1966–present
The Spider That Outlasted Its Own Decade
At the 1966 Geneva Motor Show, Alfa Romeo rolled out a car with no name. The 1600 Spider on the stand had been shaped by Pininfarina, the last design Battista 'Pinin' Farina himself would personally oversee, with a tapering, rounded rear deck that earned it the nickname 'boat-tail.' Alfa ran a public naming contest…
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2008–2020
Carbon, Crisis, and a Return to First Principles: Alfa's 8C and 4C
When Alfa Romeo rolled a low, carbon-bodied coupe called the 8C Competizione onto the Frankfurt show stand in 2003, it was a concept in the most literal sense: a statement of what the brand still believed it could be. The name reached back to the supercharged straight-eight racing cars of the 1930s, but the substance…
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