{"id":340050,"date":"2025-11-27T17:09:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/testing-the-alpine-a290-gts-is-the-r5s-performance-version-worth-the-hefty-premium\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:06:43","slug":"testing-the-alpine-a290-gts-is-the-r5s-performance-version-worth-the-hefty-premium-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/testing-the-alpine-a290-gts-is-the-r5s-performance-version-worth-the-hefty-premium-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing the Alpine A290 GTS \u2013 Is the R5\u2019s performance version worth the hefty premium?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/media\/2025\/11\/alpine-a290-fahrbericht-aufmacher-1-cropped-1400x934.jpeg\" alt=\"Alpine a fahrbericht aufmacher cropped\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 160-kW performance version of the Renault 5 carries the Alpine badge and comes with a price tag that is anything but modest. The premium over a comparable R5 exceeds 10,000 euros. However, our test drive showed that the \u201cwant-to-have\u201d effect is definitely there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2025\/11\/27\/testing-the-alpine-a290-gts-is-the-r5s-performance-version-worth-the-hefty-premium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/testing-the-alpine-a290-gts-is-the-r5s-performance-version-worth-the-hefty-premium.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Logo&#8221;&gt;The 160-kW performance version of the Renault 5 carries the Alpine badge and comes with a price tag that is anything but modest. The premium over a comparable R5 exceeds 10,000 euros. However, our test drive showed that the \u201cwant-to-have\u201d effect is definitely there&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/testing-the-alpine-a290-gts-is-the-r5s-performance-version-worth-the-hefty-premium-2\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":340052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340087,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340050\/revisions\/340087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}