The Alfa Romeo 185T is one of the Alfa Romeo entries the open record knows by name and by date — in 1985, and by little else. That is not nothing: a name in the catalogue is where a car's story starts to be recoverable. Its designer of record is Mario Tollentino (Technical Director) / John Gentry (Chief Designer).
How it came about
The Alfa Romeo 185T is a Formula One car that Alfa Romeo used during the 1985 season. The car was entered in 8 races, but without any success and suffering from poor reliability, the team returned to the previous year's car, the 184T, updated to 184TB specification. This was the last Alfa Romeo Formula One car before their return with Sauber Engineering in 2019.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Alfa Romeo's history is not in doubt: the 184T came before it; the C38 followed it. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Ferrari Testarossa, the Renault Espace, the SEAT Ibiza. Its Alfa Romeo stablemates include the A.L.F.A 12 HP and the A.L.F.A 15 HP.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Alfa Romeo 185T — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.