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Alfa Romeo 4C
Set to go on sale in 2013, but we should get to drive a prototype version this year. That's good news, because it means you have plenty of time to save up for it when it goes on sale. It promises 170kW in a 900kg car (the equivalent of Porsche 911 Carrera power-to-weight ratio) in a rear wheel drive, mid-engined car. That's going to be good. 0-100 in four and a half seconds, a reasonable price tag: one of the best Alfas ever?
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Our ten favourite Alfa concepts
As Alfa Romeo re-releases the 4C for Frankfurt, we’ve rustled up ten from its back catalogue
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Alfa Romeo 4C: now in silver
The Alfa Romeo 4C concept will be presented at the Frankfurt motor show in a new colour. A colour inspired by the Terminator...
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Geneva 2011: Alfa Romeo 4C
Baby mid-engined, two-seat junior Alfa sports car is kindle to your petrolhead fire
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Geneva 2011: Alfa 4C
Baby mid-engined, two-seat junior Alfa sports car is kindle to your petrolhead fire
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Aussie police fail
Sydney’s finest get a new weapon in the fight against hairy-chested crime. It is an Alfa Mito. Oh
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Zagato’s Alfa racer: a cut above
Italian design house releases teaser of Alfa 8C-based race car. We suspect it shall be magnificent
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Honest. If you're thinking of buying a Golf, put the Giulietta on your ‘to really consider quite seriously' list, if you don't mind waiting for an Australian release of course - which could be as late as November presently. It drives well - excellently, in fact - and has a fine range of turbocharged, direct injection engines. Interior space is much improved on the 147, refinement is good, build quality appears to be almost... German.
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Maybe it's just a visual thing: though the Giulietta isn't ugly by any means, but - if you'll excuse the rampant subjectivity - isn't Alfa's most elegant design of recent years. Maybe we're trying to eat our cake and have it: we spend years moaning about the flimsiness of Alfas, and then as soon as they build a solid, refined car, we moan that it's characterless. Either way, though the Giulietta caters brilliantly to the Golf/Focus market, maybe it's just a little too sober to grab unreformed petrolheads by the man-parts.
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Grip - even on the sodden Italian roads of our test drive - is impressive, and there's an almost organic quality to the steering that makes your A3 feel lifeless. It's great. Fun.
We drove the 125kW version of Alfa's 1.4-litre four-pot turbo petrol engine, featuring Fiat's clever new ‘MultiAir' variable-valve tech which, hopefully, will be in the engine lineup when the Giulietta makes its way to Oz. -
Spotted a ‘but' looming large on the horizon? Yeah, you're right. But let's leave the ‘but' to one side for a second, and talk about the Giulietta's underpinnings.
You're not looking at a Fiat Ritmo in a smarter suit. The Giulietta is the first car to get Fiat's boringly-named-but-thoroughly-excellent ‘Compact' platform, formed of lightweight, high-tensile steel to keep weight down. This means it's lightish and, with aluminium multi-link suspension at the rear, brilliantly supple on the road, striking a neat balance between comfort and agile handling. -
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