Alfa Romeo 2600
Alfa Romeo
MarqueAlfa Romeo
Production1962–1968 / 11,346 produced: / 2,092 Berlina / 6,999 Sprint / 105 Sprint Zagato / 2,255 Spider / 54 OSI De Luxe
Engine2.6 L DOHC straight-6
Units built11,795
Alfa Romeo
The Alfa Romeo 2600 (Tipo 106) was Alfa Romeo´s six-cylinder flagship produced from 1962 to 1968. It was the successor to the Alfa Romeo 2000. It has become historically significant as the last Alfa Romeo to have been fitted with a straight-six engine with twin overhead camshafts. That had been the traditional Alfa Romeo engine configuration since the 1920s, but gave way to four-cylinder engines as the factory oriented its production towards more economical mass-produced car models starting in 1950.
The 2600 was introduced at the 1962 Geneva Motor Show, as a sedan with a factory-built body (2600 Berlina), a two-plus-two seater convertible with body by Carrozzeria Touring (2600 Spider), and a coupe with a body by Bertone (2600 Sprint). A convertible based on the Sprint coupe was shown by Bertone in 1963. It was also named 2600 Sprint, but did not enter production. The limited edition 2600 SZ (Sprint Zagato) with fastback coupe bodywork by Zagato, and the very limited-edition 2600 De Luxe with five-window sedan bodywork by OSI (Officine Stampaggi Industriali) were introduced three years later in 1965 at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
From the Wikipedia article Alfa Romeo 2600, CC BY-SA.
The Alfa Romeo 2600 is one of 194 Alfa Romeo models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1962. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Alfa Romeo 2600 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Ferrari Ferrari 250 GTO, the Maserati Maserati Quattroporte, the Jaguar Cars Jaguar E-Type — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Alfa Romeo 2600 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.6 L DOHC straight-6; kerb weight is recorded at 1220 –; drive goes through 5-speed manual; the layout is FR layout. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear. Production is recorded at 11,795 units, which makes it a low-volume car in industry terms.
Within Alfa Romeo's own catalogue the Alfa Romeo 2600 sits alongside the A.L.F.A 12 HP, the A.L.F.A 15 HP, the A.L.F.A 15-20 HP, the A.L.F.A 24 HP. The record names the Alfa Romeo 2000 as its predecessor and the Alfa Romeo Alfa 6 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Giorgetto Giugiaro at Bertone (Sprint) / Ercole Spada at Zagato (SZ) / Rodolfo Bonetto at Touring (Spider) / Giovanni Michelotti for OSI (Berlina De Luxe). Assembly is recorded at Italy: Portello Plant, Milan / South Africa: East London (Car Distributors Assembly: 1963–1968 – 2600 Berlina).
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