you for the Alpine.

[00:18:15]Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:18:17]Cuz it handles so well, it needs more power.

[00:18:20]Yeah.

[00:18:27]No, you're you're used to supercars.

[00:18:30]You're used to supercars. You know, he he's allergic to cars below 200 horsepower now.

[00:18:35]Anything below, right? He's like But different, man. This It's performing like a 600 horsepower car.

[00:18:44]That's what it does. It does, right?

[00:18:46]Yeah.

[00:18:46]It is It is performing like a 600 horsepower car. Yeah. That's how crazy it is.

[00:18:52]Yeah.

[00:18:59]Yeah.

[00:19:05]And it And this one don't need revs to build speed.

[00:19:09]It's immediate.

[00:19:11]Immediate speed. Yeah. Yeah, it's immediate. Yeah.

[00:19:14]Like last time you chase me in your spider, I was driving my RS6, I can try my best to not let you overtake. This one cannot. You sure overtake me. 100%.

[00:19:24]>> In a non [ __ ] fly everywhere, how do I chase you?

[00:19:28]>> No, they are different.

[00:19:29]>> [laughter] >> That because got I got another task.

[00:19:33]>> 600 600 horsepower. You cannot close that gap.

[00:19:36]>> The one the the light pole is calling me.

[00:19:40]>> STREET STREET LIGHT STREET LIGHT CANNOT OVERTAKE. Street light is cannot overtake.

[00:19:44]>> Yeah.