The Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti is one of the defining touring cars of the 1990s. Before a single race had been run in the 1993 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft, Alfa Corse presented this machine to the public wearing race number 0 — a conventional pre-season designation for a launch-specification car. Top Marques Collectibles has reproduced that exact unveiling livery as a 1:18 scale model, offering collectors a variant distinct from every race-numbered car that followed.
Purpose-Built for the DTM
Despite sharing its silhouette with the 155 saloon sold in Alfa Romeo showrooms, the race car was an entirely different proposition. Developed by Alfa Corse, it used a purpose-built spaceframe chassis fitted with a V6 engine built to DTM specification. Four-wheel drive was fitted for the debut season in 1993, distinguishing the early cars from later rear-drive iterations.
Race Number 0 and the Championship That Followed
At the 1993 DTM season presentation, Alfa Romeo revealed the 155 V6 Ti in the red and white Alfa Corse colour scheme, with the number 0 identifying it as the official launch car. The livery predates all race-specific sponsor applications and driver numbers assigned during the season. That season ended with Nicola Larini claiming the drivers' title and Alfa Romeo taking the manufacturers' championship — an extraordinary double in the marque's first year of DTM competition. The number-0 car is therefore the prologue to one of touring-car racing's landmark stories.
Top Marques at 1:18
This 1:18 scale model is produced by Top Marques Collectibles. Top Marques is recognised among touring-car collectors for faithful reproduction of period racing colours, and the red and white Alfa Corse scheme on the 155 V6 Ti is among the most visually coherent DTM liveries of the era. The sealed one-piece body concentrates detail on the exterior aerodynamic surfaces and livery accuracy.
The Completionist Perspective
The number-0 presentation car is the logical anchor for any 155 V6 Ti collection in 1:18 scale. Collectors building out the 1993 Alfa Corse DTM story will recognise this as the pre-race chapter alongside the Larini and Nannini race cars. The model stands out on the shelf, and the red-and-white livery reads cleanly under cabinet lighting against the darker silhouettes typical of rival DTM machinery from the same period.
