Nobody can truly escape the inbuilt human passion for beautiful cars – not even those who’ve dedicated their lives to the relentless pursuit of victory on two wheels. This would seem to be true for MotoGP champion Casey Stoner.

This video shows the young Aussie motorbike racing champ thrashing the beautiful Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, which [...]

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Mix one part MiTo with one part 8C Competizione, add a dash of individuality for good measure, and you wind up with the eye-catching Alfa Romeo 149. While it’s evident that styling cues from the existing Alfa line-up have been utilised, the 149 combines these elements with a unique rear end to give us a family-friendly [...]

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Alfa Romeo’s gorgeous 8C Competizione is now officially on sale in the United States. However, thanks to the USA’s entire allocation of 84 cars being snapped up, prospective buyers will need to wait at least another year before their next chance arrives to snare the 336kW Maserati-built coupe.

The 8C spearheads a wider return to the [...]

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We’ve suggested it is quite possibly the most beautiful car the world has ever known – a big call we know. But the exquisite Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, is we believe one of a handful of cars worthy of this title. Pictured is the production version of the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Spider and as [...]

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Alfa Romeo looks set to return to its roots and bring back rear-wheel-drive to some of its mainstream models. Autoblog is claiming that it’s due to Alfa’s pending re-entry into the US market, where buyers want “tyre-smoking” rear-wheel-drive.

While we can’t argue with that logic its fair to say that few Australian enthusiasts will be complaining, [...]

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Alfa Romeo has started deliveries of its painfully beautiful 8C Competizione and it must be like Christmas for those few lucky enough to be on the waiting list. Just 500 coupes are being built and although there are Australian and New Zealand names on the exclusive owner’s list, left hand drive only means that local [...]

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In a poll recently conducted for the MPH 07 travelling road show, folks were asked to vote on their favourite ‘piece of ass’…in the world of cars. The posterior poll oddly enough featured the sort of cars that you are only likely to see the rear of in the real world anyway with a couple [...]

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“Drifting and dreaming” with the Maserati Gran Turismo. One of Carupdates favourites, the Maser is up there with the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione and Scarlett Johansson. This is a Maserati promotional video dubbed with some rather cool music. After the frenetic drifting lap of the ‘Ring in the Ruf Turbo R video its time to [...]

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The UK’s prestige and performance motor show MPH ’07 has conducted a poll in order to determine the average persons perfect car and passenger, with the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione and Scarlett Johansson coming up trumps – and who could blame the Brits for this outcome.

Scarlett received 23 percent of the vote and narrowly beat [...]

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The Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione may be my choice of Italian style in a sporting coupe but the new Maserati Gran Turismo runs it a close second. Simply stunning! It would seem that Tom Ford from Fifth Gear thinks the Maser GT is a bit of alright as well.

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If we had a drop dead stunner competition at CARupdate then the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione would take home the silverware. It would win convincingly and the judges decision would be final. The only car that could possibly upstage the Alfa 8C would be the Alfa 8C…Spider.

The great news is that the Alfa Romeo 8C [...]

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Is the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione the worlds most beautiful car? Thats a big call when you consider the likes of Ferrari’s Dino, Lamborghini’s Muira and a number of other timeless exotics. We are unabashed fans of the Alfa 8C and want to share a couple of videos of one of our favourite cars with [...]

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