The era of battery-powered hot hatchbacks is fast approaching, and with its new A290, Alpine has the ingredients ... full 217bhp to the table, with the GTS adding even more standard kit for ...

The GT and GT Premium trims come with a 130-kW (174 horsepower) motor, while the GT Performance and GTS get a beefier 160-kW (214 hp) drive unit. Alpine says the zero to 62 miles per hour sprint ...

This power figure also happens to be near-identical to that of the 217bhp Alpine A290 GTS, putting it quite some way ahead of the 148bhp Renault 5. Whether or not Cupra will offer more than one ...