#AlfaRomeo2000Sprint

The new 2000 series, consisting of sedan and spider, lacks the coupé version, the car body that best suits an Alfa Romeo. At the beginning, the "old" 1900C SS "Giuliettona", launched the year before, continued to be produced, but the best Italian coachbuilders were encouraged to practice on the chassis of the new Alfa Romeo, also made available because the wealthiest customers still accustomed to cars produced "to measure", they could "dress" according to their tastes. Until 1960 several proposals arrived from Pinin Farina, with the 2000 Coupé Sestriere, from Vignale, with a coupé designed by Michelotti, and finally by Bertone, with two models, a two-door version of the standard sedan and the elegant coupé Sole, but none of these are accepted. So in 1960 it was decided to produce a new Sprint chassis with a 2580 mm wheelbase, intermediate to that of the sedan and spider, equipped with the same 115 HP engine as the spider. The first car proposed on this chassis is the 2000 Sprint Praho, a luxurious coupé built by Carrozzeria Touring in 1960. The Praho remained a prototype also because at the same time the 2000 Sprint was presented, designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro for the Bertone bodywork on the same chassis. This model was judged very positively by the Alfa Romeo management and immediately put into production thanks above all to the design of the front, characterized by an absolute novelty.

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