New Alfa Romeo TZ3 Corsa Concept unveiled at Villa D'Este

The Zagato-designed Alfa Romeo TZ3 Corsa has been unveiled at the Villa D'Este concours, and frankly, it's spectacular. Driven by the Alfa 8C Competizione's V8, the TZ3 is very much in keeping with its 60s-era predecessors, the TZ1 and TZ2, sporting similar detail elements and the same near-breadvan profile. Also like the originals, this is a legit racing car. Unlike its forbears, however, the new machine wears aluminum bodywork stretched over a tube frame and carbon-fiber chassis. Power, as indicated before, is also of thoroughly modern origin.

Zagato says the TZ3 was commissioned by German collector Martin Kapp as a special celebration of 100 years of racing from Scuderia Ferrari, Alfa Corse, Autodelta, and Scuderia Zagato. On that "special" bit, we think it's safe to say, "mission accomplished" - with class and panache to spare. Official PR pics are in the gallery below, and a full live gallery is posted at OmniAuto. Be sure to pay them a visit as well.

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Milano, April 2010: Zagato Atelier announces the introduction of the Alfa Romeo TZ3 Corsa at
the XII Villa D'Este Concours d'Elegance.

The TZ3 Corsa is not a design exercise.
It does not take inspiration only from the 90 year collaboration between the two brands, neither only
from the Milanese conjunction between Alfa Romeo and Zagato.
The TZ3 Corsa is a race car, honouring 100 years of races and victories across the whole 20th
century.

It celebrates men and machines of the Alfa Romeo Zagato common tradition:
Scuderia Ferrari of the 20's and 30's, Alfa Corse of the 40's and 50's, Autodelta of the 60's and
70's up to the latest Scuderia Zagato of the 80's and 90's.

Recalling these racing emotions, the TZ3 Corsa is based on a mono shell carbon fibre tubular
chassis, coupled with a tubular frame and a lightweight aluminium body.
It boasts Technical Partners such as OMP and Pirelli.

Following Zagato's gentlemen-driver heritage, the car has been commissioned by the Alfa Romeo
Zagato collector Martin Kapp, during the Zandvoort Tribute to Zagato event, where more than
130 Alfa Romeo Zagatos were celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the brand.
Martin Kapp owns, among his Alfa Romeo Collection: SZ coda tonda and SZ coda tronca, TZ
and TZ2, Junior Z and S.Z..

Tribute to the 100th anniversary of Alfa Romeo's Racing Heritage:
Alfa Romeo and Zagato achieved the best results since the beginnings thanks to the Mille Miglia
victories of the 1500 6C, the 1750 GS and the 8C 2300 Zagato of the Scuderia Ferrari. Already
in 1933 an official advert of the Alfa Romeo 8C proclaimed: "The Spider that, with the trio Alfa
Romeo - Scuderia Ferrari - Carrozzeria Zagato, brought countless victories in the homeland and
abroad for the honour of Italy."

Even the grandiose Quadrifoglio Verde was placed on the bodies of Zagatos of the Alfa Corse
team numerous times. Among the most glorious moments is the victory of the Formula 1
championship of Juan Manuel Fangio, aboard his Alfa Romeo 159 bodied by Zagato, as well as
the victorious Alfa Romeo 3000 CM bodied in 3 samples by Zagato.

During the 60's, the list of absolute victories of the Giulia TZ and TZ2 by Zagato for the Autodelta
of Ing. Carlo Chiti, was never-ending. Some of the most memorable victories included the 1964 12
hours of Sebring, the Targa Florio, the Nurburgring, and the 24 hours of Le Mans.
The single-brand Alfa Romeo S.Z. championship emphasized the Alfa Romeo ES30's
(Experimental SportsCar 3000) technical and dynamic abilities. The S.Z. delivered, and continues
to so today, constant performance and driving pleasure to the Gentlemen drivers of the Alfa Zagato
team, across the most important racetracks in Europe.

NEW ALFA ROMEO GIULIETTA ( 2011 ) REVEALED

Geneva Auto Show.Alfa Romeo Giulietta ( 2011 ) has a continued history of authoritative admirable vehicles, and its latest conception is afraid to that theme. The Italian automaker acclimated the 80th Geneva Motor Show to bare its newest offering, the beautiful Giulietta hatchback. The Giulietta is decidedly absorbing because it is believed to be a analytical allotment of Alfa Romeo’s approaching North American lineup. The car additionally serves as a backup to the Alfa 147, which is anon awash in Europe.

ALFA ROMEO GIULIETTA ( 2011 ) Interior dashboard

ALFA ROMEO GIULIETTA ( 2011 )

The nameplate was aboriginal acclimated in the 1950s for the company’s aboriginal absolutely affordable auto model. Giulietta has an all-new belvedere — dubbed Compact — and a new booty on Alfa’s brand exoteric architecture language. Some parallels can be fatigued to the looks of the Alfa 8C Competizione, which has a agnate advanced end. Four turbocharged engines will be accessible at the European launch. The two accessible gasoline turbo motors both displace 1.4 liters, with the entry-level adaptation carrying 120 horsepower, and the added exceptional MultiAir assemblage alms 170 hp. On the agent side, the 1.6-liter adaptation cranks out 105 hp, while the 2.0-liter archetypal churns out 170 hp. After the antecedent launch, a fifth motor will be added to the mix — Alfa’s 1750 TBi. The gasoline comminute will bear 235 application with an absolute Quadrifoglio Verde (Cloverleaf) configuration.

Alfaholism

One of the stars of the Autosport show for me was a gorgeous 1970s Alfa Romeo Montreal in the Pistonheads Arena. Even in a slightly questionable shade of yellow it was still pant-wettingly desireable.

As a result I later stumbled upon this link from a little-known Michael Caine movie called the The Marseille Contract.



Of course, in reality the Alfa would have broken down - or rusted - before it reached the finish and the '70s 911 would have killed its driver and possibly a few bystanders in a sudden fit of irretrievable oversteer. It's also another rather dubious choice from the Alfa paint department, but the car still looks fantastic.

2009 Alfa Romeo Brera review

2009 Alfa Romeo Brera

The Alfa Brera comes with a best of two petrol engines and one diesel. With its 260 bhp, the new 3.2 JTS V6 is the best able agent in the absolute Alfa Romeo range. And for the aboriginal on this blazon of engine, it adopts the absolute Twin Phaser arrangement for capricious the aperture bend of the valves. The 3.2 JTS V6 is additionally accessible with the 6-speed Q-Tronic automated gearbox, for the actual best antic performance.

2009 Alfa Romeo Brera

The Alfa Brera adopts a adult abeyance bureaucracy with aerial bifold wishbones at the avant-garde and Multilink at the rear. The braking arrangement has four discs with 4-channel ABS with EBD and Brake Assist. The Alfa Brera additionally uses the avant-garde cyberbanking alive assurance devices: VDC for adherence control, ASR to anticipate caster slip, MSR in the accident of brusque downshifts in low anchor conditions, and Acropolis Holder for easier acropolis starts.

2009 Alfa Romeo Brera

2009 Alfa Romeo 8C Spider Preview

2009 Alfa Romeo 8C Spider Photos

The agent powering both auto and convertible is from addition Italian thoroughbred, Maserati’s Quattroporte, although it’s been continued to 4.7 liters of displacement. It makes 450 application at 7,000 rpm, and 347 lb-ft of torque at 4,750 rpm, with a 7,500 rpm redline. The Ferrari-built motivator will be placed abaft the advanced arbor for a low centermost of force and ideal 50/50 weight distribution.The sole chiral best will be a six-speed consecutive chiral with paddles, army as allotment of the rear arbor for bigger weight distribution, as is the accepted vogue. The Q-Select gearbox will accept bristles audible modes: Manual-Normal; Manual-Sport; Automatic-Normal; Automatic-Sport and Ice. The 8C is Alfa Romeo’s booty on a accurate alien sports car and what a booty it is. Before we altercate what’s beneath it’s hood, why don’t we pretend that the 8C is sitting in our barn because it would be oh so nice to own one of these. So back you airing bench and into your barn you see this adorableness and central this adorableness sits a able 4.7L V8 agent which can amuse your adrenaline addiction with 450hp, hitting the 100km/h mark in about 4.5 seconds. Anyone who isn’t a fan of convertibles, no charge to anguish the auto carries the aforementioned statistics. To advice the car ability those actual nice numbers we aloof discussed, it is absolutely outfitted with Carbon Fiber panels. You’re additionally set with abeyance with a advanced and rear bifold wishbone design.

2009 Alfa Romeo 8C Spider preview

Now if you absolutely do appetite this alien car in your barn you bigger get accessible to action for it because, of the 500 actuality accessible worldwide, a baby 35 will be accessible to you in the U.S. and accomplish abiding your wallet can authority some austere banknote because it’ll be active you about $300,000. The car’s carbon-fibre anatomy hides a animate unibody abutting to that of the Maserati auto as well. The underbody was shaped in the wind-tunnel to abate lift at the aerial speeds the car will no agnosticism be able to accomplish after so abundant as breaking a sweat.

2009 Alfa Romeo 8C Spider

2009 Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione

Initially presented in 2003 like conveys concept, Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione since then appreciated a considerable amount of success, like the entry in the production in 2007, appearing in a video game called Corsica Squadra Alfa Romeo around 2005 and 2006 and even generated to him a version of packing of itself. What makes this drill 2009 of version - except its limited race - is its combination excellent glances and execution.

Alfa Romeo was driven its Competizione 2009 by an engine of 4.7 liters allowing the car to strike 182 M/H and of going from 0 to 60 M/H as Juste 4.2 seconds. On this, the manufacturer of cars of luxury also incorporated a button of sport on the central console of the car which increases the speed of the intervals of the shift of its transmission, intensifies the response time of the power control of the car and provides an electronic ordering of traction allowing you oversteer.

Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione

While its engine and devices are released like exciting, its aspect should not be neglected. Design 2009 of body of Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione is made similar its 1960 predecessors, the type 33 Stradale and in TZ. It also has a grill before triangle-formed, of the triple headlights and the rear lights circulars. The global design of Competizione 2009 was worked out by Wolfgang Egger.

Since the forwarding of Alfa Romeo 2009 8C Competizione will begin this spring, take care you to make hold one. This new sport scar is sure to be the article of a collector after two or three years.