Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera Disco Volante – a new take on the Alfa 8C

The Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera Disco Volante

Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera Disco Volante is a homage to the 1952 Alfa Romeo Disco Volante, based on the Alfa 8C and heading to Geneva.

The Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera Disco Volante – which is quite a mouthful – is a concept put together by Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera for this year’s Geneva Motor Show and is a modern take on the 1952 Alfa Romeo Disco Volante, itself a Touring concept based on the Alfa 1900.

This time Carrozzeria Touring has taken a modern Alfa as a platform for its creation, the Alfa Romeo 8C, and created a new body in hand crafted aluminium with carbon fibre elements, but under the skin it looks like the 8C stays intact.

That means a 4.7 litre V8 with around 440bhp and 353lb/ft of torque, six-speed transaxle ‘box with flappy paddles and probably the less than perfect drive the 8C offers.

The trouble is, and maybe it’s just us, the Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera take on the Alfa 8C, impressive though it is, doesn’t improve on the lines of the flawed, but achingly beautiful, Alfa Romeo 8C.

Which was surely the point?

By Cars UK