Alfa Romeo

This week the 10th annual Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award was presented, an unsanctioned concours award that has captured the world's attention and been embraced into its culture, unifying an industry and redefining the winners.

The voluptuous new Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale rings in a new era while paying respects to the past, carrying a gas-electric powertrain split inside bodywork inspired by the legendary 1967 33 Stradale. It seems a shoe-in for "prettiest car of 2023."

The Tonale was first introduced as an all-new Alfa Romeo model for the 2024 model year. As the new entry point for the brand, it sets the tone for the rest of the Alfa Romeo brand’s future.

Salon Privé is best known for its globally recognized Concours d’Elégance, but over the 15 years since it began, it has grown into a week of automotive celebration that encompasses important car and luxury product launches and an upmarket lawn party.

Monterey Car Week is upon us once more, and the auction cluster that provides a large part of the show at the week-long automotive celebration is shaping as the biggest in history.

Alfa Romeo has stepped into a new era of electrification. The all-new Tonale has debuted as a little 272-hp (200-kW) plug-in bulldog that comes loaded with tech, including an NFT certificate that evolves right along with the car.

In addition to crowning a new Best of Show at the world’s most important Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach, two of the last three Peninsula Classics Best of the Best winners were there, plus 38 former Pebble Beach winning cars.

"Weight is the enemy, air resistance the obstacle." Not novel ideas for fast vehicles, but the all-new Aero 3 from Touring Superleggera was developed with a brief featuring that simple phrase bolded at the top. And it very much shows.

After the first big online-only foray by the biggest automotive auction cluster on Planet Earth, it's clear that automobiles are not particularly suited to online-only auctions, but that significant strides were made in the right direction.

Italian shop Totem Automobili brings the 1970s Alfa Romeo Giulia GT Junior into the 21st century with a 518-hp electric drive and gives it a full carbon fiber makeover to strip weight, enhance performance and bring the look up to date.

Based on a current-generation Giulia Quadrifoglio, the Giulia GTA draws its inspiration from the Giulia Gran Turismo Alleggerita of 1965. The race-winner of that era became a legend, and Alfa hopes the new street-legal versions of the GTA will do the same.

The Monterey Car Week auctions left the collector car world in a state of shock. Sales totals were expected to be similar to 2018 when 850 cars sold for US$370 million but when the hammer fell for the final time in Monterey, just 770 cars had fetched $245 million – a shortfall of 80 cars and $125 million, or 34 percent down. Here's a car-by-car glance.