40-60 horsepower airport
As early as 19 14, when Alfa Romeo's brand name was not Alfa Romeo (called A.L.F.A), Kyle Ricotti, a count from Milan, wanted to build a sports car with low wind resistance like an airplane. He appointed Carrozzeria Castagna, a car body factory, to manufacture the car body. The 40/60 HP Aerodinamica is driven by a 50 HP four-cylinder engine. With the design advantage of water drop modeling, the car can accelerate to the top speed139 km/h/h.
However, although aerodynamics has advantages over trams, the huge body weight of Aerodinamica with 40-60 horsepower also greatly reduces its performance. In fact, its extremely fast performance is only better than that of 137km/h run by Corsa with 40-60 horsepower in the same period. In addition, there is no difference between the engine in the car and the seating space, so we can also imagine how a four-cylinder engine with poor thermal efficiency will transpiration all the passengers in the car when walking.
1952 C52“Discovolante”
In the early 1950s, after World War II, Italian brands showed a trend of tight capital, and Alfa Romeo's operation was not very stable. They just played a tough game in the F 195 1 and gave up participating in the F 1952 for lack of funds. In order to save development funds, the existing 1900 chassis was specially used for the development of the concept car C52. The exterior is designed by the famous Carrozzeria Touring Studio, with ultra-low wind resistance of 0.25Cd and extremely light body of 735kg, so that the vehicle can run at full speed to 225 km/h.
Alfa Romeo also playfully nicknamed C52 Disco Volante, and its unique design also inspired many future car designs, such as 1959 Corvette Stingray concept car (XP-87), which was the conceptual design of Disco Volante seen by American designer Bill Mitchell at the Turin Auto Show in Italy. It is reported that Alfa Romeo has always built about three Discovolantes, two of which are equipped with more powerful 3.0 inline six-cylinder engines, while the remaining 1900 models have been converted into Coupe bodies.
1953 6C 3000 CM Superflow IV concept car
In the 1950' s, Alfa Romeo commissioned many car body factories to design different chassis, such as Broadcom, Ghia or Touring. They handed over a retired 6C 3000 CM racing car to Pininfarina to design and manufacture a series of Superflow concept cars. After three different stages of aerodynamic experiments, it finally expanded to the fourth Superflow IV. Its most remarkable feature is like the fully transparent cab of an airplane, and the design of the shuttle-shaped front and rear has also influenced the appearance of many Alfa Romeo cars in the future, most obviously Duetto Spyder in 1966.
In the auction of Gooding and Company 2065 438+09, Superflow IV once bid an astonishing $4.3 million, but failed to reach the reserve price. Although it didn't reach the original auctioneer's estimate of $8 million, Alfa Romeo's unusually high estimate also showed the car's important position to the brand.
1954 B.A.T. 7 concept car
BAT comes from the Italian word Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica, which clearly expresses the concept and original intention of this car. The exterior was designed by franco scaglione, the first chairman of Broadcom Design Studio, to create the most streamlined sports car design. BAT*** has three series: 5, 7 and 9, but if you can only choose one as a masterpiece, it must be the ultimate aerodynamic experiments of 1954. After numerous modifications, the drag coefficient of BAT 7 reaches an astonishing 0. 19Cd, and only needs 100 horsepower and 1655.
BAT 9 built after BAT 7 is a market-based concept, which slightly weakens the extreme aerodynamic design of BAT 7 and modifies the headlight design that is more suitable for road use. But in the end, none of the BAT series successfully entered the mass production stage, and the basic shape of BAT was extended to the commercial sports car Giulietta Sprint Speciale by designer franco scaglione.
1968 Carabo concept car
In the late 1960s, Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale became one of the most expensive commercial sports cars of that year. In the absence of buyers, Alfa Romeo had to deliver five unclaimed 33 Stradale chassis to several design studios, hoping to produce some excellent works. Pininfarina and Broadcom each have two cases, while the Italian design company has only one.
The appearance of Alfa Romeo Carabo triggered a brand-new design revolution. Broadcom's ace designer, Mrcello Gandini, let the design style named "Wedge Design" sweep the mainstream sports car design in 1970s and 1980s. Carabo is named after Carabidae. In addition to reminiscent of the shape of a worm's belly, even the windows are deliberately pasted with golden heat insulation paper, but perhaps the most important thing is that Gandini created a unique hay knife door design on this car for the first time, which will become a classic symbol of Lamborghini in the future.
1976 new york taxi concept car
Alfa Romeo NYC taxi is a strange project, which was set up by the American Museum of Modern Art to create a more practical and environmentally friendly new york taxi, more than 30 years earlier than the 20 1 1 Nissan NV200 NYC taxi.
Designed by Giorgetto, director of Italian design studio, he used Romeo chassis of Alfa Romeo van as the foundation to create the best space efficiency. Giorgetto has designed sliding doors on both sides of the vehicle, which makes it possible for five people to ride in a compact and concentrated four-meter wheelbase. At the same time, the NYC Taxi concept car also adopted some forward-looking conceptual designs. For example, it is one of the earliest cars that can take a wheelchair, and it is also one of the founders of the design concept of contemporary MPV models.
Section 1988 164 ProCar
It sounds silly to apply 620 horsepower V 10 F 1 engine to street cars, but in the 1980 s, some people did try to make such a crazy incident. ProCar was originally an accessory project of F 1 season. At the beginning, only BMW made a provision in 1979 with M 1.
After nearly ten years, Alfa Romeo once again put forward the idea of promoting Procar race. ProCar series is also called Formula S. The specifications of these cars are "having the appearance of a streetcar, but having a powerful engine of F 1". Alfa Romeo hopes to attract more car manufacturers who have the strength to build F 1 engines to participate in the competition.
Alfa Romeo, who took the lead, first built a 164 ProCar. The three-stage body imitates the appearance of the flagship car 164, and the shell is made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic and Kevlar. Only 750kg car body is driven by a V 10 engine with more than 600 horsepower, which makes it reach 164 Procar0- 100 km. Unfortunately, in the end, no one could understand Alfa Romeo's idea of promoting Procar. 164 ProCar was put into storage by Alfa Romeo after only two rounds of exhibition before Monza GP.
1990 SE 048 sp C group
After entering 1990, Lancia LC2, a group C racing car developed by abate, failed to compete with the strongest Porsche team on the field, which made Lancia give up the group C race and concentrate on the WRC rally. Ferrari in the same group pushed F 1 team at that time, leaving Alfa Romeo to try to take over the field of Group C racing, hoping to relive the heyday of Tipo 33 series racing.
Alfa Romeo's new Group C car development plan was launched, which was also led by abate. SE 048SP adopts a V 10 engine similar to 164 Procar ── a 620 horsepower "TIPO1035" 3.5 liter naturally aspirated V 10 engine. Although SE048SP has shown great ambition in design, this prototype has never been successfully separated from the development stage. Considering the durability of V 10 engine, the original factory has limited capital utilization; At that time, the group mainly invested in the excellent Alfa Romeo 155 DTM racing car and the Lancia ·WRC team of the same group, which made the development plan of SE048SP put on hold indefinitely, while in Alfa Romeo's warehouse, another prototype car was parked that could not compete.
2006 Diva concept car
Alfa Romeo Diva was released at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show. It was designed by the students of Espera Sparro Automobile Design Institute in France. DIVA's appearance pays tribute to 1967' s peerless classic Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale, which combines a lot of retro elements and innovations without being abrupt. The chassis adopts Alfa Romeo 159, but how to change the original front drive setting to MR configuration?
20 10 TZ3 Xhosa
20 10 Broadcom, Pininfarina and many other automobile design studios launched commemorative models to celebrate the centenary of Alfa Romeo brand. In the same year, Zagato launched an extension of Alfa Romeo TZ3 Corsa, which not only made TZ cars separated by more than half a yard have successors, but also commemorated Alfa Romeo's centenary birthday.
TZ3, based on the transformation of Alfa Romeo 8C, continues the "Kamm-tail" tail style designed by Zagato designer Ercole Spada for the first generation 1963 Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ. With a 420-horsepower V8 engine with 4.2-liter dry oil pan, the vehicle is set to a very competitive weight of 850kg, and TZ3 Corsa can complete 0 to 100 in 3.5 seconds. In addition, Zagato Studio also introduced nine TZ3 Stradale models modified by Dodge Viper.