Background
Following up on the beautifully styled and highly responsive Spider 1750 Veloce, Alfa Romeo released the marque’s definitive postwar sports car, the 2.0-liter Spider 2000, in 1969. Carefully updated and renamed “Spider Veloce” by 1976, the Spider’s sexy Pininfarina-designed body was matched by the rapturous sound of its lusty, rev-happy DOHC inline 4-cylinder powerplant and sophisticated driving dynamics courtesy of its fully independent suspension and 4-wheel disc brakes.
Unlike many of its contemporaries, Alfa’s gorgeous Spider and its eventual subvariants successfully navigated the rapidly changing times and growing regulatory demands of the 1970s and 1980s and seemingly defied time itself with a lengthy production run extending through 1993 along four distinct series. Today, these wonderful driving machines enjoy new demand among sports-car enthusiasts for their renowned and highly engaging driving experience, delivered with a welcome dash of Continental flair.
By the latter 1980s, the Spider offered multiple models, from the entry-level Graduate to the Spider Veloce and the top-of-the-line Quadrifoglio – Italian for clover leaf, the emblem for Alfa Romeo’s competition program. Debuted for 1986, the Quadrifoglio was highly equipped with specially designed, leather-clad seats, alloy wheels, air conditioning, a revised front air dam, side skirts, a canvas convertible top and even a Pininfarina-built detachable hard top.








