Alfa and Pininfarina

More than 70 years of cooperation between Pininfarina and Alfa Romeo, from custom-built cars for individual customers to advanced styling research, from design to the production of special series. With a preference for roadsters and convertibles.

Way back in the Thirties, the recentlyestablished Pininfarina had a chance to produce a 6C 1750 Gran Sport Cabrio. In 1935, it was the turn of the Spider Sport Aerodinamico. For the new Alfas of the Post-war period, Pininfarina started to propose small volume production of special versions, getting off to a rather slow start with production of only 88 units of the 1900 C Sprint type unified cabriolet.

The most resounding event in the Fifties was the world-wide success of the Giulietta Spider, intended originally for export to the west coat of the USA and subsequently sold all over Europe. With more than 17,000 units of the Giulietta version and almost 10,000 of the Giulia version, the legendary success of this model marked a turning-point for Pininfarina, revealing its future industrial vocation. A success equaled only by that of the Duetto roadster.

In its original configuration, the Duetto – which took star billing in the film “The Graduate” with Dustin Hoffman – was showcased at the 1966 Geneva Show; completely remodeled and differently badged, it was produced by Pininfarina until 1993. The Alfa Romeo GTV and Spider, first of all designed and then subsequently produced by Pininfarina starting from September 2000, made their debut in 1994 at the Paris Motor Show. A new version of both the roadster and the GTV, once again penned by Pininfarina, first appeared in 2003. Now, continuing in the tradition of Alfa “open-topped cars” bodied by Pininfarina, it is the moment of the new Alfa Spider.