Alfa Romeo Italdesign Scighera Presentation

1997 Concept car Scighera. The Alfa Romeo Scighera (pronounced Shigeera) is a fully working futuristically-styled concept car designed and constructed by Italdesign of Turin, Italy in 1997. The Scighera is derived from the 164, and has an all aluminium body and frame structure is made of aluminium-carbon fibre compositeand powered by an Alfa Romeo TwinTurbo 3-liter V6 engine, and could accelerate from 0-60 mph in 3.7 seconds. Horsepower was rated at 400 at 7,500 rpm, the Scighera had a top speed of 186 mph (299 km/h) and its four-wheel drive gave it crisp handling. The four wheel drive system was derived from Alfa Romeo 155.Italdesign was considering even a small scale production but that never happened.

The car is featured in the 1998 racing computer game Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit,

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Alfa
• Romeo
• Italdesign
• Scighera
• Presentation
• 1997
• concept
• car
• aluminium
• body
• TwinTurbo
• 3-liter
• 400hp
• horse
• power
• Fabrizio
• Giugiaro
• Need
• for
• Speed
• III
• Hot
• Pursuit

[xyoo97]

thats from need for speed hot pursuit 3!!

[giansgunit]

incredible design.. ots a shame that car wasnt on production.. its really really beautyful :)

[GapperFly]

top speed over 185mph and other rival cars cant beat that? hmmm i can think of cars decades older that can beat that (F1, F40...)

[GapperFly]

ahaha this is soo strange.  i remember this from like 7 years ago when i used to play this game on my COMPUTER :D

[uhrrtax]

@ElricMeln1 3 was called hot pursuit...

this car is from the same game where ford indigo was and italdesign scala... and that is need for speed 2 or need for speed special 2 edition

[ElricMeln1]

@uhrrtax its from 3..

[uhrrtax]

actually this is from need for speed 2 not 3

[undeny]

STILL looks modern.. imo.. WOW!!

[Frenchtoastdesign]

i'm proudly french but i have to say, "god bless italian design!":)

[JustAnotherUser565]

Too bad that this car isn't very well known. It's only video game debut was in NFS 3 Hot Pursuit and I would have loved to see this car make more appearances in games

[Skampo1119]

NO wonder i found it soooo familiar. Its from NFS hot pursuit 3!

[meepenator3]

I loved this car. Never knew it was an Alfa though.