The Alfa MiTo and Alfa Giulietta are to get a 5 Year Warranty from Alfa Romeo in the UK – but there’s a catch. What is it that makes car buyers brand loyal? It’s a good question, and if there was an easy answer car makers would be stealing each others customers at will. For […]
Alfa Romeo MiTo Review (2012): Quadrifoglio Verde (Cloverleaf)
We have the range-topping Alfa Romeo MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde (Cloverleaf) in for a week for review and test. The Alfa Romeo MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde (or Alfa MiTo Cloverleaf to us linguistically challenged Brits) is Alfa’s efforts at a proper little hot hatch and gets the very good 170bhp 1.4 litre MultiAir engine under the bonnet, offering real performance promise. […]
Alfa MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde: World record for soggy rubber
The Alfa MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde has broken the world record for bursting balloons filled with water in a car – 2,738 balloons. There was a time, when Guinness World Records were new and fascinating, that there was a world record for every daft idea you could think of. And there still is (even though most are […]
Alfa Romeo MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde, 2500 ballons & an Alfa competition
Alfa has taken the Alfa Romeo MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde, set it in to attack mode and created a competition to win an Alfa day at Goodwood. Alfa in the UK rather like a bit of social media promotion. So they’ve set up a competition to promote the quite warm Alfa Romeo MiTo Quadrifoglio. But instead of […]
Alfa MiTo 1.3 JTDM-2 – paint job by Louise Dear
Alfa Romeo are promoting their congestion charge busting Alfa MiTo 1.3 JTDM-2 85bhp with an ‘Art Car’ painted by Louise Dear. Alfa Romeo are pushing quite a few PR buttons with the congestion charge busting Alfa MiTo 1.3 JTDM-2 85bhp, the latest of which is the ‘Art Car’ in the photo above. Recently, we had Alfa pitting […]
Man vs MiTo: Alfa MiTo races Iwan Thomas through London
Alfa Romeo has staged a race between an Alfa MiTo and athlete Iwan Thomas over a 3.8 mile London course to promote UK Athletics. Alfa Romeo sponsors UK Athletics (UKA) by divvying up cars to high-profile athletes. Good for the athletes; good for Alfa. So with the domestic athletics season upon us someone at Alfa […]
Alfa MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde gets a tweak and a tickle
Alfa Romeo give the 2011 Alfa MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde cosmetic tweaks, with new wheels, new toys and bits of carbon fibre. The Alfa MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde already sits at the top of the very appealing MiTo range, but that hasn’t stopped Alfa spreading more Alfa goodness across its bows for the new 2011 model year cars. Don’t get too […]
Alfa Romeo MiTo range gets a revamp for 2011
Romeo has rationalised the Alfa MiTo range for 2011, cutting it down from 17 versions to nine and adding three new engines. The proper Alfa nutters aren’t overly fond of the MiTo. They don’t see it as a real Alfa, perhaps because it doesn’t break down every five minutes and it’s front wheel drive. We’re […]
Alfa Romeo MiTo Sprint launches
Alfa Romeo reveals the limited edition Alfa MiTo Sprint in a choice of Red, White or Blue. It celebrates Alfa’s ongoing support for UK Athletics (UKA). Today we have yet another limited edition – the Alfa Romeo MiTo Sprint – which Alfa has ostensibly put together to celebrate its ongoing support of UK Athletics. Which […]
Alfa Romeo MiTo Turismo Sport launched
Alfa Romeo has launched a limited edition MiTo – the Alfa MiTo Turismo Sport – with cosmetic tweaks, choice of paint jobs and a half decent finance offer. Don’t get barkingly excited, this isn’t a barn-storming MiTo in the mould of the much anticipated – but not yet materialised – MiTo GTA. It is in fact a Limited Edition Alfa […]