An honor, a pride, the three representatives of the Departmental Road Safety Squadron de l’Indre were particularly happy this Friday (17/12) to be among the first two brigades of France to symbolically receive the keys to all new Alpine 110 during a handover ceremony in the Court of the Ministry of the Interior.
– © Gendarmerie de l’Indre
In total, 26 brand new Alpines will soon replace, throughout France, the famous, but aging, Mégane RS rapid intervention teams of the gendarmerie. And so these are the gendarmes of Châteauroux, with those of Salon-de-Provence in the Bouches-du-Rhône, who will benefit first.
Replacing the Mégane RS
The vehicle, already emblematic, is directly inspired by the legendary Alpine 110 of the 60s and 70s which already, in its time, had equipped the national gendarmerie. The new car has of course nothing to envy to its prestigious predecessor. With 252 horses for a little over 1100 kilos, she is capable of reaching 250 to 260 km / h peak and accelerates from 0 to 100 km / h in just 4.5 seconds.
– © Gendarmerie de l’Indre
New equipment that is part of the renewal of the national gendarmerie vehicle fleet, accelerated by the recovery plan and the Beauvau safety follow-up.
In service at the start of 2022
However, we will still have to wait to see the formidable intervention vehicle on the roads of the Indre. The Alpine is due for delivery during the first quarter of 2022 in the Indre. A timely arrival: the current Mégane RS of the Indre road safety squadron still has more than 300,000 km on its counter in 10 years of service.