Overview
Price On the road (OTR) from £25,920
The return of a Legend
The Alfa Spider is synonymous with freedom, technology and pure Italian style. It's a legendary open top sports car, heir to the legacy of the Giulietta Spider and the unforgettable Duetto – true icons of the automotive world. At its debut at the Geneva Show, the model was immediately awarded the title of "2006 Cabrio of the Year".
The Alfa Spider is the prize offspring of the new Alfa Romeo generation. Italian through and through, it stems from the collaboration between Alfa Romeo Centro Stile and two names that are renown for Italian style the world over: Giugiaro and Pininfarina.
The design is essential but uncomplicated – as befits a two-seater – conveying an impression of both elegance and strength: The new Alfa Spider is not just beautiful, but also technologically advanced and inherently a thoroughbred sports car. The cosseting cockpit and a wealth of avant-garde features mark the return of a legend.
Design & Styling cues
The feel of a sports car full of Italian character makes every journey a pleasure. The Alfa Spider proudly displays its close kinship with the Alfa Brera and at the same time revives the great tradition of Alfa Romeo convertibles.
The elegant tail section is a clear allusion to the mythical Giulietta Spider of the 1950s, a genuine icon in automotive history. The result is a fascinating model, generously sized (it is 4396 mm long and 1830 mm wide), with a clean, sophisticated design. The two-seater formula and the electrically operated fabric roof are as essential and classical as they can ever be in a car of this type, conceived to offer the unique sensation of freedom and to unleash the driver’s imagination.
Design reference
The styling of the Alfa Spider is extremely well balanced thanks to a design that has successfully recreated this very special car. Bold looking, thanks to its purebred Alfa front, generously sized tyres, four exhaust pipes and protective roll-bars, and at the same time elegant, sporty and refined. The powerful, penetrating headlamps reveal its essence: blending smoothly into the bonnet and yet projecting out towards the road, towards the future.
Interior
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Superlative comfort
A strong, reassuring embrace - this is the way the Alfa Spider welcomes the driver and the passenger due to the careful selection of components and quality of materials used. The instruments are then focused towards the driver and grouped in a logical manner, while the wraparound seats have built in head restraints and can be adjusted to find the perfect seating position. The climate inside the cabin can be adjusted to suit both occupants, even with the roof down, thanks to dual zone automatic climate control. The car can also be equipped with a sophisticated infotelematic system that brings together satellite navigation via a 6.5" colour display, hands-free GSM phone, voice controls, Connect™ services and a CD auto-changer.
For better sound reproduction a Bose®sound system can be specified that ensures the occupants can listen to music at the highest quality.
Moreover, thanks to the option of Blue&Me™, an innovative system with voice recognition, using the Windows Mobile®platform, the Alfa Spider lets you use your Bluetooth®compatible mobile phone and listen to your favourite music from an MP3 player or any other mass storage device with a USB connection. With Blue&Me™, you don’t need to take your hands off the steering-wheel to make a call or to select a piece of music.
Engines
Power and technology
The Alfa Spider offers customers the sensation of freedom, to drive with the open sky above you. So, for a car as exceptional as this, Alfa Romeo engineers have created two stunning petrol engines: the 3.2 JTS V6 and the 2.2 JTS. They use Twin Phaser technology (double continuous variable valve timing on the intake and exhaust valves) and deliver 260 and 185 bhp respectively. Both are highly advanced and feature the latest in engine technology.
The 3.2 JTS V6 is the most powerful engine in the entire Alfa Romeo range and is always mated to the Q4 all-wheel-drive system which features state-of-the-art technology, therefore ensuring both driving pleasure and performance.
Equally refined is the 4-cylinder 2.2 JTS with double overhead camshafts and 16 valves with a power output of 185 bhp. It is extremely light, thanks to its aluminium alloy engine block and cylinder head. Two counter-rotating shafts attenuate vibration, ensuring smooth operation more normally associated with 6-cylinder engines.
Both units are powerful and responsive, and peak torque begins to be delivered at low revving speeds (230 Nm for the 2.2 JTS and 322 Nm for the 3.2 JTS V6), for prompt, fail-safe pickup, without having to down shift.
The diesel unit is a 200 bhp 2.4 JTDM 20v. It develops a top speed of more than 228 km/h and accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in just 8.4 seconds), yet fuel consumption is limited: in the urban cycle the car consumes 9.2 litres every 100 km, out of town this becomes 5.4 litres and in the mixed cycle it is about 6.8 litres.
The Alfa Spider’s new Multijet engine respects Euro 4 limits and incorporates a DPF (particulate trap) that eliminates fine dust, already meeting the limits currently envisaged for future Euro 5 legislation. It is a ‘for life’ system that does not need to be regenerated with additives, and will be eligible for tax incentives.
Blue & Me
Alfa Romeo world premiered "Blue&Me based on Windows Mobile", together with Microsoft’s Automotive Business Unit, at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show. This is the first offshoot of the strategic industrial partnership sealed in July 2004 with the long-term objective of designing innovative automotive on-line systems.
Blue&Me remodels the entire concept of on-board communication, information and personal entertainment. It is the new, user-friendly, accessible, competitive system designed to enhance trip comfort and above all safety.
Alfa Romeo and Microsoft, with the support of Magneti Marelli, propose an open system, always abreast of the times as it can be updated, is flexible and can be configured with the wide range of services.
The system is already available as an exclusive extra on the Alfa 159, Alfa 159 Sportwagon, Alfa Brera and Alfa Spider models.
