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…
