Alfa Romeo's 1995 Speedster
In 2018 while touring north-central Italy, I came across this car during a lunch break. A little Googling allowed me to identify it and refresh my memory of it when the design was new. As the title of this post states, it is an Alfa Romeo Spider , likely a 1995 or 1996 model. Wikipedia indicates that the stylist was Enrico Fumia who was working at Pininfarina. This Spider (pronounced like the English word "speeder") series was marketed model years 1995-2006 and experienced a minor grille facelift during that period. There also was a coupé version, the GTV. The Spider has a 100-inch (2540 mm) wheelbase, but its overall length is 168.7 inches (4285 mm), the latter dimension similar to that of the early, classic Porsche 911. This suggests that the car potentially had reasonable proportions. But the styling makes it seem stubby, rather than graceful or purposeful. Gallery German publicity photo. Probably a factory image of a 1995 model. The grille has the traditional Alf