![Alfa Romeo’s Berlina Aerodinamica Tecnica trilogy Classic & Sports Car – $14.8m sale for Alfa Romeo BAT car trio](/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/2020-10/Classic%20%26%20Sports%20Car%20%E2%80%93%20_Alfa-Romeo-Berlina-Aerodinamica-Tecnica-5-7-9d-_203_0.png?itok=kKpv-LDe)
The three spectacular Alfa Romeo BAT cars were sold last night (28 October 2020) for an appropriately eye-watering $14,840,000, at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York.
Achieving a price within the $14-20m pre-sale estimate, the cars were sold as a single lot, so will remain together.
Franco Scaglione’s incredible designs still look space-age today, so when the first of the Berlina Aerodinamica Tecnica trilogy was unveiled in 1953, the impression it left was surely out of this world.
![Alfa Romeo BAT 5 was revealed in 1953 Classic & Sports Car – $14.8m sale for Alfa Romeo BAT car trio](/sites/default/files/2020-10/Classic%20_%20Sports%20Car%20%E2%80%93%20_Alfa-Romeo-Berlina-Aerodinamica-Tecnica-5-7-9d-_2412.png)
![Inside the Alfa Romeo BAT 5 Classic & Sports Car – $14.8m sale for Alfa Romeo BAT car trio](/sites/default/files/2020-10/Classic%20_%20Sports%20Car%20%E2%80%93%20_Alfa-Romeo-Berlina-Aerodinamica-Tecnica-5-7-9d-_2713.png)
![Alfa Romeo BAT 5 from overhead Classic & Sports Car – $14.8m sale for Alfa Romeo BAT car trio](/sites/default/files/2020-10/Classic%20_%20Sports%20Car%20%E2%80%93%20_Alfa-Romeo-Berlina-Aerodinamica-Tecnica-5-7-9d-_2914.png)
BAT 5’s aerodynamic shape was revealed to the world in 1953