Alfa prices up 8C, heads back to the USA (kinda)

Newswheel staff :: 17 July 2007 :: Filed under Coupe, Front engine sportscar, Alfa Romeo, Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, Europe & UK, US

Yours for a piffling 159,300 Euros: we give you the final Euro list price for the Alfa Romeo 8C uber coupe. That’s a whisker over £100,000 at current exchange rates…

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Alfa preps Quattroporte-based luxury ‘loon

Newswheel staff :: 22 November 2006 :: Filed under Saloon, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Maserati Quattroporte, Europe & UK, US

Alfa Romeo’s recent history is a litany of false dawns and aborted rebirths. So, we’re loathe to predict a real renaissance for the beleaguered Italian brand. And yet the evidence is beginning to mount up. Most tangibly, of course, Alfa officially launched the productionised 8C Competizione super coupé at the Paris show in September. Now comes a very plausible story regarding a rehashed Alfa variant of Maserati’s Quattroporte uber saloon…

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Alfa preps production 8C Competizione for Paris show

Newswheel staff :: 12 September 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Front engine sportscar, Alfa Romeo, Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, Europe & UK

The final production version of Alfa’s awesome Maserati-powered coupe will be unveiled at the Paris motor show later this month. Power comes courtesy of Maser’s familiar 90 degree bent-eight in 4.7-litre 450bhp trim…

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First drive: Alfa Spider

Newswheel staff :: 26 June 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Alfa Romeo, Alfa Romeo Spider, Europe & UK,

When Alfa Romeo launched its inordinately sassy, Pininfarina-designed Duetto Spider at the Geneva Show back in 1966 it made something of a rod for it’s own back. Such was that car’s timeless beauty that an all-new Spider didn’t appear until the mid-1990s, some three decades later. Although the most recent model’s wedge-shaped styling certainly held its head above water, it lacked the almost incomparable visual appeal of the original. Ten years on and we find ourselves at the Sicily-based press launch of the newest Spider. Now you’ll have to trust us on this, but roof either up or down, this Brera-based Spider looks even better in the metal than it does in photos…

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Alfa Romeo 8C Spider bags awards, production prospects grow

Newswheel staff :: 02 May 2006 :: Filed under Front engine sportscar, Alfa Romeo, Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, Europe & UK

First shown back in the mists of 2003 at the Frankfurt motor show, Alfa’s swoopy carbon-fibre coupe, the 8C Competizione has never been short of admirers. And in drop top format it’s picking up even more, including the judges at this year’s Villa d’Este Concours d’Elegance on the banks of Lake Como in Italy. The 8C Spider swiped the “Villa d’Este Design Award” and the “BMW Group Design Award”, both for concept cars…

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Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione: Will they, won’t they?

Newswheel staff :: 22 March 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Front engine sportscar, Alfa Romeo, Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, Europe & UK, US

A swoopy carbon fibre body bolted to a space frame chassis. And a screaming Ferrari-derived V8 mounted up front and driving the rear wheels. Yup, the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione concept, first shown at the Frankfurt show back in 2003, is a bit of a no brainer. The sort of car you’d think Alfa would be desperate to build. And so it is, according to Alfa’s new CEO Antonio Baravalle. In fact, he’s even willing to slash Alfa’s advertising budget in order to divert funds to the project. That’s the kind of fighting talk we like. Problem is, it seems the suits at Fiat HQ aren’t reading from the same script…

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Sportwagon and Spider

Newswheel staff :: 31 January 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Estate/Wagon, Alfa Romeo, Alfa Romeo 159, Alfa Romeo Spider, Europe & UK

The first official pics and deets of Alfa’s new 159 Sportwagon and Spider models have hit the deck. Both cars will make their real-deal debut in Geneva at the end of the month.

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Brera uncovered

Newswheel staff :: 08 November 2005 :: Filed under Coupe, Four wheel drive, Alfa Romeo, Alfa Romeo Brera, Europe & UK

The NDAs have lifted, the floodgates have opened and the clichés are in full flow: the first road tests of the Alfa Romeo Brera coupe are in. Earliest among the UK scribblers are Andrew Frankel for the Times and John Simister for 4Car, both wise and worldly scribes who know a chintzy front-drive Italian shed when they see one. But what do they make of this stunning new Alfa?

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