What is 2025's best affordable fun EV? | Alpine A290 vs Mini Cooper SE vs Cupra Born VZ

Опубликовано 7 марта 2025, 12:30

The age of the electric hot hatchback is finally dawning, and it's been ushered in by the hotly anticipated Alpine A290, the performance-brand version of the Renault 5. And, if you've been waiting to find out just out far this specially engineered fast French front-driver moves the class standard for affordable electric drivers cars, you are about to.

Autocar's Matt Saunders, Jonathan Bryce and Illya Verpraet compare the new Alpine with its key rivals: the Mini Cooper SE Sport, and Cupra Born VZ. The flowing country roads of the Peak District are our stage for the exercise, as part of which each tester explains the relative strengths and weaknesses of each car, before getting together to argue them out, and ultimately pick a winner.

If you want a fun all-electric weekend car to lift your mood and stir your enthusiasm, this could be the best video you watch all year.Autocar, the world's leading motoring magazine and website, delivers industry-leading news, the most in-depth car reviews and opinion from our team of experts. Our presenters include some of the world's top motoring journalists who have unrivalled access to the world's fastest, rarest, most exotic and most exciting cars on some of the world's best roads and race tracks.

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