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Renaissance of lust - Alpine-Renault A 310 against Datsun 280 ZX and Porsche 924 Turbo

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Created on November 26, 1979

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Ulrich Burbach

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Sportwagen im Vergleich - Alpine-Renault A 310, Datsun 280 ZX und Porsche 924 Turbo - in den Steinbrüchen von Carrara

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Sportwagen im Vergleich - Alpine-Renault A 310, Datsun 280 ZX und Porsche 924 Turbo - auf der Titelseite des Magazines 'hobby'

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Sportwagen im Vergleich - Alpine-Renault A 310, Datsun 280 ZX und Porsche 924 Turbo - am Ziel einer längeren Reise in Florenz

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Sportwagen im Vergleich - Alpine-Renault A 310, Datsun 280 ZX und Porsche 924 Turbo - Silhouetten-Vergleich

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Sportwagen im Vergleich - Alpine-Renault A 310, Datsun 280 ZX und Porsche 924 Turbo - Armaturenbretter und Motoräume im Vergleich

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Sportwagen im Vergleich - Alpine-Renault A 310, Datsun 280 ZX und Porsche 924 Turbo - auch die Kutscher in Florenz bewundern die flachen Flundern

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - mit 170 PS wilderte der 924 bereits im 911-Revier

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - die zusätzlichen Kühlluftöffnungen verraten den Turbo

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - vom schwächeren Bruder trotz 45 Mehr-PS nicht zu unterscheiden

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - nur an Details vom normalen 924 zu unterscheiden

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - rund 0,36 betrug der Luftwiderstandsbeiwert

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - wurde gerne zweifarbig bestellt, eine Turbo-Spezialialität

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - neutrales Kurvenverhalten

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - weiterhin mi Klappscheinwerfern

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - Heck mit Spoiler

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - aerodynamisch vorteilhafte kleine Silhouette

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - Alufelgen waren Standard-Ausrüstung

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - mehr Kühlöffnungen für mehr Überhol-Prestige

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - man erkennt die Anbauteile des Turbos

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - der Turbo musste ohne Ladeluftkühler auskommen

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - Motor von der Seite gesehen

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Porsche 924 Turbo (1979) - Motor von schräg vorne gesehen

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Datsun 280 ZX Turbo (1979) - Weltpremiere des ZX Turbo, ein Einzelstück mit 200 PS und abnehmbaren Dachhälten - Internationale Automobilausstellung (IAA) in Frankfurt 1979

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Alpine-Renault A 310 V6 (1978) - Frontansicht des Sechszylindermodelles

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Alpine-Renault A 310 V6 (1978) - Heckansicht

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Alpine-Renault A 310 (1978) - typische Alpine-Farbe Ende der Siebzigerjahre

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Alpine-Renault A 310 (1984) - Titelseite eines Verkaufsprospektes

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Alpine-Renault A 310 V6 (1978) - zeitlos elegante Formgebung

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Alpine-Renault A 310 (1978) - Seitenansicht, vorne-links

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Alpine-Renault A 310 (1984) - Cockpit - Abbildung aus einem Verkaufsprospekt

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Alpine-Renault A 310 (1978) - interieur mit stoffbezogenen Sitzen

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Alpine-Renault A 310 V6 (1978) - bequem aussehende Sitze

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Alpine-Renault A 310 V6 (1978) - Durchsichtszeichnung enthüllt die Technik

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Alpine-Renault A 310 V6 (1978) - Technische Skizze; Masse

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Summary

In 1979, the magazine 'hobby' carried out a long-distance drive with three contemporary sports cars - Alpine-Renault A 310, Porsche 924 Turbo and Datsun 280 ZX. From Stuttgart to Florence and back. The focus was not on a sober comparison test, but on pure experience and emotion. This report summarizes the driving report at the time and shows how people thought about sports cars with 140 to 170 hp back then. Archive pictures show the sports cars in their heyday.

This article contains the following chapters

Different driving characteristics
Technical characteristics and performance figures

Estimated reading time: 3min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Florence, Renaissance, Michelangelo and his David, exuberant power, statues with veritable mountains of musculature. A lust for life carved in marble. 500 years ago, there were no oil derricks and certainly no politicized crisis over black gold. 500 years ago was the heyday of those who drew from the full. We don't care about 500 years. We want to cover 850 kilometers - a month's journey back then - in seven hours. Power, joie de vivre, pleasure 1979: Porsche 924 turbo, Datsun 280 ZX, Renault Alpine A 310. Sheet steel, shiny paint, covers the power like a skin. Inside, the horses wait for the spur of the throttle linkage. Stuttgart: the start and finish of this race of unreasonableness. We can't wait, not tomorrow, it starts now, at eight o'clock in the evening; there's less traffic at night anyway.

Welcome to Zwischengas!

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