Hey, the Alfa Romeo 4C, which dates from 2013. You might think so when you read this impression. And you're right too. That's a modern car, and by no means a classic. The lids Alfa Romeo 4C, however, is constructed with the old-fashioned sports car principles: as little luxury as possible, unfiltered performance and historical venom. In addition, it has a power source that has a nod to the content Alfathe past gives. Almost 1750 cc are available to the driver to be filled with a mixture that, when ignited, Alfa enables immense performance.
The driver of the 4 1750C 2015TBI TCT is Durk Tinga van Rinsma from Berlikum. The ecstatic co-driver is the undersigned who experiences how modern cars propagate classic values. The kilometer-technically virgin 4C is absurd, we will say it. Close your eyes and you imagine yourself next to the great seventies and eighties rally drivers. Because right behind driver and passenger - in that small cockpit - the 1750 TBI power source (with 5.200 kilometers of experience) happily chops and saws away. The 6-speed TCT automatic transmission (double clutch) is manually operated from time to time and every resistance comes in pruning and pruning hard. The mechanical clap of the whip comes to full maturity in this four-cylinder sports car. Just over 900 kilos are propelled by emotional light years. And at the same time stuck with the winding roads. Whatever happens, no matter how intensely the curves are devoured. Ab. Surd.
Classic values, modern techniques
You can tell from the standard specifications and equipment from the factory that the car was constructed in accordance with a number of modern principles. There are indeed row assistants. You can choose from the DNA (Dynamic, Normal, All Weather) row modes. In addition, the standard ABS system is always on guard. The assistants explicitly know their modest place, and can even be sent almost on holiday as the track menu selection on race is falling. The Q2 differential remains active. That too is a huge plus.
Spartan art
Incidentally, you hardly notice the presence of the safety systems in the Italian super athlete. It looks pront but has a carbon fiber chassis of less than eighty kilos. At the 4C used Alfa Romeo also the relatively Spartan art of omission. Manual air conditioning and basic multimedia are present in this 4C. They are a free option that purists say: Rather not. Director Tinga is also of the same opinion. Anyway: Alfa Romeo indeed marked this equipment option as an option. Because Alfa really wanted to keep the car as light as possible.
Hard-working horses
Meanwhile, the driver floored the accelerator again, grinning. Especially if the Alfa has received orders to obey the Dynamic menu, it becomes clear to the undersigned what the art of omission means. Lightweight in optima forma and 240 hard-working horses can lead to absurd and asphalt-scorching performances. We haven't even hit the limit yet. There is simply no room for that. But count on us that it has become clear to us what else this car can do.
Scavenging technology
The performance curve of the Alfa is also made possible by that immense torque that becomes available very early thanks to the Scavenging technology. Thanks to the position of the valves, the airflow moves, as it were, in a direct line from the inlet to the outlet valve. And it causes an optimal flushing of the combustion chamber, so that the turbo does not get a moment's rest. Simply put then. The steering and chassis artists of Alfa Romeo meanwhile have shown how all this performance and almost brutal technical violence is controlled. And should be. In a masterful way.
Paper-thin cord between rawness and pin-sharp balance
That happens with a rough feeling, because the 4C shows a lot of purity and sharpness that operates on the wafer-thin rope between rawness, unlimited possibilities and balance. And all with those devastating, eardrum-busting, and clapping mechanics right behind you. They give the impression that the Alfa not in 4.5 seconds, but in milliseconds from 0 to 100. And much further. It's that impressive and almost terrifying timbre that fits the absurdity of the 4C. A car that you know was made in this day and age.
Uncut purity from the past
Yet the 4C radiates the unadulterated purity of the past. And is therefore one of the classics of the future. In the words of Durk Tinga, it is called: “This is the car with which Alfa came back the old fashioned way”. We experienced what that qualification meant. What an absurd and crazy vehicle. This one Quattro Cilindri is maniacal. In an almost classical way.
More info about this one Alfa Romeo 4C can be found here.
In the Giulietta QV the same engine, maybe a little less adrenaline, because heavier than 4C.
Somewhat more comfortable, (noise 4C on longer journeys becomes disturbing).
My 2nd QV, the launch edition, has been a real sporty one for years Alfa, who doesn't shy away from a round of Spa.
I prefer a GTV.