Now Visconti remembered the Ital Design company and its head, the famous Giorgetto Giugiaro. Having so called the concept car, the designers tried to emphasize the long-standing and close ties with Alfa Romeo. By the way, one of the first works of Ital Design was the Alfasud model - one of the most successful cars with a snake-cross emblem.
For the Visconti concept, Ital Design masters chose a new, so-called “premium platform”, on which the successor to the Alfa Romeo 156 with sedan and station wagon bodies, as well as sports coupes and roadsters, are being designed. The platform was extended by 20 mm, the base was brought up to 2825 mm. The length of the Visconti sedan is almost 5 meters.
However, the car does not look heavy at all, but rather in an athletic heat. And the motif of the sloping roof and the shortened trunk Maestro Giugiaro borrowed … himself. Back in 1993, similar solutions were applied, creating the conceptual “Bugatti-EB 112”.
"Curvy" trunk "Visconti" is not at all small - 458 liters. Anyway, Giugiaro specifically emphasizes that the concept car was built, limiting the imagination of designers in the name of proximity to mass production. For example, the front of the body when meeting with pedestrians will be merciful to them, satisfying promising safety requirements.
Even the spectacular front air intakes are not a stylistic sophistication, but a necessity dictated by a powerful engine. The V6 unit with a working volume of 3.2 liters was created on the basis of the already well-known Alfa Romeo motor. Power brought up to 405 liters. with.
Transmission - six-speed automatic, four-wheel drive transmission, air suspension with adjustable stiffness. And the Brembo company specially for the Visconti created brakes with eight-piston calipers, and the Pirelli company provided 225 / 50R19 tires.
