The Alfa Romeo Canguro is a 2-door coupe from Alfa Romeo, built from 1964, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. Under the bonnet: 1.6 . Giorgetto Giugiaro at Bertone drew it.
How it came about
The Alfa Romeo Canguro is a concept car designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro at Bertone. The car is based on the chassis of an Alfa Romeo TZ and was shown at the 1964 Paris Motor Show. The body is made of fiberglass rather than aluminium and it features one of the first glued in windscreens in a car. The name "Canguro" means Kangaroo in Italian.
The hardware
Power comes from 1.6 . It weighs 650 kg. It shifts through a 5-speed manual. The layout matters: the engine sits behind the driver and ahead of the rear axle, which puts the mass in the middle of the car and is why mid-engined cars change direction the way they do. The wheelbase is 2200 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Plymouth Barracuda, the Porsche 911, the Ford Bronco — show what else the money bought that year. Its Alfa Romeo stablemates include the A.L.F.A 12 HP and the A.L.F.A 15 HP.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Alfa Romeo Canguro — 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.