Alfa Romeo is to release a special edition Brera in conjunction with Italian design house 'Italia Independent', which includes what it calls 'opaque' paint.
The Brera 'Italia Independent' is essentially a rather plush packaging exercise, offering lots of aesthetic and comfort goodies to the oddball coupe-hatch. Alfa's partners in the project seem to design all sorts of things, from suits and sunglasses through to fabric vases (really).
As for that intriguing paintwork, the press release boasts that it is "... the first standard-production car to offer opaque paintwork over its entire body". We're not entirely certain what this means just yet (we hope to bring you an answer to this shortly), but looking at the pictures it appears to be a matt effect, in a colour known as 'Titanium'.
The colour scheme is carried over to some rather lovely turbine-pattern black wheels, and other details such as an aluminium fuel cap, red-painted brake callipers and a smattering of 'Italia Independent' logos help to set the exterior off rather smartly, even if it is perhaps a little severe for some tastes, and does run the risk of looking a bit like a chalkboard.
Inside, we're told a good smattering of carbonfibre and aluminium will continue the solid, clean-cut look of the exterior, with black leather and red stitching mirrored in a retrimmed instrument panel with round red frames.
The Brera 'Italia Independent' can be ordered with the 2.2 JTS (185bhp) or the 3.2 V6 (260bhp) versions of the car, but only 900 will be made and we don't yet know how many are destined for our fair shores. When it goes on sale in Italy in September, a 2.2 JTS Selespeed version will set fashion-conscious Italians back 32,200 euros, approximately £27,800.
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