It is a sensationally fun machine both on road and track.
was getting a little sibling and that it would come to America. This was the Alfa Romeo 4C, which the company called a “’” that was as old school as it was ultra-modern. Lightweight with a carbon fiber chassis, double-clutch transmission and a turbocharged 1750cc engine, it also retained rear-wheel drive and unassisted, manual steering. The 4C was a return to form for the greatest and longest-lasting sports car manufacturer in the automotive industry. At least, it should have been.
There was little on sale like it. Only the aged Lotus Elise matched it in terms of its size and weight, and nothing in the sports car world gave you a complete carbon fiber chassis for anything near its price. When it went on sale in the U.S., the 4C. Even a buyer walking into a showroom today to put down nearly half a million dollars on a Ferrari 296 GTB won’t get a carbon tub.
When it went on sale, the 4C was somewhat misunderstood. It was styled like a supercar but it had little of the traffic-stopping presence of a pricier and physically larger Lamborghini or McLaren. At the same time, the 4C was too expensive to be a cheap or affordable little mid-engine sports car in the mold of, say, the Toyota MR2. The 4C fell into a no man’s land. It was too affordable to be an exotic, too exotic to be affordable.
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