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John Mahoney23 Jun 2015
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MORE PICS: Renault Alpine leaked

Long-awaited French sports car spotted on patent office's website as Alpine celebrates at Goodwood

New images of Renault’s new Audi TT rival have surfaced on a patent office’s website, showing the new Alpine coupe without its Le Mans livery disguise.

Filed as far back as December 2014 with the World Intellectual Property Organization, the new images were found by French magazine L’Automobile Magazine this week and show details that were difficult to pick out on the Le Mans show car.

Details like the LED headlight and tail-lamp signatures, and a hexagon-shaped central exhaust and tamer rear diffuser.

The images are thought to be a faithful indication of how the production car will look.

Renault hasn’t revealed what will power its new coupe, but the safe money is it will get a 185kW version of the 1.6-litre turbocharged petrol that powers the Clio RS 200. Like the small hatch, the coupe will also almost certainly gain the RS 200’s dual-clutch automatic ‘box too.

Renault is expected to release more Alpine-related news this week as its new coupe will play a starring role at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK, where 60 years of Alpine road and race cars will be displayed. Pictured here in order are the Alpine A110 1300, A442B, M65, A450B, A106, A108 Interlagos and the Alpine Celebration Le Mans concept.

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