Alfa Romeo Disco Volante Spyder Debuts In Geneva

In spite of its overt design study looks, the Alfa Romeo Disco Volante Spyder is actually a super-limited production run model based on the 8C Competizione

In spite of its design study looks, the Alfa Romeo Disco Volante Spyder is actually a super-limited production run model based on the 8C Competizione. It’s the topless version of the Disco Volante shown three years ago, and it’s also the first open-top vehicle ever made by Touring Superleggera.

The Italian coach builder created the model to celebrate its 90th anniversary and showed the very first example at the 2016 Geneva motor show. Looking at it, there’s nothing surprising about it if you’ve already adjusted to the slightly odd shape of the hardtop Disco Volante of 2013.

However, it is more exclusive and exciting since you also get the wind in your hair, as well as hear the glorious V8 from under the hood. The extra exclusivity is drawn from its limited production run, pegged at just seven examples; there were no such restrictions announced when the hardtop was introduced, so over the years this will end up being the rarer and more coveted model.

Besides, the donor car, the Alfa 8C, was never regarded as a brilliant driver’s car to begin with, so all Disco Volantes are better suited for cruising, rather than track days; knowing this makes the Spyder even more desirable…