2026 Paris motor show: The CarExpert team's favourite reveals

The European-American automotive giant brought distinctive concept cars for six of its 14 brands, putting paid to rumours it's planning to offload any of them.

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But outside of this bevy of Stellantis concepts, other brands had exciting reveals of their own, from France's Renault and its Alpine performance brand to insurgent Chinese brands like luxury Avatr.

Below, the members of the CarExpert editorial team have shared their favourite reveals from this year's Paris show.

For me it’s definitely the Alfa Romeo Cuorerosso because in typical Alfa fashion, it looks amazing, makes you want to buy an Alfa (even if the brand is virtually dead in Australia) and then you read that it won’t be made into a production car.

Alpine has been controlled by Renault since 1971 – the same year I was born – and when the modern Alpine A110 was launched almost a decade ago I spent a day driving it and an example of the original (1963-1977) model in their natural habitat: winding mountain roads in France.

At the time, two things became immediately obvious. One, that Alpine had remained even more faithful to the compact, lightweight, affordable rear-wheel drive sports car formula than Porsche.

And two, that Renault has never realised the full potential of a brand created to take on performance cars like the now-iconic 911 and the Cayman/Boxster , the next generation of which will unfortunately be electric-only.

Okay, so the later A110 was mid-engined with a 1.8-litre turbo-four placed right behind the two front seats, as in the Porsche 718s, and the classic A110 had a rear-engine layout with its motor slung behind the rear axle, as in a 911.

But the point is all A110s have been small, lithe, rear-drive sports cars at a relatively affordable price, and all of them were special to drive thanks to perfect weight balance and an unfiltered, analogue experience behind the wheel.

The outgoing A110 coupe’s life was cut short in Australia by fast-tracked local side-impact regulations and, sadly, its upcoming successor will be launched in all-electric form.

However, Renault has said the next-generation A110’s new APP platform, which also underpins the stunning A310 Vision show car revealed in Paris this week, can also accommodate a combustion engine, and the A310 concept is expected to spawn at least a limited-edition production model.

If Alpine does produce combustion-powered A110 and A310 coupes, the underrated French brand will finally offer both an attainable rear-drive sports coupe and a more serious, 911-rivalling flagship supercar.

As a fan of hot hatches and a child of the Need For Speed era, this WRC-inspired hyper hatch really gets me going.