Mazda MX-5 as you know is a brilliant sports car. Now imagine it with Alfa Romeo looks and an Alfa badge. This dream is turning into reality.
Alfa is developing a new Spider to pick up where the Brera Spider – now deceased – left. The Brera was an unbelievably gorgeous car, but it always felt heavy and slow and nothing like a sportscar it should have been.
The new Spider is said to be a true successor to the ‘Graduate’ Alfa Spider of 1960s. Alfa has learned its lesson with the Brera so they are shifting focus to lightness and compact size with this new model. They will follow Mazda Mx-5’s recipe of sense and simplicity.
The new Spider will be powered by a detuned version of the Giulietta Cloverleaf’s 1.7-litre with around 150 bhp, which is fairly enough to deliver good performance, as long as they keep the weight of the car down.
Alfa’s MX-5 will almost certainly be more expensive than the Mazda. But it will look great – because it’s an Alfa – drive well, and will be efficient. And at the end of the day, it’s an Alfa!
Source: AutoExpress
A pity that the Americans haven’t really seen anything. The rest of us have had the pleasure of the 159 series, GT, Mito, Giulietta ,,, and so forth. Those that have them, love them. I agree that it is about time that A.R. made a return there.
Is anyone expected to really believe all this stuff. The only real thing that has come from Alfa this past decade is promises of a US return and lots of conceptual drawings. Alfa has become a company that produces drawings of fictional Alfa Romeos.
Maybe they should call their new sports car the “Unicorn”.