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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').
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.
In 1932 Alfa Romeo built its first real aircraft engine, the D2 (240 bhp), fitted to Caproni 101 D2. In the 1930s when Alfa Romeo engines were used for aircraft on a larger scale; the Savoia Marchetti SM.74, Savoia-Marchetti SM.75, Savoia-Marchetti SM.79, Savoia Marchetti SM.81 and Cant Z506B Airone all used Alfa Romeo manufactured engines. [86]
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 ...
Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione; Alfa Romeo 12C; ALFA 15/20 HP; ALFA 12 HP; ALFA 15 HP; ALFA 20/30 HP; ALFA 24 HP; Alfa Romeo 33; Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale; Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (2023) ALFA 40/60 HP; Alfa Romeo 75; Alfa Romeo 90; Alfa Romeo 105/115 Series Coupés; Alfa Romeo 145; Alfa Romeo 146; Alfa Romeo 147; Alfa Romeo 155; Alfa Romeo 156; Alfa ...
Alfa Romeo has made three 8-cylinder Grand Prix racing engines designed for both Formula One and sports car racing; in both inline and V engine configurations.Their first was the supercharged 158/159, a straight-eight engine, with the 1.5 L engine configuration imposed by the FIA for forced induction engines, in 1950.
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 ...
The Alfa Romeo Disco Volante by Touring is a two-seater coupé, built by Carrozzeria Touring in 2013. It is based on the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione. The model name and styling is derived from the Disco Volante of the 1950s. Equipped with a 4.7 L front-central mounted V8 engine, it produces 450 PS (331 kW; 444 hp) and 480 N⋅m (354 lbf⋅ft) of ...