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Milan-based Touring Superleggera has paid homage to the 1952 Alfa C52 Disco Volante with a new model

Milan-based Touring Superleggera has paid homage to the 1952 Alfa Romeo C52 Disco Volante with a new Alfa 8C-based car at the Geneva motor show.

The front-engined, two-seat Disco Volante 2012 by Touring will be built as a “very limited series model”.

Those wanting one must first buy an 8C and Touring — the coachbuilder behind the shooting brake version of the Bentley Continental GT — will then take six months to turn it into a Disco Volante 2012.

It retains the 8C’s 444bhp 4.7-litre V8 but gets hand-beaten aluminium body panels. Carbonfibre is also used on the bodywork.

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