Yahoo Autos Luigi Colani's Only Alfa Romeo Was The First Car To Lap The Nürburgring In Under 10 Minutes
This past weekend I went to Macchinissima, a new Italian car show that was held in downtown Los Angeles. It was full of all sorts of weird and wonderful cars and bikes, including some seriously rare stuff, but the star of the show was this one-of-one Abarth-Alfa Romeo with unique bodywork by the legendary Luigi Colani.
Over his 60-plus-year-long career, the late Colani created all manner of groundbreaking vehicles, from sports coupes and concept vehicles to semi trucks and motorcycles, in addition to designing furniture, cameras, sunglasses and other items. His focus was on organic forms and rounded shapes, once saying, “Why should I join the straying mass who want to make everything angular? I am going to pursue Galileo Galilei’s philosophy: my world is also round.” Colani was especially interested in aerodynamics, which is reflected by the slippery, low-slung shapes he designed.
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At Macchinissima the Colani Alfa was placed in its own little room, making it easy to just stand around and gawp at how wild it looks. The long, pointy nose with its covered headlights look like something out of Speed Racer, and the front fender vents have shades of BMW 507.
It has a slight Zagato-style double-bubble roof, and all of the greenhouse glass is gloriously rounded. The giant rear window wraps around the body and also has a double-bubble design, and that shape is echoed by the scooped-out rear end treatment, which features oval-shaped taillights placed at an angle in the concave surface of the kammback tail.
It’s hard to find much info about the Colani Alfa and how the car spent its life after being created. The car was offered for sale in Goodwood in 2007, after which it resided in Italy for a while. Now, the car is newly restored and in the hands of the L.A.-based Caretakers Collection, who is amassing a fleet of more than a dozen of Colani’s vehicles.
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