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 4C beats Aston Martin DBS (AM310) to Villa D’Este prize
The Alfa Romeo 4C has beaten the Aston Martin Project AM310 (new AM DBS) to the prize for best concept at Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este. As you can’t have failed to notice, this last weekend was the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, an elegant and delightful car event on the shores of Lake Como in Italy. And the […]
Alfa Romeo & Mazda to build new roadster
Alfa Romeo and Fiat have signed an agreement to build a new new RWD roadster based on the next generation Mazda MX-5 platform. Sergio Marchionne is a big believer that the only way to survive as a mainstream car maker is to be as big as possible and share development costs whenever you can. Which explains – […]
Alfa Romeo Giulietta 2.0 JTDm 140 Review
We’ve had the mid-range diesel Giulietta in for review – the Alfa Romeo Giulietta 2.0 JTDm 140 diesel in Lusso spec. Can a diesel Giulietta offer the Alfa experience? Alfa Romeo Giulietta Review Last year we had the Alfa Romeo Giulietta with the 168bhp petrol in for review and we loved it. It was fluid and responsive, sweet […]
Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera Disco Volante – a new take on the Alfa 8C
Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera Disco Volante is a homage to the 1952 Alfa Romeo Disco Volante, based on the Alfa 8C and heading to Geneva. The Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera Disco Volante – which is quite a mouthful – is a concept put together by Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera for this year’s Geneva Motor Show and is a modern take on […]
Alfa Romeo 4C arriving in 2013
The Alfa Romeo 4C – a compact, mid-engined RWD sports car – teased by Alfa at Geneva & Frankfurt – will arrive in 2013. The Alfa Romeo 4C holds a lot of promise as a small mid-engined and very light sports car. And Alfa Romeo has seemed serious about their baby 8C, turning up at both […]
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 Romeo Giulietta gets ALFA TCT semi-automatic ‘box
Alfa Romeo has announced that the Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1.4 TB MultiAir 170 bhp and 2.0 JTDM-2 170 bhp can be specified with the ALFA TCT semi-auto ‘box. We really like the Alfa Romeo Giulietta. In a world where many cars look the same, the Giulietta has style and panache. And it’s a decent drive, which will now be improved […]