Yahoo Autos Alfa Romeo Could Replace the 4C With a Giulia-Based Coupe by 2020
The Alfa Romeo 4C debuted for 2014, with a targa-top variant that's out now. It's basically a mini exotic car, with its carbon fiber tub and mid-engine layout. But according to one wild rumor from Europe, that could all be set to change for 2020.
Germany's AutoBILD reports that the Italian automaker plans to replace the 4C with a more conventional vehicle for 2020. The report, which does not name a source, claims that Alfa's 4C replacement will ride on the Giorgio platform-the front-engine, rear- or all-wheel-drive design that will underpin the upcoming Alfa Romeo Giulia sport sedan, as well as the long-promised SUV variant.
That's significant because it would create a much less radical vehicle-as a typically herky-jerky Google translation of the German-language AutoBILD report puts it, "no carbon, low alloy."
The European outlet claims that the 2020 4C replacement could wear the Brera nameplate, last used on a front- or all-wheel-drive sports coupe with a Spider variant. Like the last Brera, AutoBILD predicts the 2020 model would come in fastback coupe or convertible varieties, though the future Alfa sportster is expected to have only two seats.
"A car for the soul, no-gooders on four wheels, estimated 40,000 to 60,000 euro expensive," the suddenly-evocative Google translation reads, hinting that FCA product design boss Ralph Gilles has called the future sportster "a car to fall in love with." That price estimate calculates to around $45,000 to $67,000-within striking distance of the BMW M3 and M4, as Jalopnik's Justin Westbrook points out.
If the presumed Alfa sports coupe gets the Giulia Quadrifoglio's Ferrari-designed 2.9-liter twin-turbo V6, which sends 505 hp through a true six-speed manual transmission to the rear wheels, we wouldn't be mad.
