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Glory Restored: Chasing the Alpine Dream (2025x4)

Air date: Jan 31, 2025

In Stuttgart, you were supposed to pick a side: Porsche or Mercedes. Jürgen Claus never did. Instead, he became obsessed with a car he only glimpsed during bike rides, a fleeting shape that disappeared as quickly as it arrived. An Alpine 110. The A110 wasn’t built with the obsessive precision of a Stuttgart engineer. It was built by French hands, refined through trial and error. In 1973, when the World Rally Championship was officially founded, the A110 took its first title. This is the story of how finding a real Works Alpine become one man’s obsession.