Alfa Romeo does not build many cars like the Alfa Romeo Navajo: a 2-door coupe with 2.0 L V8, built from 1976 as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. Its designer of record is Marcello Gandini at Bertone.
Where it came from
The Alfa Romeo Navajo is a concept car designed and built by Bertone on the chassis of an Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, and introduced at the 1976 Geneva Motor Show.
Under the skin
Under the skin sits 2.0 L V8. Kerb weight is 870 kg. The gearbox is a 6-speed Colotti 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 2430 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Ford Fiesta, the Lotus Esprit, the Volkswagen Polo. Nearby in the Alfa Romeo catalogue sit the A.L.F.A 12 HP and the A.L.F.A 15 HP.
The money
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Alfa Romeo Navajo has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.