So svelte, so red, so Italian. Good God, it's my wet dream come true! Italians do it better.

I'd have Sophia Loren airbrushed on the hood though.

Love the ad but wish they'd let us hear the engine

Good God, I'm not going to get any work done today.

Oh Dear. My underpants. Yuk.

I'd say that looks better than any Ferrari out right now, and it looks better than almost every lambo I've ever seen.

I'm not saying it's going to be better performance wise, just looks.

It's very sexy.

Amazing ad.

my only quibble with this beauty, don't you think something with 450 horses should have bigger rubber? It looked it it was only running maybe 235s out front and maybe 255 or 265's out the back.

wouldn't stop me from buying it though, if I had the money.

All that's missing now is Davy posting about how he actually prefers a 1978 Alfasud over this car...

Wow. That is stunning.

How soon can we get factory gold wheels to ape the ones on the Giulia TZ in the video? Gold and red I normally consider a gaudy combination, but here it would be just perfect.

Also, death to the first a-hole that wrecks one of these. Hopefully they don't let Understeer Brother anywhere near one.

And, I was not aware that this existed! For some reason this tops the Lambo SUV in my mind.

@rognbrow: Word.

Ah well, screwed up the html so here's a regular link for my comment above:

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My day can get no better than this, it's like morning wood. This car is absolutely beautiful, it should be in the JFG like right friggin now.

is it com-peh-ti-ZEE-own-eh?

Without a doubt in my mind, this is the most beautiful car in the world today. Wait, it is not a car. It is a red-blooded, dark-haired, wide-hipped Italian woman in her late 20s with 450hp up her.. well, you know what.

You can tell this was done by non-native English speakers because one super says "Technology Excellence"...should be "Technological Excellence" or, the manner of Bill and Ted, "Technology, Excellent"

Yes, I am putting it under a microscope. I have my reasons.
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But other than this quibble (and the somewhat larger problem of not hearing the engine over the nuovo-age soundtrack) and my Dragon-induced sensitivity to not crossing the double yellow/solid white, it's 100000% better than that CRAP Porker GT2 video you guys aired last week. How much better? Well, let's just say that at one point I was thinking "This is cool but they have to hang the tail out more" and then the driver did exactly that.

This car will be the cause of many a divorce. It's not a car, it's a mistress.

@Al Navarro: And what a beautiful tail they hung out.

I think my day's done now. No more Jalop - nothing can compare. I doubt I'll be able to focus on work, either, and I have a lot to get done.

sigh.... How many aluminum cans do I need to collect to turn in for one of these?

No transaxle?

I'm only buying three.

...can't breathe...*gasp* (collapse)

Jeeves, would you be so kind as to fetch me a towel? I seem to have spooged myself something terrible.

Hello, Geico, yeah, I'd like to get a quote on comprehensive for a, uh, Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione... oh, I see. So how much is it for daily installments?

@brandegee: aye! but when you can afford 200 large for the car, the insurance and gas are but a pittance.

Unless you define 'afford' as 'forgoing all other expenses (food, housing, spousal care, etc.) I can eke out the payment on a 9-year lease by working 161 hours per week'

Gorgeous car...particularly in the video. It's too bad that the front bumper clip is handled so clumsily on the US-bound version (particularly the transition between the top of the bumper above the grille, and the hood itself). Kind of reminds me of some of the early Lamborghini Countach's that made it to this side of the pond only to have big blocks of black rubber attached as bumperettes.

Whats the deal with the ugly black scab behind the front wheels (that I keep harping on in this forum)? In some shots its there, in others, not so much.

Is it just a piece of ticky-tack plastic trim that fell off at some point during filming and nobody noticed? If so, I hate it even more.

(Still love the car, though)

Wow......gorgeous.

::drool::

god this makes me miss going to historics. it looks exactly like the TZ2 [www.supercars.net] that i used to think was funny looking ... except it's gorgeous. how does that work?

seriously, can someone do a side by side of the 8C and the TZ2?

I'm gonna sell my parent's house for this, and then my parents.

@Vega: My coworkers are giving me strange looks from my spontaneous burst of laughter. Nice.

You know, sometimes I berate myself for not starting a family, and my only consolation is, "Well, at least I saved a bunch of money," which I always considered an awful trade-off.

Until now. A few more decades and I'll have saved enough for one of these... at the 2007 price.

@Lascauxcaveman

Hmm. I'm kinda split on this one. I like the idea of a vent of some sort being there, but when I imagine it gone, the car looks pretty good, too.

I imagine that without the vent there'd be an odd concave hollow spot on the surface and lots of highlights would sort of pinch together there. It really needs a vent, emblem, turn signal or something to be there if they want to keep the ridge that comes off the front fender lip.

All they have to do is get it in a James Bond movie, and convince a few celebrities to drive it around Beverly Hills.

@Seccotine:
The 8C is the bastard child of a TZ1, TZ2, 33 Stradale (which is, to me, one of the most beautiful cars ever penned by Scaglione)with some pre-war goodness tossed in.

The black trim right behind the front wheel wells is a styling cue taking from some of the 33 Stradales:

1967 33 Stradale

The 8C in the title is a reference to the pre-war glory days of the ground shaking unbeatable 8 cyl competition Alfas.

@ShellyMason:
You mean, that's all they need to ruin the appeal?

shhhh...

i feel a tear coming on.