After readers of the specialised German magazine Auto Zeitung named the new Alfa Romeo 4C winner of the Imported Sportscars category in the 26th edition of ‘Auto Trophy’ and men’s lifestyle FHM Magazine in the UK named the Alfa Romeo 4C Car of the Year 2013, the model started off 2014 with four new accolades that keep confirming it as the most admired and desirable of all.
In France the Alfa Romeo 4C won the prestigious grand award Most Beautiful Car of the Year 2013 at the 29th International Automobile Festival. The 4C was elected in a worldwide internet survey conducted with the collaboration of multimedia partners of the event Le Point, Auto Addict, Automobiles Classiques, AD and JC Decaux.
In Germany the readers of the specialist magazine Auto, Motor und Sport chose the Alfa Romeo 4C to receive the title of Best Car 2014 in the Importers ranking – sportscars category – ahead of 28 other models and super sportscars.
More than 115,000 readers chose the Alfa Romeo 4C as the most exciting import sportscar of the year as a model that ‘represents the essential sportiness embedded in the Alfa Romeo DNA: performance and technical excellence for maximum driving pleasure combined with a breathtaking style’.
And only very recently, Motor weekly and Auto Moto monthly in Poland published the results of the Auto Lider 2013 competition, in which Polish readers were asked to express their preference for their favourite car models, technological innovations and automotive marketing projects of 2013.
A total of over 160,000 votes were cast on the web and in texts. The first prize of the readers of both magazines in the Sportscars and Convertibles sector went to the Alfa Romeo 4C, well ahead of the other 20 finalists in this category.
The beguiling Italian supercar was followed on the podium by BMW 4 series and Porsche 911 Turbo S, second and third in the ranking respectively.
Essential sportiness embedded in Alfa DNA
The Alfa Romeo 4C, which will be launched in Australia later this year, has also claimed the highest prize in the Sports Car category of Le auto che preferisco (The cars I like) from the Italian monthly Quattroruote.
The 4C was designed by Alfa Romeo engineers and is built at the Maserati plant in Modena, Italy. It features extensive use of lightweight materials including carbon fibre to give it a total dry weight of just 895kg. The sports coupé accelerates from 0-100 km/h in 4.5 seconds on the way to a top speed of 258 km/h. An optimal weight distribution of 40 per cent over the front axle and 60 per cent over the rear aids its racecar-like handling.