The existing Crossfire is a small(ish) two seater coupe or roadster, front engine, RWD, with either a naturally aspirated or forced induction V6 engine. Most of it was sourced through Mercedes Benz. We all know this, I'm not telling anyone anything new.

But MB is out of the picture now, and Fiat is in. And under the Fiat empire we also find Ferrari (not going to be any mash up there as Ferrari is sacred), Maserati (not quite sacred, but playing to a much more exclusive demographic than the Chrysler brand), Lancia (which already has some mash ups with Chrysler via the 300 and 200 being rebadged as Lancias in Europe) and Alfa Romeo. And here's where it gets fun.......... Alfa Romeo, maker of fantastic little lightweight two seater sports cars for decades. And the 4C concept looks like it's about to become a reality, and it would be the perfect platform for a new Crossfire, updating all the running gear to current thinking.

So what's an Alfa Romeo 4C, you ask?

A small, two seat sports car featuring RWD, a mid engine layout, a curb weight below 2000lbs, and a turbo charged 4 cylinder engine making 230HP but capable of 300HP or more. So the "Limited" gets the 230HP which, in a car that weighs 1,000lbs less than the current Crossfire would yield fantastic performance (think Lotus Exige) and the SRT would get the 300HP version (which would offer stunning performance in such a lightweight car). More on the 4C at the link below.

Alfa Romeo 4C - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Stay with me now.................

+fireamx linked to a old thread where some sketches by the "Creator" were shown, and I've copy/pasted that here:


OK, so take the info offered above on the 4C, and wrap it in bodywork along the lines of those sketches - which already have intakes along the flanks that are perfect for feeding a mid engine layout - and you've got the next Crossfire. And it's all workable - it's a new/current Fiat owned platform, and replicating it under the Chrysler badge would be relatively inexpensive since the bulk of the engineering work is done, and it would amortize the investment over a broader sales spectrum since you'd have the Alfa version in Europe and elsewhere and the Chrysler in North America. The turbo engines fit perfectly into the current thinking of smaller displacement engines using forced induction to meet performance expectations of the buyers and fuel economy demands of the government. BMW, MB, Audi and everyone else is doing it for the same reasons, as is Fiat in other applications.



And that, my friends, is what the next generation Crossfire would be.
Could be.
Should be.


But, sadly, I doubt it ever will be.