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Broken Dreams: Alfa Romeo 2uettottanta. Killed by the wrong name?

1 March 20261 min read5 images

Alfa Romeo’s 2uettottanta was a perfect Duetto revival—beautiful, production-ready, and sadly never built.

Broken Dreams: Alfa Romeo 2uettottanta. Killed by the wrong name?
Photo credit: Alfa Romeo, Pininfarina

All too often, Alfa Romeo has been the victim of sacrifices that have made it lose customers waiting to celebrate its magnificent past once again. The Milanese brand, before it was bought by Fiat, had shown great imagination and passion.

Then the typical logic of large groups that rationalizes products and platforms, combined with more than a few difficult years, ended up dashing the many hopes of a return to its heyday.

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Harmony and efficiency: Pininfarina’s beautiful spider in front of the Turin coachbuilder’s wind tunnel.

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