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more about #competizione more comments → SwatLax: What a gorgeous car. This is a couple years old, but I still use this picture from Winding Road of the P4/5 as my desktop wallpaper: [media.nextauto... more » Pessimippopotamus: It probably won't have Ferrari or Pininfarina badging. Which surely makes the project a bit pointless, no? more » area_educator: I pretty well hated Glickenhaus's P4/5. But the earlier renderings of the Competizione really had me questioning that. Until I saw that profile view... more » Al Navarro: $3M USD to sponsor this car in the Nurburgring 24 Hour race seems like peanuts for the all the exposure it's getting. I wish Mint Advertising had the... more » bmoreDLJ: It will have a wheezy, air-cooled VW flat-four in the back. more » BigEngineSmallCar: If it is not an Enzo underneath is it really a P4/5 Competizione? A 458 Italia underneath while probably technically superior just would make it a tot... more » Plecostomus [Tyrrell]: Holy hell it looks like it wants to be a 512 or 699. more » Paul-Michael Van Hook: The problem with this design is that it simply looks like a body kit. The doors are unmistakably Corvette. That's not a bad thing, as the Corvette C... more » superveloce: "Thankfully, things start to get better once you turn her around". Winning quote. But seriously, this is an insult to both cars. Corvette has a enou... more » layabout: A Vette should look like a Vette,why copy the Italians when they're not exactly the kings of design they once were. How many people would pick new Ita... more » -
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Ferrari P4/5 Competizione: The Work In Progress Renderings
We're told the above image (and one more below) are work-in-progress renderings of Jim Glickenhaus's proposed Ferrari P4/5 Competizione. All we can say is... damn! More » -
#customcars
Corvette-Based SV 9 Competizione Wants Desperately To Be Italiani
The Corvette-based limited edition SV 9 Competizione wants desperately to emulate an Alfa Romeo 8C Competzione with its carbon fibered re-skin. American V8 grunt mixed with Italian sensuality? How could it possibly go wrong? More »
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#alfaromeo8ccompetizione
Alfa Romeo Officially Returns To US Market This Month With 8C Competizione
Alfa Romeo made it official a year ago when they announced plans to return to the US auto market after a 13-year cooling-off period. But now it's actually here, as the Italian automaker begins to rekindle its romance with the US auto market later this month, when they import 84 copies of its exclusive Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione. The lusty — and already spoken-for — sports cars will be made available through the existing Maserati dealer network, with another run of 8C Competizione Spyders and 8C Competizione GTAs planned as well. As we've already told you — this impromptu return may act as the lead for additional models to hit US shores in the late-2009/early-2010 time frame (right about when the DOW will hit 200 and gas will be hovering around $9 a gallon). So that'll work well. More » -
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Alfa Romeo Mi.To Meets 8C Competizione In Photo Studio, Wants Some Attention Too
This is what's known in the industry as the Halo effect. Believe it or not, Alfa Romeo aren't making the 8C Competizione because they lay awake at night dreaming about the color red combined with 450bhp V8s, but because their accountants spend all day figuring out what building such a vehicle will have on the sales of bread and butter models like the Mi.To hatch. We're pleasantly surprised to see so many design similarities between the Alfa we can afford and the one we can't, well, from the front and rear at least. Mi.To sales start in Europe this July with engines ranging from 95-155bhp. The 8C should be making it stateside later this year, heralding a return to the country for the brand, lets hope the Mi.To will follow. [via Autoblog.it] More » -
#industrynews
Alfa Romeo Wants To Save US Automakers From Empty Assembly Lines
We already knew Fiat's Alfa Romeo was bringing the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione to the US and using the Maserati distribution network to do it. We'd also heard one option Fiat was discussing was creation of a new plant in Mexico to supply North America with volume models like the 159 sedan and upcoming Mi.To and 149 hatchbacks. But what we didn't know, if the coy allusions made in an article appearing in today's Financial Times are to be believed, is that Fiat CEO Sergio "March Madness" Marchionne may be looking at snatching up excess capacity at US automakers. More » -
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Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Spider Set for 2009 Launch
Good news for the SPF-zero set. That concept version the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione sans top, shown at the Pebble Beach Concourse back in 2005, will debut in production for in 2009. That from Automotive News, which reported on a Wall Street preso in New York by Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne. The coupe, which went on sale in Europe earlier this month, will hit US shores in mid-2008. That, to coincide with Alfa's return to the states — where it's been absent since 1995. The spider convertible will meet the coupe in production volume — that is, 500 units. That's far too low to satisfy all the world's Alfisi. Expect unrest. [Automotive News via Motor Authority] -
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We Enjoyed The Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione More Than Her Anyway
While one of us was spending his time with a lady named Alfa at the Meadowbrook Concours d'Elegance press preview — another publication was busy checking out some other ladies. We however, know the difference between high class and not-so-much — of course that may be because we once dated the one on the left. [Autoblog] -
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Mama Mia! The Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Is Beautiful Like-a The Nature
Ah, now this is more like it — the beauty of the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione cannot be contained by a mere studio. No, it must be free. It must be out of doors. It must merge its beauty with the beauty of nature. Much like it's doing in these highly p-chopped press shots from Alfa Romeo. And fear not, lovers of the 8C Competizione, there is more coming — just keep your peepers peeled at our tag.
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The Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Gives Us A Fever Even In A Sterile Studio
As Maximum Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Day continues, we're now onto the press photos released by the kind folks at the Italian automaker. For the first grouping, here are the on-set exterior press shots. They're nice, yes — but as I'm sure you can tell — if it weren't for the fact that it's the 8C Competizione, they'd be kinda plain. But because it's the Alfa Romeo phallic supercar — we're just gaga.
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Hey, Grandma! I've Got Some Wheels, Wanna Race?
Don't think we didn't notice the obvious hilarity in this shot we took yesterday at the US reveal of the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione. The best part — the driver of the $200,000-plus supercar was revving his engine. This "race" is kind of like our way of showing Maximum Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Day is totally in full gear — and don't worry — more is coming, just keep your eyes on the tag. Oh, and if you're looking for a High-Res shot of "the race" — we've got that too — right here.
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#theresastormfrontcoming
Get Thee Ready For Maximum Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Day
Given the amount of interest generated in our first-glance at the stateside release of the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, one of us is dedicating himself to providing an absolute heap of content tomorrow on the first Alfa Romeo for US streets since 1995. So yeah, there's a storm front coming kids, can ya feel that chill on the air? If you do — watch the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione tag all day tomorrow for all the sweet Italian action.
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#nowreadyforprimetime
Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Stateside Debut
We're out here on the rolling Rochester Hills at the site of this weekend's Meadowbrook Concours d'Elegance for the US press reveal of the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione. But just as important as showing the 159,300 euro (Alfa folks claim the US price will be over $200K when it hits here late in 2008), 450 HP V8-powered supercar, for the Alfa Romeo folks this is the first event for a US-bound Alfa Romeo since the halcyon days of yesterday — and by yesterday we mean 1995. We'll stop talking and let you soak in the crimson-colored beauty of these shots. More » -
#alfabeta
Report: Alfa Coming to US in 2009, Bringing 8C, Brera, Spider
Oh good — Fiat's so flush, it's sending Alfa to the states earlier than expected. In fact, the UK's Just Auto says we'll start seeing launch activity by the end of 2008. The mag's also making with new details about the lineup. We already knew the 8C Competizione and its Spider sibling will be the halo cars — as if we could get our mitts on one (the first run of 500 each are reportedly accounted for). For us plebes, Alfa will bring the Alfa Romeo Brera and Spider. And in 2010, the new 159 sedan will take on Audi and BMW. Look for the first rumblings midyear '08 as Maserati gears up to ride Alfa in on its back. More » -
#spyphotos
Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione at the 'Ring
Sure, we've seen Alfa Romeo's 8C Competizione a few times up close, and had to cower like Quasimoto in its Esmeralda-like presence. Now it's out being flogged on Germany's Nürburgring, which is likely quite a vision. Say spies, this proto version offers a few mild changes, including air intakes, a softening around the edges and more substantial A pillars. Underhood is a 450-hp eight whose voice we're hearing in our mind's ear as a combination of The Magic Flute and a Ferrari F430. More » -
#clips
Tease Tease Tease: More Video of the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione
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#news
Cold Shower Coming Up: Alfa Romeo Launches 8C Competizione Minisite
As if we needed any more teasing by the CTs at Alfa Romeo. Yeah, yeah, all the 8C Competizione models destined for production are spoken for. And yeah, it'll be 200 something grand. But did they have to design it to mimic Natalia Estrada on holiday by the Adriatic? Next thing, we'll be watching the Alfa studio with a telephoto lens from across the street, hoping to catch the fleetingest glimpse of bare sheetmetal. You are wrong, Alfa, dead wrong. More » -
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Alfa Romeo Bringing Spider Concept to Pebble Beach
Italy's Autoblog.it notes that Alfa will be bringing a new concept roadster (purrrrr) to this year's Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance. Dubbed the 8C Spider, the two-seater was derived from the company's 8C Competizione coupe, whose on-again, off-again production plans have bred thoughts of self-immolation for millions of car nuts (ok, us). Dare they tease us without thoughts of bringing the thing to market eventually? Could they possibly be so cruel? More »
