Alfa Romeo Disco Volante Spyder Touring


The Alfa Romeo Disco Volante Spyder is a two-seater open top car, based on the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Spider. It is built for discerning customers in just seven examples, more than half of which have been sold already. The model being showcased at Geneva is the first of the series.

Bringing together under one roof a talented design team and skilled craftsmen who preserve and maintain the art of the panel beating whilst integrating the most advanced engineering tools. This is the formula that allows Touring to fulfil the rising demand for truly exclusive coach built cars.


The Alfa Romeo Disco Volante Spyder is inspired by the 1952 Alfa Romeo C52 also present on the Touring stand courtesy of Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile "Giovanni Agnelli" of Turin. The Museo will host a retrospective exhibition encompassing the whole history of Touring in autumn 2016.

On its way to the 1953 New York motor show, the C52 had already gained the Disco Volante nickname, Italian for 'Flying Saucer'. Once again, Touring had sparked the public's imagination with a groundbreaking shape on what was the eve of space age.

As usual with Touring Superleggera, the lines and volumes were dictated by a strict functional requirement: the new car had to be "insensitive to wind". The Disco Volante was to become the best example of Touring's founder, Felice Bianchi Anderloni's philosophy: "Weight is the enemy, air resistance the obstacle".


The Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Spider was chosen as donor car for its light and stiff structure and its outstanding dynamic properties. It forms the perfect basis for the coach-built bodywork of the Alfa Romeo Disco Volante Spyder, which integrally conserves the rolling chassis and drive train.

The lightweight and compact 4.7 litre V8 engine delivers 450 Hp and 480 Nm peak torque. It is coupled with a six-speed sequential transaxle gearbox with electronic control and paddle-shift gear selection. Combined with a limited-slip differential and a state-of-the-art carbon-ceramic braking system including large diameter, ventilated discs, the package ensures a precise, dynamic and proactive drive.

The Alfa Romeo Disco Volante Spyder can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 4,5 seconds and has a top speed of approximately 292 Km/h.


Touring Superleggera is synonymous with the manufacture of lightweight bodywork. The weight advantage of aluminium is one of the assets of Touring Superleggera's construction methods. Nowadays however, the crafted hand-beaten aluminium panels are widely combined with carbon fibre. Precise studies have defined the optimal choice of materials for the bodywork in terms of weight, resistance, precision, finish, quality, and ease of repair in case of damage.

Carbon fibre is used for the front bumper and grille, the bonnet, the skirts, the boot lid, the integrated windscreen frame, the rear cross member and the roof. Bonnet and boot lid are sandwich-built with Nomex filler to obtain a better stiffness/weight ratio and to dampen vibration and noise.

The price of the Alfa Romeo Disco Volante Spyder is on demand. Touring Superleggera delivers the complete car six months after the donor Alfa Romeo 8C Spider is made available.