Ever since the first Alfa Romeo 4C made its European debut, it has received several awards, includingAuto Bild’s Design Award of 2011. As of now, the 4C has arrived in dealerships in the U.S as well and, in just a few weeks, the lightweight supercar has been awarded five significant titles, of which three were in the U.S and the rest in Ireland.
Starting off, the 4C has been named the ‘Best Performance and Luxury Car to Buy’ by Motor Authority, and according to their editor Nelson Ireson, the “Alfa Romeo 4C is beautiful, exotic and incredibly fun to drive” and continues that “it’s also tremendous value, offering a carbon fibre moncoque chassis and turbocharged mid-engine layout around the price of much more ordinary sports car”. In this case, he’s referring to the Ford Mustang, which the 4C beat out for the award this year.
Moving on, the 4C has also picked up the ‘Sports Car’ award in the ‘Popular Mechanics 2014 Car Awards’ and the 2015 AUTOMOBILE ‘All-Star’ award, which means it’s the car that the magazine’s readers want to drive the most. Mike Floyd, editor-in-chief at AUTOMOBILE, says that “the Alfa Romeo 4C reminds you what it means to drive with joy, with purpose” and continues, that’s why it won the ‘All-Star’ price.
In Ireland, the Italian 4C has been named ‘Performance Car of the Year’ by the APMP (Association of Professional Motoring Press), of which APMP Chairperson Michael Sherdian describes the 4C as “outrageous fun to drive” and that “Alfa Romeo has a true star with it’s pocket-rocket, the 4C”. It’s also been named the ‘Continental Irish Sports/Performance Car of the Year’ by the IMWA (Irish Motoring Writers’ Association), of which Austin Sinnors, Chairperson at IMWA, commented that “the Alfa Romeo 4C is a very worthy winner of the price and is an exciting car aesthetically and dynamically – it is a real thoroughbred Italian sports car in every way”.
As a refresher, the Italian lightweight sportscar Alfa Romeo 4C was revealed at the Geneva Motor Show in 2013, and is powered by a 1.75-litre straight-4 engine with 237 horsepower. It’s able to do a 0-60 mph sprint in just 4.5 seconds before it tops out at 160 mph. That’s the result of its Italian engineering and carbon-fibre monocoque, which results in a total weight of just 895 kg.
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