Alfa Romeo GTV and Spider (916)

The Alfa Romeo GTV and the Alfa Romeo Spider, Type 916, were sports cars produced by the Italian maker from 1993 to 2004. The GTV was a 2+2 coupe and the Spider a two seater roadster, and production totalled 42,937 GTVs and 38,891 Spiders. The GTV name, Gran Turismo Veloce, made it successor to the long gone Alfetta GTV coupe, while the Spider replaced the then thirty year old 105 series Giulia Spider. Enrico Fumia designed them at Pininfarina, with Walter de Silva and the Centro Stile Alfa Romeo completing the exterior detail and a new interior. Drag coefficients were 0.33 for the GTV and 0.38 for the Spider, and both used the Fiat Group Tipo Due platform. Jeremy Clarkson called the GTV one of the best sports cars of its time in 1998. The GTV was available until the Brera arrived in 2005.