Alfa Says Arrivederci to the 4C With a Special Edition
Autoweek
12/15/2020
Alfa-Romeo is launching a special edition 4C
Just 33 are being built
It pays homage to the 1967 33 Stradale
Ah yes, the Alfa Romeo 4C. We love it and we hate it, often both at the same time. It has the absolute best road feel of any street legal thing sold. And it is beautiful to behold, with styling lines you could trace back to the iconic 1967 33 Stradale, itself among the most beautiful cars ever made.
Yet you can neither get into it nor out of it without assistance from an orthopedic surgeon, your yoga master, two Harbor Freight ¾-ton jack stands, a crowbar and some strategically placed lubricant. It is a car we all demanded Alfa import to the U.S. but then we refused to buy it, at least in any numbers large enough to make it profitable for Alfa. Indeed, its biggest year in the U.S. market was in 2015, its first full calendar year here, and even then it managed only 663 sales. Since then, the numbers have steadily dropped off until this, its last year in the U.S., when it will be lucky to break 100 by the time someone tallies up 2020 sales.