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Alpine A110 1600 SC Blue Kyosho 1:18

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Alpine A110 1600 SC Blue Kyosho 1:18 08482BL Diecast
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Kyosho's 1:18 die-cast Alpine A110 1600 SC, finished in blue, reproduces the lightweight French rally coupe built around a fiberglass body and steel backbone chassis, the formula that carried Alpine to the first World Rally Championship manufacturers' title in 1973. Opening doors and hood expose a compact cast interior. A cornerstone piece for a European rally collection built around the earliest years of the WRC.
Alpine A110 1600 SC Blue Kyosho 1:18
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Brand
Alpine
Manufacturer
Kyosho
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
08482BL
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About the Alpine A110 1600 SC Blue Kyosho 1:18

TL;DR: Kyosho's 1:18 die-cast Alpine A110 1600 SC, finished in blue, reproduces the lightweight French rally coupe built on a fiberglass body over a steel backbone chassis. That formula carried Alpine to the first World Rally Championship manufacturers' title in 1973. Opening doors and hood reveal a compact cast interior at standard mid-tier pricing.

The World Rally Championship needed a first champion, and a tiny French coupe barely heavier than a modern hatchback got there before Lancia, Fiat, or anyone else. Kyosho's die-cast returns to that formative moment.

Alpine's Lightweight Formula and the First WRC Title

Fiberglass Body Over a Steel Backbone Chassis

Jean Rédélé built Alpine's A110 around a philosophy borrowed directly from his own rallying background: keep weight down rather than chase raw power, and the car will out-handle far more powerful rivals on twisting rally stages. Rédélé had raced Renaults himself in the early 1950s, and the lessons he learned about tire wear and weight distribution on mountain roads shaped the A110's design as directly as any engineering brief could. The lightweight fiberglass body sat over a steel backbone chassis borrowed from Renault mechanicals, an approach that let Alpine extract genuine rally-winning performance from comparatively modest engine displacement.

Winning the Inaugural World Rally Championship

When the FIA formalized the World Rally Championship for the 1973 season, Alpine's A110 was already a proven rally winner across Europe, and the marque carried that form straight into the new championship to claim the inaugural manufacturers' title. That victory came before Lancia, Fiat, or Ford established the dominant rally programs collectors associate with the sport today, making the A110's championship a genuinely foundational moment in WRC history rather than a footnote.

Kyosho's Die-Cast Build of a Featherweight Rally Coupe

Opening Panels and Compact Cast Interior

Kyosho builds the A110 in die-cast metal, and the weight in hand confirms genuine zinc alloy construction, an interesting contrast given how the real car chased the opposite goal. Doors and hood open on metal hinges to reveal a compact cast dashboard and the A110's small rear-mounted engine bay, the interior-access trade-off die-cast construction makes across this catalog. Panel gaps around the opening features sit slightly wider than a sealed resin equivalent would show, the standard cost of a genuinely opening body.

Blue Paint and the A110's Bug-Eye Profile

The blue finish sets off the A110's distinctive rounded, bug-eyed headlight housings and compact rear haunches, with the trim and window surrounds picked out cleanly rather than left as unbroken color. Wheel proportions match the narrow rally tires the real car ran, preserving the A110's famously slim, purposeful stance. It stops short of the shut-line precision a specialist resin rally car would offer, but for a subject built around a car this small and distinctive, the mid-tier finish captures the profile faithfully.

An Early WRC Piece for a Rally Chronology

Placed beside the Lancia and Fiat rally cars that followed it into WRC competition, this A110 marks the genuine starting point of a chronology most rally-themed shelves build outward from, the champion the sport's other legends had to beat first. At roughly 18 centimeters, the 1:18 scale suits the A110's genuinely small real-world footprint better than most rally subjects in this catalog. Keep the blue finish away from prolonged direct sunlight, since bright period colors like this one can lose saturation faster than darker factory paint. Well-preserved original A110s have grown increasingly scarce at auction, which makes a well-detailed die-cast a sensible way to anchor a rally collection in the sport's founding season.

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