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Blue Alfa Romeo Disco Volante Spyder Looks Stunning at Monterey Car Week

What do you do once you get bored of your Alfa Romeo 8C? You go to Touring Superleggera, get on your knees and ask them to build a Disco Volante out of it. This one is the first of seven Volante Spyder models.
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Just because we've seen it twice this year alone doesn't mean we've gotten tired of it. I mean, just look at those lines - nothing else in the automotive industry looks this original. Touring Superleggera has made some gorgeous cars before, but we think this targa model is by far their best work yet.

The blue car was presented in February, shown in March at the Geneva Motor Show and again in May during the 2016 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este. Right now, it's being showcased at the Monterey Car Week 2016, where we're sure to see even more exotics this week.

Even looking past the beautiful paint and the elegant retro body, there are plenty of things to get a hard-on over. One of them might be the fact that you can cruise with the top down up to 112 miles per hour without, the manufacturer claims, exceeding 50 dB. My wife telling me to put the seat down is louder than that!

You guys might also want to know that the Disco Volante Spyder is made entirely by hand over many months. On top of that, it features a two-piece removable roof made from carbon fiber that can be stowed away in the luggage compartment. Each roof piece weighs just 3.5 kilograms (8 lbs), so going from coupe to roadster won't hurt performance too much.

Unfortunately, this happens to be one of the least powerful and technologically advanced new cars presented in Monterey this week. Under the hood is the same 4.7-liter V8 engine used by the GranTurismo from Maserati, which the Alfa Romeo 8C was based on. With 450 horsepower and an ancient 6-speed automatic, you might have a chance of keeping up with the BMW M4, but that's about it.

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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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