Weird and strange things of Alfa Romeo 4C (you’ll laugh)

In interviews, questions and issues our and other media about the Alfa Romeo 4C to brand managers have drawn a lot of curious information about the beautiful Italian sports realatar you had to then point by point. Do you think?.

And we’ll start where you already know: the headlights. Seriously, are like that on purpose? Bill Lawrence Ramaciotti in an interview with EVO who elected because “with this design saves a lot of weight” to add “make no indoor tulip without them much lighter, and are more economical”. Oh, are you there the trick?

Marco Tencone, the chief designer of the car, clears things “I liked the original design, but work to provide solutions to those we have presented tried at the time to support the body color, but it was awful”.

Is our translation of this? These headlights have been chosen to save costs and stay within budget development, marking and strictly limited. But the refusal host of “look” of the Alfa Romeo 4C, Alfa Romeo is seriously considering offering a design in keeping with the prototype. We breathe it.

To open the front hood must use screwdrivers.

The second thing you have to count as extravagant. To say otherwise. See the front cover of the Alfa Romeo 4C? With the engine located in central-rear position, supposedly there should host a trunk in the nose, under the hood that has “seams” for which clearly opens, right?

Nope is tricky. The front hood is screwed. Yes, screwed. You have no locking mechanism, hinges or. Why? The people of Alpha says it’s to save weight. But yes, it is to save development costs and production. But seriously, how could you think worse idea?

At least it seems that there will be a second and smaller trunk right behind the engine, as in the Lotus Evora, which will be commonly used.

There are many other details to comment that we have perplexed, as we have learned more of the car. For example, the versions “opening” that make up the spoiler on the boot lid and the air passages just ahead of the front wheels have a Cd and Cl (drag and downforce) achieved significantly more than the “normal” model , where Cx is not “good”. A dried. And is that aesthetics could not be changed, which has led to severely limit the car’s aerodynamics.

From the words of Marco Tencone deduce that is more than likely end up seeing headlights “more normal” sooner than later.

The Opening is, therefore, faster and better grip thanks to his treatment of the surrounding air. Fortunately almost all aerodynamic elements of the same will be sold as optional for the Alfa Romeo 4C “normal”, which cost around €50,000 (the Opening costs €60,000).

Yet if there is something that we have made ​​clear is that there was backstage three things that you could not change the car: the chassis had to be, or yes, carbon fiber, the weight of 900 kilos could happen, and the car could not cost more than €50,000 in its production “normal”, without spending a certain amount in their development.

These parameters, the very costly price carbon chassis, investment to spend a very short run production and to amortize (the car has to be profitable), have conditioned controversial decisions, which will much to talk about, for sure.

Yet, probably when we mount it to us, we attack engine and boot the 10 curves complaint so we forget to stay again pledged an Alfa Romeo.

If it lacks character, compensate all his faults. I do not doubt. But at the same time I can not help thinking it would have been very easy, with just over budget, have created a product that did not have any of those? Details controversial?. But of course, then it would not be an Alfa.