Again a victory for Alfa Romeo at „Motor Klassik Award“

Rüsselsheim, April 2022 – No “Motor Klassik Award” without a trophy for Alfa Romeo. At the 2022 edition, the traditional Italian brand won the award in the “Classic Coupés” category. The readers of the renowned classic car magazine elected the Alfa Romeo 1900C Super Sprint from the 1950s as their clear number one with a 30.8 percent share of the vote.

“It is a great honour and a cherished tradition for Alfa Romeo to be among the winners of the ‘Motor Klassik Award’. I am very proud that the expert readers have once again chosen one of our iconic models as the winner. The Alfa Romeo 1900C Super Sprint is not considered one of the most beautiful coupés of all time for nothing,” commented Niccolò Biagioli, Brand Country Director Alfa Romeo.

Motor Klassik magazine has been published since 1984. More than 18,000 readers took part in the current edition of the annual “Motor Klassik Award” competition. The awards ceremony took place at the “Retro Classics” trade fair in Stuttgart.

The history of Alfa Romeo 1900C Super Sprint

A new era began for Alfa Romeo in 1950 with the 1900 model. Founded in 1910, the brand transformed itself during this period from a manufacturer of exclusive luxury limousines and sports cars to a mass producer. Thanks to the introduction of industrial production methods, the Alfa Romeo plant in Milan’s Portello district built over 17,500 1900 series saloons between 1950 and 1959 – a number previously unattainable for the brand.

The 1900 model was the first Alfa Romeo with a self-supporting body. This design actually meant the end of the successful business model of numerous design studios. Until then, these could buy rolling chassis (chassis with wheel suspensions, engine, gearbox and drivetrain) from Alfa Romeo and complete them with a body they designed and manufactured themselves.
But Alfa Romeo responded to corresponding requests and also offered the chassis of the 1900 model without bodywork. For sporty convertibles and coupés, the wheelbase was shortened by 13 to 250 centimetres. This is indicated by the additional C (for the Italian corto) in 1900C.
The designation Super, for its part, stood for the most powerful engine variant in each case. The last version, the 1.9-litre four-cylinder with racing genes, produced 85 kW (115 hp). It had two overhead camshafts, which was not a matter of course at the time, nor was the five-speed gearbox.

More than a dozen carrozzieri designed their own coupés and cabriolets based on the Alfa Romeo 1900, including Touring, Pininfarina, Zagato, Bertone, Vignale and Ghia.