Alfa Romeo 8C Spider

They're mixing some strong Kool-Aid at Alfa Romeo these days, and we hope you don't mind that we took a mongo swig of it.

As part of the Fiat umbrella, Alfa represents some of the best stuff enthusiasts will get from the Fiat-Chrysler partnership, and the boys from Turin rolled out some of their top toys during our visit earlier this week. The lineup included the Alfa 159 (in diesel and gasoline versions), the MiTo, the Brera and Brera Spider, a historic 1931 8C 2300 Le Mans racer (if you were at Goodwood this year, you saw it), and the topper: the 2009 8C Spider.

The 8C Spider follows the first flag-bearer for Alfa's return to North America (the company bowed out of the States in 1994), the 8C Competizione, which sold out its entire 500-car run by last December (only 50 came to the United States).

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