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"I remember the first time I saw a Montreal on the street. In fact, I could probably pick out the actual spot on a map (I think it&amp;#039;s where the G55 is parked). Which, on the one hand, is kind of pitiful, but, on the other, says something about the impression this car makes in person. I don&amp;#039;t think any car of the 1960s looked more like a car from the future, not even the Miura, which was the previous project of Bertone&amp;#039;s Marcello Gandini. In fact, the Alfa Romeo Montreal was supposed to be &amp;quot;man&amp;#039;s highest aspiration for automobiles,&amp;quot; according to Gooding &amp;amp;amp; Co. The engine was derived from its Tipo 33 race car, a lovely little 2.6-liter quad-cam V8, good for 200 hp with fuel injection. Add a five-speed and four-wheel discs, and you&amp;#039;ve got roughly the spec of a fun-to-drive Scion FR-S but, of course, in an Italian package making V8 sounds. Not bad for the 1960s. It was hypothetically produced for Europe only, although about 100 examples trickled into the U.S. Coincidentally, about 50 percent of those reportedly entered the country through Vermont via Montreal, Canada. There were some serious EPA hoops to jump through for those who didn&amp;#039;t want to risk their cars being crushed, but this car has its exemptions in hand. Looking at pictures really doesn&amp;#039;t convey the impact of a Montreal in the wild among normal cars. It&amp;#039;s a V8 on a 92-inch wheelbase, and the whole thing is only 166 inches long. That, friends, is one inch shorter than a first-generation Kia Rio. And then there&amp;#039;s the sound\u2014pure V8 race engine, the most thrilling this side of a V12. It&amp;#039;s a smooth yet stuttering bass drum that hits you deep in the chest. And yet, they&amp;#039;re competitive in price with, say, a new base Mercedes-Benz E350 coupe. In a world where the McLaren F1 I profiled earlier sold for $8,470,000, how is a Montreal a fraction of the price? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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