Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Alpine A110

Alpine A110

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Original – The Alpine A110, also known as the "Berlinette", was a sports car produced by the French manufacturer Alpine from 1961 to 1977. This Alpine A110 1300G is painted in French Blue.

Edited – The Alpine A110, without distracting car in the background.

Reason

Technically high quality; excellent EV as lead image of article. It is a FP on German Wikipedia.

Articles in which this image appears

Alpine A110, Alpine (automobile)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Land

Creator

Lothar Spurzem

• Support as nominator --Purpy Pupple (talk) 04:46, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
• Comment as for the previous nom below, image page needs to be in English to be eligible. --jjron (talk) 06:58, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for reminding me. I accidentally overlooked that since the image description only states the car's model which is not language-dependent. I have added an English description with a link to the Alpine A110 article. --Purpy Pupple (talk) 07:36, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose. Having thought about this a bit, while a decent photo there's just too many factors leading to an oppose. The main issue is that the vehicle is clearly significantly modified; for a featured image in an article on the standard vehicle I think we should try to illustrate vehicles as close as possible to factory standard. Other niggles are the number plate clearly showing (generally preferred to have it removed, or at least blurred out), the other vehicle in the background being a distraction, the driver and navigator clearly being on show, all those stickers on the rear quarter window, and sadly the main badge on the bonnet (one would assume it's meant to be an Alpine badge, though it looks like it may be a Renault badge) being completely blown out. Also there's no indication of the actual model/year of this vehicle which is very useful in terms of EV. --jjron (talk) 13:01, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

• Hmm... now that you point it out, I do see some slight modifications: some parts are painted black (edges around headlights; bonnet hinges; windshield wipers); a roll cage has been installed; a lower air intake under the front bumper; and possibly different wheels. c.f. Google Image Search. The owner may have been attempting to replicate the appearance of the rally car at 1971 in Monte Carlo. The logo does look like a Renault logo judging from File:Alpine-renault-a110-berlinette.jpg and [1]. There is an edited version without the distracting car in the background. Purpy Pupple (talk) 16:54, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:47, 6 March 2013 (UTC)