Alfa Romeo to build the beautiful 8C Competizione ?
posted: Saturday 04 March 2006 by Luca in: Alfa Romeo Coupe Future Cars
This might be the best news of the year to come out from Alfa Romeo: it’s likely that the incredible Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione will be built.
The quote by Antonio Baravalle, Alfa Romeo brand manager:
‘It is my dream to do it [the 8C]. We have cut the budget for our advertising campaign and will do the 8C instead, because it is a perfect way to promote the Alfa brand. Sergio Marchionne [president of Fiat Auto] says if the figures add up, do it.’ .
This is the kind of words we like to hear! And we really hope that the dream won’t remain only that. The objective is to have a production-ready version of the 8C for the Paris auto show in september, where orders could be taken for a 500-unit production run. For now the talk is only about the Coupè version, but it seems that the awesome 8C Spider is another of Mr Baravalle’s dreams!
Details are still to be finalised, but, like the concept, the body is likely to be carbon-fiber, on a spaceframe chassis. The engine will be based on a Ferrari/Maserati V8 and according to Baravalle it will be “more like Ferrari than Maserati”. The objective is a 440 hp engine. Price is still a mistery, but it’s likely to be quite high.
You can find a complete image and sketch gallery of the 8C on Virtual Car. The Centro Stile Alfa has a video of the 8C Competizione Concept, while on Autopareri you can find an image gallery of the 8C Spider.
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RobiNZ Personal Blog
05 Mar 2006 - 07:16 - #1Spend less on ad’s and build it! Alfa have a choice, spend on advertising or build this. They may be going to make the right decision.
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21 Mar 2006 - 08:29 - #2Alfa 8C rumours recycled Big false alarm yesterday regarding the beautiful Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione. An old article saying that production had been axed from english magazine Autocar (end of 2004) started going around as if it was new, aided by the fact that it was reprodu…
John Bryans Fontaine
21 Mar 2006 - 22:40 - #3I am heartened that Alfa Romeo will actually build the 8c Competizione. Not to have built this car, which is as good looking as the Brera, would have been a major shame.
Alfa could earn a furtune just with the royalties in licensing Model companies to pruduce scale models and kits of the 8c Competizione. As well as the Brera.
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