Comments on: Alfa Delivers First North American 8C Competizione

By: Selektaa

Selektaa — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:24:22 +0000

Beautiful car, but I have to wonder, how does that door/window setup work? The window comes further back than the doorframe. I’m guessing it’s a frameless window that somehow goes down and forward when it’s rolling down, but I’m not sure what would happen when you opened the door.
Has anyone seen this in the flesh that can comment?

By: chuckgoolsbee

chuckgoolsbee — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:37:45 +0000

Overwrought?

I beg to differ. Look at just about any Ferrari (other than a few 250 and 275 models in the mid-60s) especially the more recent stuff for examples of overwrought.

Comparatively this thing is sex on wheels.

–chuck

By: matthewsimmons

matthewsimmons — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:03:14 +0000

That is an amazing looking car.

By: porschespeed

porschespeed — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:34:23 +0000

Robert:

The best sex sometimes is.

By: Robert Farago

Robert Farago — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:51:16 +0000

iNeon :

Agreed.

By: iNeon

iNeon — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:46:12 +0000

Overwrought.

By: Theodore

Theodore — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:04:56 +0000

It’s a nice profile, but have you seen the rest of the carl? I mean…blech. The tail looks half-finished, and the nose looks like a catfish being stabbed to death with a sharp rock. The Italians make some attractive cars, but, to my eyes, this is not one of them.

By: arapaima

arapaima — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:01:51 +0000

I have issues with that straight line coming off the front fender, looks out of place among the other (very sexy) curves. That and I find the Alfa grills ugly.

By: HPE

HPE — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:41:11 +0000

Apparently this amounts to heresy on any car site, but I have to say the 8C has never done anything for me – and that angle especially. Generally I’m a coupe-over-convertible kind of guy, but it’s the roofline especially that is problematic here – the Spider variant is far better looking IMHO, even if it’s a bit Stingray in its proportions and profile.

By: VerbalKint

VerbalKint — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:50:46 +0000

The auto equivalent of Sam Barber’s Adagio for Strings or Ludwig von’s Sonata No. 8 in Cm, Pathetique [sp?].
Or the soul reborn of the Talbot Lago T150: http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/1273/picfetch0gk.gif (hope the “linque” works…

–VK

By: Gottleib

Gottleib — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:54:40 +0000

Beautiful…………please someone bring this car to America.

By: ferrarimanf355

ferrarimanf355 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:43:59 +0000

Italians just do it better…

By: David Holzman

David Holzman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:41:44 +0000

beautiful profile

By: oldyak

oldyak — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:05:04 +0000

THIS is what makes ALFA ROMEO a special car to enthusiasts!
BRILLIANT!
Even if it burns oil,clutches,overheats,has a BAD ride…….
WHO CARES!!!!!

By: wmba

wmba — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:21:43 +0000

What a gorgeous car! Wow! The Italians have that flair, and they’re not dusty engineers either. Look how Ducati and Aprilia have fared against the might of the Japanese bike industry.

Speaking of the Japanese, is there a car designer in that land who can give up studying silkworm pupae or malformed acorns, and actually style a car properly? Obviously not the Acura folks. A new RL lives down the street, and I’m just amazed at its terrible design, like a Darth Vadermobile or something. Very foreign to my eyes.

The Alfa, though, mmmmmmmm.

By: tigeraid

tigeraid — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:44:52 +0000

beautiful. But I still give the edge to the Maserati Gran Turismo and the Aston V8 Vantage.

By: Hippo

Hippo — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:39:44 +0000

Better odds of the Alfa getting you a flag girl then the flag girl getting you the Alfa.

By: autonut

autonut — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:38:47 +0000

Actually the flag girl would look much better against this Alfa then grey background.

By: 1996MEdition

1996MEdition — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:27:07 +0000

It’s a toss up for pic-of-the-day between this and the flag girl

By: chuckgoolsbee

chuckgoolsbee — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:22:53 +0000

I would kill all of you for an 8C Competizione.

That is THE BEST looking car built since the E-type Jaguar.

–chuck

By: Zarba

Zarba — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:07:28 +0000

Rat Bastard.

And I mean that in the nicest sort of way…