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The Alfa Romeo 8C was a range of Alfa Romeo road, race and sports cars of the 1930s. The 8C designates 8 cylinders, and originally a straight 8-cylinder engine. The Vittorio Jano designed 8C was Alfa Romeo 's primary racing engine from its introduction in 1931 to its retirement in 1939.
Alfa Romeo P3: 50006 RM Sotheby's: Paris, France: US$4,180,680 $5,196,620 [346] August 16, 2009 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Castagna Drop Head Coupe: 2311214 Gooding & Company Pebble Beach, California, United States: US$4,180,000 $5,936,000 [267] [276] May 2, 2015 1934 Packard Twelve Individual Custom Stationary Coupe 901968 RM Auctions
The Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione is a sports car produced by Italian marque Alfa Romeo between 2007 and 2010. It was first presented as a concept car at the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show . The name refers to the eight-cylinder ( cilindro in Italian) engine (8C) and Alfa Romeo 's racing pedigree ( Competizione , Italian for 'competition').
Alfa Romeo were the first to react to the engineering problems of the straight-eight: in their racing car engines for the P2 and P3 and in their Alfa Romeo 8C 2300/2600/2900 sports cars of Mille Miglia and Le Mans fame the camshaft drive had been moved to the engine centre, between cylinders four and five, thus reducing the aforementioned ...
Best of show – 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta; Festival Automobile International. Gran Prix de la Plus Belle Supercar de l’Année - 2008 A8GCS Berlinetta Touring. Vuitton Classic. Best of show – 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Spyder Touring; 2009 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa D'Este. Coppa d'Oro Villa D'Este – 1938 Alfa Romeo, 8C 2900B
In 1986, the deal was concluded with Alfa Romeo merged with traditional rival Lancia into Fiat's Alfa Lancia Industriale S.p.A. [22] [21] Already in 1981, Alfa Romeo's then-President Ettore Massacesi had stated that Alfa would never use Fiat engines—the engines being, to a large extent, Alfa Romeo's identity—but would be happy to cooperate ...
Although it was equipped with the V6 Busso engine, i.e., Alfa Romeo's first six-cylinder engine since the one installed on the 2600, the Alfa 6 proved to be a commercial flop due to its obsolete styling, the economic climate of those years that discouraged the purchase of large cars, and the growing antagonism of BMW and Mercedes-Benz models.
The Alfa Romeo P3, P3 monoposto or Tipo B was a classic Grand Prix car designed by Vittorio Jano, one of the Alfa Romeo 8C models. The P3 is considered to be the world's first genuine single-seat Grand Prix racing car [1] and was Alfa Romeo's second monoposto after the Tipo A monoposto (1931). [2] It was based on the earlier successful Alfa ...