Even though in recent years Alfa Romeo's formal presence in the concept scene has been limited to the 4C pre-production study, independent designers and studios alike have tried their best to cover the Italian firm's absence and capture the imagination of the public with plenty of conceptual proposals.
IDECORE, an Italian studio that bills itself as "independent designers and modelers" and which you may remember from last year's Monza V8 study, sent us these computer generated images of a new Alfa Romeo concept named Minhoss.
The Minhoss is a study for a smaller Alfa Romeo sports coupe designed by Marco Marchese.
The young Italian designers tells us that his creation "takes inspiration from the ancient Minoan civilization, melting it carefully with style elements from different models of Alfa Romeo's past and present".
The concept was penned to be around 4.1-meters in length (approx. 162-inches long) with power preferably coming from Alfa's 1.75-liter turbocharged four-cylinder TBi engine tuned to develop around 265-ponies.
Marchese says that the Minhoss would feature a traditional layout with the engine mounted up front, and the gearbox and driving axle at the rear.
Take a look at the high-res photos below and tell us what you think.
Photo credits: IDECORE
7 Comments:
looks like a camaro
yeah, looks like a fastback Camaro
Camero Italiano.
Love the front end design, good styling direction for them to take ! I say don't change one line on it , give it a real rear bumper and produce this thing now and bring it to the states !, while i never could afford one, id love to see these on our roads !
fugly! Looks like a 10 year old boy design !!
Oh...and I thought BMW i8 when I saw the front....
dear lord! what is that??? certainly no alfa romeo! there are
some aspects that would suit a milano manufactured car like the hood
with its evolved fenders.. but please stop trying to redefine alfa's
design language! even if i start to like the looks of the 4c gta
concept more and more they still tried to integrate too much into its
design - sometimes less is more...keep it simple but arousing, clean
but passionate like the duettotanta concept (even if that one could be a
little more masculine - the rear fenders and exhaust pipes for
example... but that's about it).please alfa, go back to your
roots and DO NOT just try to please u.s. market-prognoses. if it's all
about money, passion dies (hear that fiat?)! thinking back and
recognizing that ferrari would probably never made it without alfa, you
(fiat) should let alfa a little loose to make their own decisions... and
ferrari kind of makes profits, doesn't it???
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