By Tim Pollard
Drool on. Alfa Romeo will formally unveil the production version of the 8C Spider – a limited run of 500 soft-tops – at this spring’s Geneva Motor Show. It’s powered by the same 4.7-litre V8 producing 444bhp as the 8C coupe that so entranced CAR on our recent road trip from Monaco to Modena.
Prospective buyers will face a long wait for the Spider, however. Alfa won’t start building it until all the hard-tops have finished production – and that run is expected to continue until October 2009. Only then will the Spider roll off the line.
All right readers Drool over these specs:
That 4691cc engine only delivers peak torque at 7500rpm and thrives on revs. It feeds power through a six-speed transaxle and the brakes on the Spider are ceramic items sourced from Brembo. No performance figures have been issued yet, but the Spider isn’t going to be much slower than the 182mph coupe. So expect the benchmark 62mph sprint in an eyelid-batting 4.2sec.
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