sfo:
Upsa:

Disaster, both in terms of styling & engineering. Good for young ricky racer types though who want to elevate from typically Honda ricers etc though

 as I read it, it's going to be above 981S price wise

Eeeps. Add financial to the styling & engineering disasters. 

That aside, I can understand where Alfa is coming from as a beleaguered company......desperate times call for desperate measures.  I remember growing up thinking of the spyder as one hell of a sexy car. But not like the 911