Two ultra-low-mile Alfa Romeo 8Cs, including a coupe with 10 miles, are hitting the auction block in new condition
Alfa Romeo’s new $2 million 33 Stradale is currently on display in LA’s Petersen Museum, where cleaners presumably have to regularly mop away pools of drool. But elsewhere in California another two modern Alfa icons have marque fans salivating, this time over their as-new condition and delivery mileage.
Only 500 8C Competizione coupes were produced between 2008 and 2010, and just 90 of those were officially sold in the US. To that we can add 500 examples of the topless 8C Spider, of which 35 made their way to America.
A Collector’s Dream Pair
A wealthy US Alfa Romeo fan bought one of each, the cars being sent direct from the dealer to the owner’s private museum where they’ve stayed ever since. The Spider’s odometer shows just 19 miles (31 km) and the Competizione is even fresher. It’s done just 10 miles (16 km) from new. Basically, both cars have what we call delivery mileage.
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Neither 8C has quite the wow factor of the new 33 as they lack the latter’s gullwing doors and mid-engined layout. But they were hailed as some of the world’s most beautiful cars on their auto show debut in 2006 (coupe) and 2008 (Spider), and time hasn’t dulled their desirability.
Alfa Style, Maserati Bones
Under the skin of both is a 2000s Maserati Coupe platform,and a version of that car’s Ferrari-built 4.7-liter V8 that shares some DNA with a Ferrari 430’s engine, but swaps the Fezza’s flat-plane crank for a more burbly cross-plane variety.
It makes 444 hp (450 PS) and 354 lb-ft (480 Nm), which is sent to the rear wheels through a clunky automated manual paddle-shift transmission. Alfa never offered an 8C manual, though a Swiss company has engineered a gated-shift conversion.
Finished in classic Rosso Alfa with matching red leather, carbon-backed bucket seats and rolling on 20-inch clover-leaf alloys, the 8Cs look like they’ve stepped straight off the auto show stage. The window sticker reveals the owner paid Maserati San Francisco $305,675 in 2008 for the honor of taking the coupe home, which equates to $459k in 2025 money. With such low mileages it’s possible they could make that back, and you could potentially afford to buy both for less than half the cost of a new 33 Stradale.
Which Keys Would You Grab?
If you’ve ever wanted to park a pair of showroom-fresh Alfas in your garage and annoy every Cars and Coffee regular within a five-mile radius, now’s your chance. You can check out the Competizione listing here, and the Spider here. The only question is, which set of keys would you take first?
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