New Alfa Romeo Stradale is 1 of only 33

This is the brand new 33 Stradale. I'm going to tell you why this right here is so special. I'm here at the Alfa Romeo Museum in Milan just to be able to see exclusively some of the coolest Alfa Romeos ever made. Right here is probably the most expensive Alfa Romeo to date. Put it at over 20 million dollars. They think it would sell for much much more than this. So this design focused on aerodynamics and for that reason, look in here, the engine is inside the cabin. Check this out. Look at that. So this door on this concept car actually came out a few years before the Countach. So back in the 60s, right, there was a race car called the Tipo 33, the Type 33. So they took the Type 33 race car and they made 18 for the road. The original one came out in the 60s and now one of those cars actually sold privately for over 20 million dollars. That car was said by a lot of people to be the most beautiful car ever made. So that is why Alfa is like, do you know what, let's bring back the 33 Stradale into today. And here it is. So there are only going to be 33 of these cars made. The one back in the 60s, the road version, had a two litre V8. Now for this one, you can choose between two versions. One, which is a 2.9 litre V6 with about 620 horsepower, or surprisingly, you can choose a fully electric version of this car, which will have around 750 horsepower. So I want to take you through this car and just show you how they've taken the original designs from the car of the 60s and updated it, but also given it, you know, an ode to what it was. We're going to start here in the front. Here is the V shape. All right. So the classic Alfa Romeo V here in the front. Then if you go around, you've got the similar shape to the headlights, but in order to make the shape similar to the last one, they've actually extended the lights all the way around here with these daytime running lights, which I actually quite like. Now the wheels, as you can see, similar as well with the original circular design. Now the door is even the same. Obviously it's a lot, lot bigger than it was in the, in the one from the 60s. But if you see here, you've got the same design here into the roof. So the wraparound glass with just a little bit of the window being able to be opened from here, right? And then when you do open the door, little button here, right under there, you open this and it actually opens at the same angle. This is a complicated angle to make a door. This is not exactly a butterfly door. It's called a litra just behind the door here. You have the air intake. All right. Similar. You also have in the one from the 60s, there's kind of mesh from the back, right? It was open because they realized there was some turbulence from the air coming off the wheel. So they opened it up and then covered it in black mesh. They've done the same here a little bit. You see here, it's open here behind the wheel and they've made a similar kind of like look from the side. Now from the back, as you can see, you have the iconic round tail lights, but they're kind of chopped off here, which is a bit of an updated style and the jewel exhaust here on this side, just like the old car. And you've got the air outtake here as well. Very different design to the one in the 60s, but the idea is still there. Now, of course, back in the 60s, you didn't have lights on the top, but now you need to have them. So they put these little four lights up there. That's breaking lights here. You've also got a breaking light kind of F1 style and you've got your Alpha Romeo spelt out here on the back. Now, as I said, only 33 lucky people in the world will have this car. All of them are sold and it's rumored that the price is around two to three million. They don't really want to say because, of course, they don't need to sell any. So they're like, it's just between us and the people who bought it. Now, what is quite cool is, and you don't see this often in modern supercars, is this aluminium here in the centre console. This is very retro, isn't it? You've got real kind of like cockpit style handles here. So this will be the modes. You've just got Strada and Pista mode. And watch when I do this. Obviously, this is a concept, so it makes a little bit of noise. But here you have a fold out screen. The other cool thing is right here. Do you see this? This is actually the chassis number. Now, what's interesting is these last eight digits are personal to whoever buys the car, so they can literally choose any number they want. It's like the customer's signature on the car. Now, here, the Quadrifoglio, that is your launch button. Instead of a glove box, you've actually got a bag sitting here that you can open, put your stuff in. And along here, the aluminium style continues across the front. Steering wheel. So this is the original design from the 60s. And you've got the Alfa logo here. Now, the other place you've got the Alfa logo is over here. Look. You've got the cross and the snake kind of etched into the leather here on the door. Something new. And this one is not in the one from the 60s. You've also got these manual buttons here on the roof. So this is to control your windows. I am Cristiano Fiorio, and I'm head of strategic projects in Alfa Romeo. I met with Cristiano in a room that is protected by the government, because in this very room where I was talking to Cristiano is where the original design of the 33 Stradale was being designed by someone called Franco Scalione. So he was the designer of the original 33 Stradale and in that very room. So Cristiano was taking me through the original designs. Look at them laid out here on the desk. So that was really, really cool to be able to see that. That's me in a magazine in 1968. I asked Cristiano, when is the first one going to be delivered? And he said 17th of December, 2024, because that is the date that the very first design was sketched in that room. Let's go for a drive. What do you think guys? You into it? All right. What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments. And a massive thank you to Alfa Romeo for inviting me here to Milan to check this out.