Today’s Rare Ride very likely a vehicle you’ll never see in real life. Extremely expensive and limited in production, just seven were ever made.
It’s pretty spectacular.
The sleek, flowing lines of the two-door seen here are based on an Alfa Romeo 8C, which Rare Rides covered last year. Disco Volante’s designer and builder, Carrozzeria Touring, wanted to create a modern homage to their historic 1952 Disco Volante. That car was an aerodynamic experimental racer, with a daring shape unlike anything else in the early Fifties.
The original Disco Volante was incredibly limited in its production, and between 1952 and 1953 just five cars were produced. Of those, four were spyders and one a coupe. Sixty years later Touring took a look at the recent 8C Competizione and Spyder and decided it was once again time for Disco. This time though, it would be a road-legal car.
Considered an experimental build, the Disco Volante used the same Maserati-Ferrari 4.7-liter V8 and six-speed auto-manual transmission from the 8C. Touring designed an all-new body for the 8C’s chassis, and completely altered the car’s appearance. Almost every piece from lighting and body panels, to the trim, door mirrors, and roofline were all completely changed.
Interiors for the Disco Volante were not as entirely reworked as the exterior but gained additional trim and Alcantara coated surfaces and other accents that were color-matched to the exterior. Touring also saw fit to replace the Alfa’s seats with a design of their own.
The 181 miles per hour Disco Volante was available in standard coupe and Spyder variants, and Touring’s builds were based on the 8C Competizione and Spyder respectively. Touring produced eight coupes in 2013, but it took them a while to develop the Spyder idea. The Spyder was first shown at Geneva in March of 2016, and production commenced afterward with a total run of seven cars.
Today’s Rare Ride is number four of seven, and is finished in Verde British Racing. It was first registered in 2019, so presumably sat unused for a while after it was built by Touring. Since then, it’s covered almost 10,000 miles. It’s priced by request, but brace yourself.
[Images: seller]
Beautiful exterior, but I feel that the interior is kind of a let-down and comes across as rather boring and ‘too busy’. A more minimalist interior design would probably have worked better (‘less is more’).
Agree Thomas; For what looks to be a as designed modern throwback there are too many bits on interior
Agree. Interior belongs to Pontiac or Mini.
Interestingly enough there will be more Alfa Romeo Disco Volante Spyders on the road in 100 years than there will be yesterday’s Lincoln Continental rare ride
I had a 1979 Disco Volare’. Yep, a Plymouth with a little disco ball hanging from the rearview mirror
Anyway, very nice and according to google appox. $500K Yikes!
Related (don’t miss the caption):
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/216383957066138983/
Lol, looks like most everything from the 80s
Thanks Lie2me. I was in mid-sip of my coffee when I imagined the Disco Volare and promptly snorted it up my nose!
100% Polyester interior… Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive
Quite beautiful, but here’s the thing: That car’s tail is its defining feature, yet the seller offers no photo of the entire back end. But there are two good shots of the tach. ??
That is odd.
This is why Alfa is such a cool brand, or at least used to be. They’ll make this stunning exterior, use a stunning color of green, and then they’ll go to GM and see if they have any leftover green velour from early 80’s Ninety-Eight and Eighty-eight sedans.
That’s brass balls mixed with questionable visual acuity.
That 80s velour will hold your butt in place better then velcro
7 or 8 cars isn’t a “production run”.
Okay. They weren’t produced, and not in a series. Imaginary cars!
You’re right. It’s really more of a total of seven or eight cars having been produced.
*eyeroll*
Beautiful car…I really like the original 50s car…but that would be even more unattainable.