Terry Cobham

A real Italian espresso – Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1600

Photos don’t do it justice; they tend to flatten the curves. Rather than being made of the flat pieces of metal the pictures suggest, this car is in fact a collection of subtle and shaped curved lines that somehow look almost straight — sort of like Twiggy was in exactly the same era. The final result is just as pretty and doesn’t weigh much more than she did.
Milan, in the top left-hand corner of Italy, is a long-established home for Italian fashion houses, a place where craftspeople drape the finest materials over the finest forms to create some of the world’s finest fashion clothing. It is also home to another Italian design and create industry; it is the region that headquarters the Stellantis group, which used to be called Fiat, and Alfa Romeo is a part of that.