Alfa Romeo are ready again to hit the world with their new car . This time they are reportedly preparing a small sports car named Alfa Romeo Spider .
This sports car is built with the same platform with the Mazda MX - 5 and the design was done by Marco Tencone , chief designer at Alfa Romeo and Maserati . Tencone with the team working on the design of this car in two studia , Fiat Centro Stile and a satellite studio in Japan .
Tencone who also designed the Alfa 4C sports car and the Maserati Quattroporte sedan Ghibli and is not fixated on the history of Alfa Romeo design . Duetto design in mid-1960 was not visible even aura Duettotanta concept car that was born in 2010, is quite pronounced.
" Spider will most definitely not retro in design , " said a source at Alfa Romeo as quoted by Autocar . " Spider should be contemporary and should go into range of modern 4C , " he added .
As a small sports car , Alfa Romeo Spider is designed to be a compact car , but still have a clear line style of a sports car .
Alfa Romeo and Mazda car sharing platform to deliver this , but the business of design , the Spider is claimed to be more stylish than the MX - 5 , but they will still be lighter because it will have a weight of between 1000-1100 kg thanks to the use of high-strength steel in the bulk of the structure body .
" ( But ) they will have a different body , " the sources said there .
For heart , 1.4 TB MultiAir engine with a turbocharged car is expected to be placed in the output with a choice between the 119 bhp or 168 bhp . The machine used by the Giulietta , but is expected to Spider strength will be stronger than that .
Therefore, despite using the same platform , Spider and MX - 5 will not be the same . Autocar says that the percentage of similarity between the two is only going to be 40 percent .
The launch will be separate though both remain in the same year , 2015.
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