Cool car but we’ll never see it here in America. pitty.

haha serves you right, should be a real stunner when it comes out definetly looking forwad to it cant wait

because its european its great but its not and its ugly and unreliable

Gorgeous car. I thought this was the Alpha that was leading the charge of their re-entry into the NA market?

what would people think if gm made a car that ugly that front is HORRIBLE period italians have stlye my ass

The car looks substantially the same as the production. the A pillars are a little wider, but it doesn’t change the look very much. I think it looks great. Too bad it costs over 100,000. Will be cool to see Alfas on the road again in 2010. This is basically a Maserati styled by Alfa Romeo.

its not all that ugly in a viper/599/vette sort of way.
i`m sure the interior will be pretty nice, sitting on side of the road waiting for a tow truck you need to be comfortable rite?
seriously though i would like to see this on our side of the pond, nothing wrong with variety.

“in a viper/599/vette sort of way”

what?

While Detroit prefers Door Stop shapes (Vette) or sucking up to Pimps in the Hood, the Italians still remember the best shapes for cars are the also best shapes for women.

look at the side profiles of all theese fr cars i mentioned , the desigh language is all the same, long hood 2 doors and a fastback. i think this is a sexy car for sure, but car designs are getting to look the same nowadays. there is not much any automaker can do rite now that hasnt been at least slightly tried and used on a different model. not to say its bad because the cars i mentioned all look fantastic in their own ways.

I would just hope that this car IS fast and not just looks it. Asking six figures for a car that will get schooled in a straight line by a Viper, and through the turns by a Cayman is not a good first impression.

Not many cars that can do both spectacularly well. Some focus on one aspect some the other and the rest go for blended performance.

I agree with CTS on this one, I can see several styling cues from other cars including the current Vette.

Sweet!

I agree CTS_Driver. The back looks like a Mazda MX-3 from the profile

looks like a Panoz from the front

jazz your rite i didnt notice that earlier.

Well, everybody is entitled to have their own opinion, but about relaibility, when you see the criticism that most of the american cars get over here, I wouldn’t say that italin cars are that unreliable. As for the rest, it will surely have a fabulous engine, nothing like american push rods, which are seen here as somewhat prehistoric pieces of junk, that burn as much fuel as a small truck, keep in mind that all commercial vehicles are diesel over here in Europe.

umm we will see it in america

———>that car does look like a Panoz Esperante in the front, and resembles a Mazda RX-7 ‘93 in the back…i love the way this car has no B pillar…,err i meant no C pillar…its different

——->that V-shaped point going down the front hood reminds me of an Enzo at first glace…the details on this car is just beautiful, the way all of them comes together….dang it, now that i’m thinkin, this car reminds me of a ferarri 612 in the front now

Great to see Alfa building real Alfas again!

I’m sorry, this makes me want to throw up. Hideous.

“Asking six figures for a car that will get schooled in a straight line by a Viper, and through the turns by a Cayman is not a good first impression.”

Then the same applies to Ferrari and Lambo… but you don’t buy cars like these for the sake of speed.

Exactly Veda,
Its all about STYLE - which going on the comments is something lots of you know nothing about
viper has no style, only braun.
Vette has a touch of style, but not alot.

599 and especially the 8C have style aplenty. I cannot think of a single GM product that has STYLE and panache like this 8C has.

It’s like stating that a beautiful Georgian 4 bedroom house isn’t worth the money since you can buy a 5 sleeper trailer on a trailer park for a fraction of the price. You kids really come out with some bull sometimes….

… and purlease don’t try and suggest Cadillac has any style either!

Alfa Romeo has a rich heritage and it shows in the styling of the new models. I hope the quality is now up to date with the Germans. The recent Alfas looked so good that Audi poached its designer Wolfgang Eggert from Alfa Centro Stile.

this cars is so hott

i have never wanted another car more

_________________________>spud, its like i said some people wouldnt know style if it fell from the sky and then run them over. LAME

WOW GUYS NOBODY SAID IT DID NOT HAVE STYLE ITS GORGEOUS, THE POINT WAS THE ENTIRE AUTO INDUSTRY IS OUT OF IDEAS THAT DONT ACCIDENTLY LOOK SIMILAR IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. OF ALL THE CAR PLATFORMS I LIKE FR COUPES THE BEST, AND ACTUALLY THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF THE BUNCH.
IT WAS JUST A CONVERSATION STARTER NOT AN ATTACK ON THE CAR. AND TO THE PUSHROD DUDE, NOT EVERY SINGLE GM CAR HAS PUSHRODS, AND NOT EVERY CAR GETS TRUCK MILEAGE SO LETS NOT START A STUPID FLAME WAR OVER DESIGN LANGUAGE, AND THE TOW TRUCK COMMENT WAS A JOKE. JEEZ PULL YOUR PANTIES FROM YOUR CRACKS AND LIGHTEN UP.

^ well maybe the american car industry is out of ideas which is hardly a surprise but the europeans are doin well and going from strength to strength. and yes all GM cars achieve pathetic mileage

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Well homie i cant fully gree, but thats because because some of the mb models and toyata and honda models are desighed here in the states, and most carmakers also have outside design teams and studios. most cars are looking great today from all companies (especially mazda)but i guess you just hate anything american so i wont try to eneterain you with this conversation.

all cars look good especiallly european cars except american cars. simple as that.

CTS DRIVER, I didn’t mean to offend anyone with the pushrod remark, the thing is that to get the same power from a pushrod engine you need a larger engine and, by definition one that burns more fuel, I was especially talking about the Corvette and the Large SUV’s. I think that for SUVS and pick-ups diesel engines should be mandatory worldwide to reduce fuel consumptions and hus CO2 emissions. As for the rest, I know that boht the High feature and the Northsatar are DOHC engines, and I jsut don’t see why GM doesn’t use them in all cars instead, before coming back to the USA, Alfa will discard its variants of the HF V6 and replace them with a new indigenous one, since this engine was badly considered among Alfisti.

This is truly a beautiful and sexy automobile. Although I have not seen it in real life, I am sure it is a stunner.

sorry EROULION i actually agree about the pushrods, they do need to consider a decent overhead cam v8 like the old lt5 corvette zr1 instead of the old played out pushrods. its hard sometimes not to get defensive and i really should have not used cap locks.

spud — the Ferrari 599GTB and this new Alfa 8C are beautiful, no doubt.. but it is hard to deny the styling resemblances to the Toyota Supra (599) and Mazda MX-3 and RX-7 (8C). Ironic that affordable Japanese cars used to emulate expensive European vehicles, now the tables seem to have turned.

Well, the car it emulates the most are Alfa’s from old, in which probably the japanese took inspiration, italians have been making fastback coupés for long, there are some other european examples as well, but Alfa has has the 33 stradale, the TZ, the Montreal, some of independent coach builders, Lancia has had them too, SAAB as well, but I do agree that car design comes up with these circular ideas from time to time.

Whoever thinks this is the best looking FR sports coupe on the market has never heard of Aston Martin.

————->Kaizen: better yet, the new Nissan GTR…

Does the six figures include the repairman’s studio apartment over your garage?

HAHHA I agree Alfas great to look at, but less reliable than a KIa or Hyundai.

a six figure alfa? bahahaha

First off, the Alfa is gorgeous. I think it’s the most original looking design in a long while. Even the newer Ferraris are looking dated…just look at the 599 - it looks incredibly uninspired. The Alfa seems much more likely to turn heads.

Now, anyone bashing pushrods needs to take a more balanced look at the engine technology. Yes, they are bulkier but they are also torquier in their nature. Furthermore, they are not necessarily fuel-hungry. One of my good friends has an 06 Corvette [non-Z06] with the LS2 engine [6.0l] putting out 400 horsepower. On the highway, he averages 26 mpg [EPA rating: 27 mpg]. I drive a 2000 Nissan Altima, with a 155 hp 2.5l engine. First off, my car has notably lower specific output [horsepower per liter] and my car’s engine is DOHC [the most common alternative to pushrods]. My car gets 27 miles per gallon on the highway [EPA rating: 28]. The Corvette has a curb weight of ~3100lbs to my Altima’s ~2900lbs.

Yes, they are different types of cars. However, your argument, Eurolion and others, is that it is a dead technology. Comparing the numbers of the Corvette’s engine to a more “modern” technology, such as that used in a fairly recent-model Japanese compact car show that the results actually favor the Corvette. The Corvette gets about the same mileage as my car and it produces ~250 more horsepower. If I were to compare the numbers to the Z06, which comes with the LS7, I think the numbers would be even more in favor of the Corvette. However, I have no real-world numbers on that.

Before you get on your pedestal and start ripping on different types of engineering, please actually research before you make it apparent how ignorant you are. By saying that the Corvette “burns as much fuel as a small truck” when a real-world Corvette driver can get 26 mpg and the EPA can rate it at 27 mpg. Show me a small truck with that kind of mileage while putting out 400 hp and I frankly will be very impressed.

Long story short: Don’t pretend to know what you are talking about when you don’t have an iota of truth in your statement. Thank you.