{"id":9896,"date":"2020-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/alfa-romeo-8c-spider-2\/"},"modified":"2020-12-07T16:15:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:15:37","slug":"alfa-romeo-8c-spider-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/alfa-romeo-8c-spider-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfa Romeo 8C Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the pre-war years, Alfa Romeo was well-known for powerful sports cars that were used successfully in motorsport worldwide. With numerous variants of the 6C and the later 8C offshoots, they also established a good reputation among private sports car drivers. After World War 2, this programme was continued with cars like the Tipo 33. However, the general model portfolio was shifted downwards into the mass market, which meant that for several decades street sports cars weren’t part of the portfolio – apart from the legendary Montreal. After difficult times, which had led to the sale of the brand to the Fiat group in 1986 and subsequently in front-wheel drive vehicles with Fiat platforms, Alfa Romeo presented a sports car study called 8C Competizione at the IAA 2003, which came as a complete surprise to many observers.

The styling of this two-seater coup\u00e9, which was designed in the company’s own Centro Stile by the then head of design Wolfgang Egger, were strongly based on the 33 Stradale and the TZ from the 1960s. Beautiful curves, headlights hidden behind clear glass covers and round taillights immediately appealed to many sports car fans, who approached the stand personnel with order requests. However, the 8C was in fact originally only regarded as a pure concept car with no chance of series production. Worldwide interest didn’t stop after the motor show and finally led to the decision within the management boards of Fiat and Alfa Romeo to bring the sports car into small series production. For this purpose, development aid from the group brands Maserati and Ferrari was used. The production car presented in 2007 used the shortened platform of the Maserati Coup\u00e9 and the 4.7-liter naturally aspirated V8 engine from the successor model GranTurismo. Compared to the concept car, the body was slightly enlarged and made of carbon fiber. Production of the car took place at the Maserati plant in Modena, while the engines were produced at Ferrari in Maranello.<\/p>\n\n\n

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