Start with what the Alfa Romeo Iguana is: a 2-door coupé with 1995 cc DOHC V8, built from 1969, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign.
How it came about
The Alfa Romeo Iguana is a concept car produced by Alfa Romeo in 1969. It was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign.
The hardware
The engine is 1995 cc DOHC V8; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 700 kg. Drive goes through a 6-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 2350 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Alfa Romeo line-up the Alfa Romeo Iguana has a clear place: the factory was Turin, Italy. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Range Rover Range Rover, the Peugeot 504, the Toyota Hilux. Its Alfa Romeo stablemates include the A.L.F.A 12 HP and the A.L.F.A 15 HP.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Alfa Romeo Iguana — 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.