Another mysterious alfa to identify - Page 2

**TorW** · #16 (**permalink**) 08-10-2007, 04:21 AM

Without any further comment, here's a picture of an Alfa Romeo Canguro during the 2005 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este. According to legend, only one specimen was ever built by Bertone. It's basically a road version of the TZ, but Alfa decided against mass-producing it.

Photos: Wouter Melissen

Alex · #17 (**permalink**) 08-10-2007, 05:57 AM

Time to shoot a sacred cow. Is there anyone else in here who finds the styling of the Canguro quite amateurish? It seems too much like 'work in progress' to me, and I guess its significance lies in the fact that it's a one-off and some of the stylistic thoughts contained in the design later found their way into other projects. But as a stand-alone style icon? I think not. It might have wowed people back in the day, but it's nothing with the longevity of the Miura, for example. In fact, in the photos it looks so poor that it could almost be some obscure English glass fibre kit car (check out that grille just slapped on the mouth, awkward headlights, the mish-mash of curves). There's a very good reason why that ended up discarded on the scrap heap, IMHO.

Yep, I know that I'm going to get flamed to heck by some, but there's no point in according reverence to something just because it's an Alfa ...

Alex.

**TorW** · #18 (**permalink**) 08-10-2007, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex

Time to shoot a sacred cow. Is there anyone else in here who finds the styling of the Canguro quite amateurish? It seems too much like 'work in progress' to me, and I guess its significance lies in the fact that it's a one-off and some of the stylistic thoughts contained in the design later found their way into other projects.