In times of restrictions and cost-cutting, guess what sort of cars are the most vulnerable? It's those models that don't bring in a lot of sales and which, at the same time, are expensive to produce. Most often than not, those victims identify themselves as sports cars.

Let's take the Alpine A110, for example. So far, it was able to elude its demise as the Dieppe plant won't get shut down. The future, however, holds no good news for the A110.

We'll get four more years with the Alpine A110, that's for sure

Renault announced a massive $2.2-billion cost-cutting plan recently and some of the carmaker's plants in France were said to be under threat as the company is looking to lay off 15,000 employees around the world.

For now. However, the A110 might not live to see another generation. How do we know?

Well, ingrained in Renault's press release that addresses its cost-cutting strategy there's a possible scenario that goes like this: "open reflection on the reconversion of the Dieppe plant at the end of the production of the Alpine A110."

What can that mean? For starters, it's obvious that the A110 will be let to see out its planned seven-year career. The sports car saw daylight in 2017, which means that production should 'naturally' end in 2024. After that, well, it looks like Renault's head honchos will have to decide whether the A110 will get a successor or not.

The good news is that we'll still have the Alpine A110 around for four years but the bad news is that the sports car that was supposed to give the Porsche Cayman a run for its money might not make it out alive come 2024. Either way, time and the economic climate will tell.