Alfa Romeo's come back to the us (again), now with a mid-engined, rear-drive, two-seat sports automobile. But thirteen feet long and shorter than a Lotus Evora, this runt successor to the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione contains a carbon-fiber tub with front and rear aluminium substructures to facilitate collision. Alfa's claimed curb weight of but 2200 pounds ought to provides it an exhilarating thrust-to-weight magnitude relation.  

It is a low volume, high style declaration that Alfas area unit over simply rebadged Fiats. The 4C can become the second fashionable Alfa (after the hyper-exotic 8C) that does not share a platform with different Fiats. There have been five hundred copies every of the attractive $250,000 8C Competizione and $300,000 Spider, however Alfa can build as several as 2500 4Cs a year. Five-hundred Launch Editions can lead the charge within the U.S. Developed by Dallara Automobili in Italy, the 4C platform is also distinctive, however it'll draw some hardware from the Alfa Giulietta/Dodge Dart platform, together with brake and steering elements.

Dallara conjointly designed the chassis for the KTM X-Bow, and rumor has it that there area unit commonalities. Both, for instance, have wheelbases within the 94-to-96-inch vary. A new 1.7-liter turbocharged four-cylinder with associate degree aluminium block and head generates 240 H.P. and 258 lb-ft of torque; a future higher-performance 4C might get the maximum amount as 270 H.P. Regardless, the sole transmission possibility is that the six-speed dual-clutch automatic from the Giulietta. the price of carbon fiber hasn't born as speedily as Alfa hoped, thus it cannot worth the 4C below $60,000. Costwise, it'll go up against a loaded Porsche crocodilian reptile or perhaps a low-end 911 Carrera, instead of the entry-level Boxster that was its original target. The primary Alfa 4Cs are sent to the U.S. market estimates a price of around $86,000.