The 7 Greatest Cars at the 2015 Concorso Italiano - Automobile
The annual Concorso Italiano show is the largest Italian-focused event during the entire Monterey Car Week. While you’ll see Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Alfa Romeos and Maseratis at nearly every other event during the week, at Concorso Italiano, it’s nothing but these cars and their Italian cousins. Testarossas, 355s, and 430s were equally well represented, while the Alfa Romeo and Lamborghini sections were also filled out nicely with at least two of every car you’d expect to see. Argentinian Alejandro DeTomaso had his first taste of road car success with the Mangusta, Italian for “mongoose. ” With a 221-hp, 302-cubic-inch Ford V-8 mounted ahead of the rear axle, a five-speed ZF transmission and a chassis based on the previous Vallelunga race car, performance was brisk for its day. Of course, the styling -- including a gullwing-hinged engine compartment -- was this Italian-American car’s strong suit. By 1994, the mid-engined, flat-12-powered Ferrari Testarossa had been given a refresh once already but the fact that the original car had debuted 10 years prior could hardly be ignored. Ferrari was moving its V-12 line back to front-engined cars, but the 550 Maranello wasn’t yet ready and the F355 was about to launch as the company’s bread-and-butter model. Source: www.automobilemag.com
