The Alfa Romeo 8C Spider will cost £174,000 when it hits UK shores. That’s an extra £50,000 chunk over the 8C Coupe, which cost 130,000 euros before tax. Just 50 open-top 8Cs will make it here, to be shared amongst the 300 people who have placed a request for one. In total, there’ll be 500 [...]

The Alfa Romeo 8C Spider will cost £174,000 when it hits UK shores. That’s an extra £50,000 chunk over the 8C Coupe, which cost 130,000 euros before tax. Just 50 open-top 8Cs will make it here, to be shared amongst the 300 people who have placed a request for one. In total, there’ll be 500 built – just like the coupe.

For the hopefuls who put their name down for an 8C Spider, then fingers crossed – you’ve a one in six chance of landing one… For the rest of us, there’s certainly no harm in looking!

The Spider uses the same 4.7-litre V8 powerplant as the hard-top, which boasts 450bhp and 354lb ft alongside a 181mph top speed and 4.2sec dash to 62mph. After the 500 Spiders have been built and delivered to their lucky owners next summer, Alfa will then begin work on producing a Porsche GT3-style GTA version, which is intended to be a sportier, more hardcore 8C to close production of Alfa’s most expensive and exclusive car.  Prices and details for that are yet to be announced.

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