Anyone Fancy A 738bhp Ferrari-Powered Alfa 4C? This Mad Company Wants To Make One

With 237bhp, the Alfa Romeo 4C isn’t hugely powerful. But then, as a low-weight, carbon-fibre tubbed sports car, it doesn’t need much in the way of firepower to be pretty damn quick; it’ll do 0-62mph in 4.5 seconds after all. But try telling that to Lazzarini Design.

This Rome-based design studio wants to whip out the 1.75-litre Alfa four-pot, and dump in a 4.3-litre Ferrari-sourced V8. Not content with doing just that, these mad Italians hope to get hold of a twin-turbocharger setup from Hennessey, to give what it calls the ‘4C Definitiva’ an unholy 738 bhp and 532 lb ft of torque.

The company reckons this should help the mutated 4C sort the 0-62mph dash in just 2.5 seconds, and dispatch a standing-quarter in 9.5 seconds.

To keep all this insanity in check, the car features a bodykit with various aero devices, including a front splitter, lower side skirts, a rear diffuser, and a jolly great rear wing.

Unfortunately, though, it’s time to get our cynic hats on. Lazzarini claims that the car is in development and has even given a price figure for the first prototype - €250,000 (£198,000). However, all this strongly whiffs of a rather ambitious pipe dream, and Lazzarini’s previous car modification project, a Ferrari-engined Fiat 500 (above) didn’t - as far as we know - spawn anything in real life. However, in the case of this 4C creation, we’re happy to be proven wrong.