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Certified Pre-Owned Inventory Open in a new window. Next view. Certified Pre-Owned Inventory. Bertone created a legend: the Giulietta. Carlo Abarth was asked to design a competitive vehicle at a time when Alfa Romeo had abandoned motor racing to concentrate on the Giulietta, however work on the proceeded anyway. Development stopped due to business reasons, and the remained an experimental prototype. The future was bright when Giuseppe Luraghi was named chairman.
With a new chairman and the launch of a new plant in Pomigliano d'Arco near Naples, Italy, Alfa Romeo anticipated steady growth in Italy and beyond. To mark the occasion, the traditional bottle of champagne was opened at Portello in Milan, Italy.
A special guest at the ceremony was another equally famous Giulietta — the actress Giulietta Masina. The automobile that challenged conventions and revolutionized design: a cut-off tail, concave sides, low nose and sinuous windshield. Tested in the wind tunnel in Turin, Italy, the Giulia was much more highly evolved than normal. It had a record aerodynamic coefficient of 0. It was pure innovation: a jewel of design, mechanics and passenger safety.
Chiti's people were committed to advancing Alfa Romeo's sporting image and international racing reputation. The relationship would continue until The Alfa Romeo featured a powerful 6-cylinder engine with five synchronized gears and outstanding road handling. The legend of the Duetto. Produced for 27 years, the Duetto was Alfa Romeo's most enduring model and had a unique cuttlebone shape and boat-like tail.
The Duetto Spider earned a permanent place in American popular culture. He delivered a true masterpiece — the 33 Stradale, known as one of most beautiful vehicles ever created. Only 18 were ever produced, and today it is valued at over 13 million dollars. Its shape was stylish, sculptural and sinuous. The vehicle created a sense of movement and aerodynamics. The 33 Stradale had a perfect design, as it was a sophisticated sports sedan brimming with charm, audacity and function. It would inspire Alfa Romeo's modern-day 4C.
Combining race car thrills with the essentials of a daily driver, the Montreal's V8-cylinder engine borrowed from the 33 produced HP and top speeds of mph.
It was a stylish, complex sports sedan. Front engine and rear gearbox gave the Alfetta perfect weight distribution — a feature that would set a precedent for the competition. Many different coupe and sedan versions appeared until , and engine sizes included 1. A powerful single-piece cylinder cc boxer engine with a Spica fuel injection system that produced HP at rpm. Driven by Watson and Lauda, the incredible downforce produced by the fan on the back would earn it the nickname of "Fan Car" during the Formula 1 championships.
The GTA Junior was the GTA 's mischievous little brother, with a lower cc and design cues that included a contrasting stripe on the side and large snake logo on the hood. Agile and super-fast, it locked up a series of victories in Group 2 at the European Championships. It won every competition in and secured the European Touring Car Challenge drivers' and manufacturers' championships, outranking automobiles that were much more powerful. Powerful and victorious, it came with a cylinder HP boxer engine.
The Alfa Romeo 33 TT 12 proved to be nearly unbeatable. It won seven out of eight races with Arturo Merzario at the wheel in four of them. The 33 SC 12 — an evolution of the 33 TT 12 — was an undisputed triumph. The top-of-the-range Alfetta coupe was equipped with a V6 engine that turned it into a supercar. It won turismo class competitions in Europe and achieved considerable success in the United States. Managed by Walter de Silva, the center was destined to handle significant projects like the , the Proteo and Nuvola prototypes, the , the and the MiTo.
Designed by Pininfarina, the Alfa was the first automobile produced after Alfa Romeo was sold to the Fiat group. A top-of-the-line sedan, it was roomy, powerful and stylish. It became so popular in America, that special versions were made for the U.
Safe and sporty, the Alfa Romeo was designed to replace the Its new technical setup featured front-wheel drive and independent wheel suspension on front and rear axles.
Taking the wheel of an outstanding V6 Ti, Tuscan-born Larini drove the fastest lap eleven times and finished first overall, beating the host nation in spectacular style. The birth of the was revolutionary; it marked the beginning of a new way of designing automobiles.
The Common Rail injection system for diesel engines proved to be a technological watershed, and a feature that would eventually be adopted by all automobile manufacturers. The myth of pure sportsmanship, 36 years later, lived on in two models which evoked the same emotions of days gone by: the GTA and the Sportwagon GTA.
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