If anything else, the community here at CarScoop seems hyped about Alfa's return to its roots with the upcoming 4C series.
After one of our readers who attended an Alfa Romeo dealer meeting in Europe shared detailed information about the 4C, including preliminary pricing, production numbers and even the company's plans to expand the range with Racing, Spider and Stradale versions, another reader, Anton Gjorsev, sent us this rendering of the convertible model.
Gjorsev's Alfa Romeo 4C Spider proposal keeps the same lines as the coupe dropping the center section of the roof and the rear windshield, under which, you will find a 1.75-liter turbocharged four rated for 240PS (equal to 237hp), that's connected to a dual-clutch automatic transmission feeding the rear wheels.
We will remind you that the coupe iteration of the 4C is rumored to debut in production-ready form at next month's Geneva Motor Show.
Kudos to Anton Gjorsev for the design!
4 Comments:
love the side vents
I really hope they sort out their engine range, Alfa's achilles heel as always been the engine line up, beautiful cars like the Brera, GT and 159 lack competitive engines...the 1.7 seems to be the only engine carrying the torch.
"Alfa's achilles heel as always been the engine line up" ... are you kidding me? since when do you know alfa? i agree with the models you named, except for the gt... and all the other models before that using the greatest v6 of all time - the arese! despite its thirst and not being the lightest in its class, it had soul and produced the best 6 cylinder sound by miles! then they came up with that rubbish idea of taking a holden-developed engine block and try to make this the follow-up. since then everything went wrong... the brera concept was beautiful - the production car wasn't! the wheelbase was too short, what messed up the proportions (same with the 159, by the way). the platform was way to heavy and the interieur wasn't in alfa's tradition, instead they tried to create something more 'german' (i am from germany - so, no offense ;) - and would always choose a traditional alfa over every audi, bmw or merc... with porsche it's a different story. but back in the day alfa wasn't too far off porsche, even if bmw was the main rival). and then there are 4cyl which get the everday-job done and a horrible v6 using even more fuel than its predecessor...
i hope they finally get their act together. the 8c was a great start (except for handling and performance in comparision to the top cars of today), the 4c is a good sequel - even if find the design a little too froggy and wanna-be ferrari. but alfa now understands to go back to their roots - meaning rwd and lightweight... only get that great v6 back in the game...!
Wake up, it's 2013! You can't have an outdated 3.2l V6 (even a 3.0 or a 2.5) that wouldn't pass any emissions test.
As for the 159/Brera (a very heavy platform), you had a questionable 1.9jtd - which didn't get a much needed bi-turbo, a 2.4jtdm which wasn't on par with anything germans did, a 3.2jts which was a joke along with 1.8mpi and a 1.9jts oddities... and that was all it had for almost its entire model life.
Then they got a 1750tbi and a 2.0jts that were too little too late.
So I agree with Was_Lyrical.
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