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    IL MOSTRO

    Sep 11, 2020 5 minutes
    WORDS ROWAN HORNCASTLE
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    PHILIPP RUPPRECHT
    “INTERNALLY, THE NEW GTA HAS ALWAYS BEEN DUBBED ‘IL MOSTRO’”

    When Alfa Romeo needed something to celebrate its 110th birthday, the Italian brand had lofty ambitions. Where we’d have simply plunged one hundred and ten candles into the back of a chocolate caterpillar cake and set off a car-shaped confetti cannon, it wanted to build… an icon.

    And not just any birthday icon, but according to Fabio Migliavacca, Alfa’s product marketing chief, a Ferrari-40thbirthday kind of icon. Remember what that was? The Ferrari F40. Talk about punchy inspiration. What they eventually came up with was the Giulia GTA, and here’s why we’re fans…

    1 It’s got a badge that makes Alfathusiasts lick their lips and dribble

    To even have a chance at coming close to something

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