Alpine A110: The Best Sportscar You Can’t Buy

Spike's Car Radio

Spike Feresten

Leisure, Automotive

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Spike and Jonny are joined by Zack Klapman from The Smoking Tire Podcast for a three-car extravaganza, reviewing the Alpine A110, Mercedes AMG GT 63 S E Performance, and Audi A3. Highlights include Jonny's hilarious story about his misadventures in Russia with Land Rover, debates on the proper pronunciation of 'Alpine,' and strong opinions on American vs French baguettes. _____________________________________________________ 🛠️ RaceDeck - Transform Your Garage Get 15% off plus free shipping with code SPIKE911 https://RaceDeck.com 🔵 BlueChew - Get Bricked Up Get your first month free with code SPIKE911 https://BlueChew.com _____________________________________________________ The team dives deep into what makes the European-exclusive Alpine A110 such a special driver's car with its impressive power-to-weight ratio and balanced handling. Spike raves about the Mercedes AMG GT 63 S E Performance's mind-bending 805 horsepower hybrid powertrain that combines supercar performance with daily driver practicality. Meanwhile, Jonny offers insights on the Audi A3's luxury features and value proposition compared to the more performance-focused S3. The episode takes entertaining detours into customs nightmares when importing cars, the dubious quality of Moscow hotel water, Russian sauna culture, results from Le Mans, and a discussion on the future of automotive technology based on a recent Wall Street Journal article. Check out Jonny's new channel, Driving With Jonny! Join Spike and the team for the upcoming live show at Pebble Beach! https://theconcoursstore.com/products/2025ccf-spike-car-radio _____________________________________________________ Produced by Skyview Entertainment & Q6 Media https://q6.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spikes Car Radio. We're doing a three-car review show. You have an Audi. I have a Mercedes.
0:06.1	And you brought the Alpine. Alpine. Let's start the show.
0:13.0	We're here with Motor Trends, Johnny Lieberman. The smoking tires, Zach Clapman, the younger generation. the guy who's taking over, the air to the smoking tires.
0:25.9	He is that old.
0:27.4	I'm one year younger than that.
0:29.8	Come on.
0:31.6	And Spike Ferrisdon, the B-movie scribe.
0:36.5	I guess I'll just pick that credit.
0:38.3	Welcome.
0:39.1	And Zach, welcome to the show.
0:40.3	Thank you.
0:40.5	Good.
0:40.9	Yeah.
0:41.3	We're happy to have you back on the show.
0:43.7	Today, we're going to be, I think, reviewing cars.
0:47.1	We all brought a car to review.
0:48.8	The first thing I'm going to ask you about it, not that I want to get into it right now, but we could.
0:52.4	We could. How do you pronounce this brand?
0:56.0	I've seen people go, Alpine there. It's not. Alpine. Alpine. Which is it? In a moment of that I regret
1:04.1	hugely. Let's see. I'm kind of friends with David Tuig. He's an author contributor to the
1:10.0	intercollar, but most importantly, he was the project lead on this car.
1:12.9	It was like an engineer.
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