Alfa Romeo RL

The Alfa Romeo RL was a six cylinder car built between 1922 and 1927 and was the first sporting model that Alfa Romeo offered after the First World War. Giuseppe Merosi designed it in 1921, and it used a straight six engine with overhead valves. The range came in three versions, called Normale, Turismo and Sport, so that the same basic car could serve as a family tourer or as a competition machine. In total 2,640 RLs were made, a substantial number for a firm of that period, and the car carried the Alfa Romeo name through the early 1920s while the factory in Milan was still recovering from the war and settling under Nicola Romeo.