Alfa Romeo BAT

Under the name of Alfa Romeo Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica, short Alfa Romeo BAT, three vehicle studies emerged in the 1950s, designed by the Italian aeronautical engineer and car designer Franco Scaglione in cooperation with the body designers " Nuccio " Bertone, the son of the founder of the body shop company Bertone.

The vehicles that were to marvel at car shows in the years 1953-1955, were developed in 1900 Super Sprint for Alfa Romeo on chassis of the Alfa Romeo, and should lead to a worthy successor to the legendary Alfa Romeo Disco Volante. The idea for the development of BAT vehicles created after visiting the plant at the Turin bodywork forgery Bertone. When drive units served four- cylinder in-line engines from their own home. The through design futuristic bodies of the vehicles with the type designations BAT 5 (1953), B.A.T. 7 (1954) and B.A.T. 9 (1955 ) was a real eye-catcher, especially due to the optimized streamline shape; the numbers 5, 7 and 9 are assigned by Alfa Romeo factory study numbers. Already the B.A.T. 5 reached due to its aerodynamic shape with cw- values ​​from 0.19 to 0.21 at a top speed of nearly 200 km / h The drag coefficients of the models presented in the following year BAT 7 were even lower. Optical nuclear indicative of the type 7 are mainly the oversized, rounded tail fins. Was used for the Type 7 one -line engine with 1975 cc and a power output of 86 kW. With the same basic engine also in the shaping much more restrained BAT was 9 equipped, its streamlined shape again compared to BAT 7 has been improved. Due to its shape and the type designations BAT vehicles are in common language as a Batmobile.

2008, a new project type of Alfa Romeo Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica with the prototype number BAT 11 presented.

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B.A.T. 11 (2008)