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Alfa 2040.

A single-seat hypercar concept — an open-wheel body pulled around a central canopy, with front pods that float free of the nose and a rear wing grown out of the bodywork. Modelled in Rhino SubD, rendered in Light Tracer.

About the project

Sculpted by air.

Alfa 2040 imagines an Italian hypercar two decades out: a low, single-seat cell under a dark glass canopy, wrapped by a body that reads more like a sculpture than a shell. The front pods sit apart from the nose so the air can run between them, the sidepods are carved deep under the cockpit, and the bodywork flows rearwards into a wide, open rear wing.

Up front, the brand face is cut directly into the surface — a triangular grille flanked by three-element headlamps — so the identity is part of the form rather than added onto it.

Alfa 2040 hypercar concept, front three-quarter view in a red studio — **Front three-quarter** Candy-red body, carbon lower aero and the three-element headlamps.

STUDIO · PROFILE

Profile Long nose, cab-forward canopy and the rear wing rising out of the body.

Alfa 2040 concept head-on — **Face** Grille, headlamps and the domed canopy.

Alfa 2040 concept from the rear — **Rear** The wing and its open structure seen from behind.

Alfa 2040 concept from above, front three-quarter — **From above** Front pods floating free of the nose.

Alfa 2040 concept rear three-quarter — **Rear three-quarter** Tail lamp and diffuser blades.

Alfa 2040 concept plan view — **Plan** The figure-of-eight footprint: cockpit pod in the middle, wheels outboard.

Close-up of the Alfa 2040 bodywork — **Surface** Reflections running across the sidepod and canopy.

Process

From a SubD cage to a render.

The whole car is one Rhino SubD model, developed in five passes before it ever leaves the modelling viewport. Then it is lit in Light Tracer and taken into motion.

STEP 01 / 07

SubD blockout

One continuous SubD body in Rhino. Canopy, front pods and rear wing are blocked out on a light cage — proportions first, nothing else yet.

STEP 02 / 07

Shape the flow

The front pods break away from the body and the sidepods carve in under the canopy. Every edge loop follows where the air wants to go.

STEP 03 / 07

Front graphic

The brand face appears: the nose cut into the front surface, the splitter lip and the brake intakes take their final line.

STEP 04 / 07

Detail modeling

Grille, headlamp slots and a darker front mask. The surfaces are split into the parts a real car would be built from.

STEP 05 / 07

Cockpit & glass

Canopy glazing, driver cell, seat and helmet for scale. The model is now clean, closed and ready to render.

Alfa 2040 concept in Rhino — cockpit and glass

Alfa 2040 technical sheet with side, plan and front elevations and dimensions

Length: 4 380 mm
Width: 1 600 mm
Height: 900 mm
Layout: Single seat · open wheel
Modelling: Rhino 8 SubD
Rendering: Light Tracer

Dimensions in mm. Concept proportions — not a homologated package.

07 · Into motion

On track.

The same design carried out of the studio — pit lane, corner exit and a sunset run — then cut into a film with the wind tunnel.

Alfa 2040 concept parked in a pit lane — **Pit lane** Waiting at the garage line.

Alfa 2040 concept on a race track exiting a corner — **Corner exit** Kerb, motion blur, full lock.

Alfa 2040 concept on track at sunset — **Last lap** Low sun over the grandstands.

Alfa 2040 concept at speed past a grandstand, rear three-quarter — **Flat out** Rear wing and diffuser at speed.

FILM

The film Studio, wind tunnel and track (press play).

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