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I ronically, the man who founded what became Alfa Romeo and envisioned an automotive revolution neither drove nor enjoyed riding in motorcars. Draftsman and engineer Pierre Alexandre Darracq preferred bicycles as his own mode of transport but relished design challenges. That set him upon the many challenges available to designers of early automotives.

An early model from Darracq—a 9 CV single cylinder car from 1902.