Alfa romeo zagato stradale. As the name suggests the alfa romeo stradale italian for road legal 33 was a road legal version of a race car in this case the tipo 33. The alfa romeo sz coupe has always been a bit of an oddity and this used example from the usa has just come across our radar. At its core its a dodge viper with a custom coachbuilt body.
This alfa romeo badged zagato tz3 stradale is based on the viper powered by the acrs mighty 640 hp 84 liter v10 engine. Sitting beneath the vehicles unique zagato bodywork is a 30. The car is currently for sale at tsg autohaus in costa mesa ca and.
A decade ago alfa romeo marked its 100th birthday with the tubolare zagato or tz for short a limited edition supercar that paid homage to some of its most famous machines. It has been a decade since it was launched but the 2010 alfa romeo tz3 stradale zagato is just as bizarre and beautiful as the day it was revealed. Of torque in a front mid enginerear drive layout.
Tsg autohaus the car is number seven of the nine zagato tz3 stradales built and was originally acquired by a customer in italy. The zagato tz3 stradale on the other hand was powered by the dodge viper acr x with an 84 liter v 10 pumping out 640 bhp and 585 lb ft. The alfa romeo tz3 stradale is the road version of the tz3 hence the name tz3 stradale stradale meaning road in italian designed by norihiko harada of zagato and was built to celebrate 100 years of alfa romeo on the road.
Now one of just nine stradale versions is going under the hammer with rm sothebys. Zagato boasts that the tz3 stradale is the first american alfa in automotive history insiders have long noted that there are parallels between viper and stradale.