jalopnik.com was on hand for the US launch of the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione.

The $200,000-plus super car will be imported and distributed to select Maserati dealers, said James Selwa, Maserati's North American president. Fewer than 100 vehicles will be sold in the United States, and they will go on sale in 2008, he said.

"This is going to be a spectacular remaking of Meadow Brook ... and for us to do the debut of an Alfa Romeo in Detroit is a pretty significant action on our part," said the New Yorker, who also has a home in Bloomfield Hills.