When Audi and BMW walked away from the DTM in the early 1990s, Germany’s legendary touring car championship stood on the brink of collapse. Then came a scarlet machine that changed everything — the Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti. Armed with a screaming 12,000-rpm naturally aspirated V6, advanced aerodynamics, and radical all-wheel-drive technology, Alfa Romeo arrived as an outsider and immediately shook the entire paddock. This video tells the extraordinary story of how a single bold project revived an entire championship and ignited one of the most spectacular eras in touring car racing history.

From secret development inside Abarth and Alfa Corse to Nicola Larini’s dominant 1993 season, fierce battles with Mercedes-Benz, and the technological arms race of Class 1 regulations, this is the rise, reign, and eventual fall of one of motorsport’s most iconic touring cars. A story of innovation, passion, and Italian defiance — and how the howl of a red Alfa V6 helped save the DTM. For more content like this one follow us also on Facebook, Pinterest or Instagram!