The Alfa Romeo Essence concept is a proposal for a highly stylized sportscar which is inspired by the shape of flowing fabrics. The vehicle's creator is Sam Holgate, a 2010 graduate of Coventry University's Transportation Design course.
The Alfa Romeo Essence features a tapering streamlined body which is made from shape memory plastic. This flexible material actually changes shape as the air flows over it to create contours unique to that particular vehicle. After a while the bodywork would return to its original factory shape.
The Alfa Romeo Essence concept was designed for the year 2035, and as such it features a number of unusual ideas - other than the shape shifting bodywork!
The overlapping front bodywork is designed to recall the appearance of a coat or cloak pulled tight around the body. The exposed rear wheels were inspired by early Grand Prix cars - but they also gave Holgate the ability to better taper the rear bodywork.
Inside, the two seats are suspended off a central spine which runs the length of the vehicle's interior, while the dash display is inspired by technical watch faces. Up front is storage space for luggage, or a small amount of cargo.
Powering the Alfa Romeo Essence concept is an electric drivetrain which features lithium ion batteries located in the tail section of the vehicle. These batteries can be quickly replaced, meaning that there's no need to wait for recharging. Just slot in the new set and off you go.
Alfa Romeo Spix by Creatix
Belgian design company Creatix designed the Alfa Romeo Spix concept as an interpretation of what an Alfa Romeo sports car may look like in 50-100 years time.
While the Spix was labeled as a 'flying car' and no wheel are visible, the proportions and lines suggest that conventional wheels could quite easily be integrated into the design - without destroying the concepts overall appeal.
Creatix used traditional and contemporary Alfa Romeo design cues in the Spix concept, namely the triangular grille, projector headlights (similar to the Alfa Romeo Brera), and flowing graceful lines - especially at the rear.
Introducing 2017 Alfa Romeo Executive Fastback Saloon. Fancy name for a fancy looking car. Designed by Jacob McMurry, this is his version of Alpha Romeo in 2017 which would compliment Alpa Romeo’s return to the North American market. Jacob drew inspiration for this model from the Carnival of Venice and from the 2900B Type 35 racers of the 1930’s.
This Alfa Romeo concept car, which has been designed before the Fiat/Chrysler partnership, inspires comfort, luxury and elegance. Also, thanks to its boat-like tail end, it could well be compared to a small yacht, although in the end it’s only a car…an interesting one, to say the least.
The 2017 Alfa Romeo Executive Fastback Saloon is a concept car designed by Jacob McMurry, a graduate of Art Center College of Design. The design of this elegant vehicle is inspired from the Carnival of Venice and if you’ve been there, you know what we mean.
The vehicle’s roof is made entirely out of smart glass panels, that have the ability to turn completely transparent or opaque. The car benefits from a diesel V8 engine that sends the power to the rear wheels, or an optional biodiesel engine.
At the 2010 Geneva Motor Show two of the largest Italian automotive design firms both unveiled concept cars to mark the 100th anniversary of Alfa Romeo. Except where Pininfarina unveiled the 2uettottanta concept - which looked just a few tweaks away from being production ready. Bertone came up with the Pandion - which looked like it came from another dimension.
It's great to see Bertone's back with some bold originality, because with their recent managerial and financial turmoil a more conservative design might have been more likely. Instead though they decided to dial up the craziness and channel it into an innovative concept which would turn heads and break new ground in automotive design.
The Pandion gets its name from the Latin name for an Osprey: a sea hawk that nests and lives in coastal areas. The designers, led by Bertone's new Brand Director, Mike Robinson, took inspiration from the wings of this bird of prey when designing the jaw dropping door opening mechanisms, and from the hawks' facial markings when developing the next generation Alfa Romeo face.
The front end of the Alfa Romeo Pandion features a striking new design which, while recognizable as belonging to an Alfa, takes the styling another step forward. Which is impressive considering how good most Alfa Romeo's look today. The front end is designed to resemble the helmets worn by ancient warriors, with slits for the headlights and a slightly larger opening for the grille. Below the headlights are additional horizontal openings for fog lights.
However it's not until you see the rear of the Pandion that the design really gets interesting. Here the designers have incorporated an array of crystal-like blades which are intertwined in various widths and lengths in a seemingly random pattern. This unique structure is designed to make it look like the car is traveling so fast the framework of the car is actually starting to disintegrate out of the back of the vehicle. Two small panels underneath this latticework house the quadruple tailpipes. These white painted panels are supposed to convey a sense of continuity to the design, as if they are fixed to the rest of the bodywork. The taillights are fully integrated into the organic tangle of the blades and disappear when turned off.
The Pandion's interior is also on the receiving end of some rather peculiar design ideas. The structures used within were created to appear somewhat organic or 'grown'. The 2+2 seating layout - although even in the press release from Alfa Romeo they acknowledged that the rear seats are merely 'extra spaces' - is typical of Alfa's sports cars. The front seats which seem to flow out of the footwells are only 30 mm thick. They have carbon fibre shells and are covered in a backlit gel material which conforms to the shape of the driver's or passenger's body.
The steering wheel is clearly that of a sports car, while the controls are similar to those of Alfa Romeo race cars, with two analogue dials placed directly on the steering column. Three of the four LCD screens offer a rear view inside the passenger compartment (two on the sides, one on the windscreen) and they are directly connected to the external video cameras that substitute the rear view mirrors normally placed outside the car. The larger screen placed in the centre (9"), in the middle of the console - and within reach of the passenger as well as the driver - also displays information on the car's secondary systems.
Powering the Alfa Romeo Pandion is a 4.7 litre V8 which produces 450 horsepower.
Alfa Romeo Coelus
The Alfa Romeo Coelus is a concept by Slovakian designer Jan Bujnak. The car was created for a final-year thesis project at Scuola Politecnica di Design (SPD).
The 2008 brief from Alfa Romeo asked SPD students to "Imagine the new Alfa Romeo flagship model". The Coelus was Bujnak's design.
The styling of the Alfa Romeo Coelus is intended to blend many of Alfa Romeo's traditional styling cues. Expressive and muscular style lines are melded with the unmistakable Alfa grille and an uncluttered rear end.
The headlights, which are an evolution of the designs seen on previous Alfa Romeos, are narrow and angular wedges. Running backwards from the nose of the Alfa Romeo Coelus is the main feature line of the car – a shoulder line that flows beneath the cabin glassline and into the powerful haunch over the rear wheel.
Above the shoulder line sits a low and sporting cabin highlighting the coupe feel of the car. Further sporting lines are accentuated by the muscular bonnet. When seen from behind, the Coelus appears wide and powerful.
The colour palette of the Alfa Romeo Coelus is deliberately monochromatic, mixing a one-off exterior paint – metashine silver – with sections of trim in either chrome or aluminium finishes.
To mark the year of Pininfarina's 80th anniversary, and also Alfa Romeo's centenary, the famous Italian styling house has developed a stunning sports car concept for the manufacturer.
The unusually named 2uettottanta concept is based on the Alfa Romeo Spider platform and shares the same layout. Mounted up front is a longitudinally positioned 1750 cc (1.8 litre) four-cylinder turbocharged engine. This engine is designed to call on the heritage of the 1750 Veloce - one of many connections to past Alfa models. The 2uettottanta name itself is supposed to be a reflection of the popular Duetto.
Alfa Romeo and Pininfarina have both in conjunction and separately been responsible for producing some of the best looking cars on the planet. So it's no surprise that when they work together on a birthday present for themselves they come up with something pretty special. There's not many cars which can match the visual appeal that the 2uettottanta is packing.
The front end screams Alfa Romeo thanks to the distinctive upside-down triangle grille. For the 2uettottanta the designers have inset the grille so it just peeks out from within a gap in the bodywork. The menacing slit-like LED headlights and molded air intakes just below nicely match the recessed grille. A strip of carbon fibre in the lower part of the bumper acts as an air splitter, channeling the air to the rear end of the car.
In profile the almost textbook sports car proportions of the 2uettottanta concept can be clearly seen. A long, low hood is beautifully complemented by uncluttered body panels and a tapering, streamlined decklid and rear panel.
One of the more unusual aspects of the 2uettottanta's design are the humps behind the seats. These have a notch cut into them which exposes the seatbelt mechanism and provides a focal point for the styling in an area which would otherwise be uninteresting.
While there's no mention of whether the 2uettottanta will go into production in some form or another, it's certainly wouldn't be a difficult design to translate into a production model. Elements of its styling could quite easily find their way into the next Alfa Romeo Spider.
Alfa Montreal Concept
This Montreal Concept primarily finds its base in the current platform GM/Fiat Premium that is used by Alfa Romeo 159 and Brera. Alfa Romeo stayed away from the US market since the year 1995 .They plan to revive the brand in America in the year 2011 and the Montreal was designed specially to showcase at the event.
Similar to the original vehicle, the Montreal concept car boasts unique and distinctive elements of styling, inclusive of a grille that is blacked-out and deeply recessed, headlight unit with louvers above it, parallel vents that are integrated into the wheel arches at the rear and a window line that sweeps upward at the door’s rear. Both the concept and the original share an uncluttered and simple rear layout. Nevertheless, with the replacement of the square taillights by sleek circular units, the concept car is given an appearance that is more contemporary.
Alfa Romeo Spada T Concept Car
Alfa Romeo Brera Concept
he Brera originally appeared as a concept car at the 2002 Geneva Motor Show. It was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign Giugiaro. The concept version was powered with a Maserati V8 engine producing around 400 PS (290 kW; 390 hp).The Brera was widely acclaimed, and production plans were subsequently announced for 2005.