Italian company SGT Automobili has announced the coming of a limited series of cars built on Alfa Romeo’s modern Giulia Quadrifoglio Verde platform, but with an exterior and cabin heavily inspired by the automaker’s model 155. Everything else gets overhauled, too.
The body of the project car is all-new and consists of carbon fiber, Kevlar and what the company calls “carbotitanium”. Depending on your powertrain choices, the whole thing weighs between 1,490 and 1,590 kilograms (3,285–3,505 pounds) with the liquids already in.
Things like carbon-fiber suspension arms and integrated jacks for rapid tire swaps leave no doubt that the car is built for track use first and foremost. The same can be said about its body kit, which generates 460 kilos (1,014 lbs) of downforce and notably features a Formula-1-style active rear wing.
Interior highlights include two ultralight bucket seats in the front row, a semi-cage where the rear row used to be, and fit-and-finish inspired by the original Alfa Romeo 155.
Power for the wheels is provided by the Giulia’s standard 2.9-liter twin-turbo V6 boosted to either 620 PS (612 hp / 456 kW) or 750 PS (740 hp / 552 kW). The former spec is known as the Stradale and the latter as the Trofeo. Both are AWD by default, but can decouple the front axle for some RWD fun.
All prices are individual, but the company estimates the minimum cost of a Stradale retromod at €500,000 plus whatever the donor Giulia QV costs to procure.