Alfa Romeo Vola
Alfa Romeo · introduced 2005
Alfa Romeo · introduced 2005
The Alfa Romeo Vola is a concept car designed by Leonardo Fioravanti in 2000. The car was presented for the first time at the 2001 Geneva Motor Show. One of its most notable features is a rotating glass roof. The deck lid hinges are concentric with the top, so the trunk access is freely available, as the open roof sits on top of the trunk lid.
Originally livered in black with red interior, the Vola was shown at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show with a red paint and brown upholstery. The same idea was later used in the Ferrari Superamerica from 2005, also designed by Fioravanti and patented as a Revocromico roof. In 2008 the rear buttresses of the Vola were remodelled similar to the Superamerica. Fioravanti also refers to the car as the "Alfa Romeo LF."
From the Wikipedia article Alfa Romeo Vola, CC BY-SA.
Among the 194 Alfa Romeo entries in the MotorJury library, the Alfa Romeo Vola holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2005. 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 Vola properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. 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 Aston Martin Aston Martin Vantage, the Kia Kia Sportage, the Bugatti Bugatti Veyron — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Alfa Romeo Vola reads like this: the record lists its engine as 3.0L Alfa Romeo 12V V6; kerb weight is recorded at aka = Fioravanti Vola; drive goes through 5-speed manual; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. 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.
Within Alfa Romeo's own catalogue the Alfa Romeo Vola 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 successor = as its predecessor and the class = Concept car as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Leonardo Fioravanti.
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