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Alfa Romeo is an automobile mark of the Fiat company. Their vehicles stand for sportyness and emotions and as "Italian" and "individually" are sold.
Numerous racer sequence and sporty sedans like the Giulia coined/shaped the call Alfa Romeos in and the 70's 60's as manufacturers of high-quality sport vehicles for everyone. The standard with all around disc brakes, and above all the engine with two obenliegenden cam shafts and the multiple carburetor plant set yardsticks, which by other manufacturers of this class (like BMW) only years later were taken over. However the price of a Giulia lay 1600 e.g. 1972 also over that of a comparable BMW 2002, and so the vehicle remained reserving outside of of Italy a visible fan municipality.
Into the 80ern the call of the mark, particularly by the inexpensive, suffered not in Milan (north models) separates in South Italies produced Alfasud. These had for the first time front wheel drive as well as a double-piston engine, were considered as sporty - in addition, particularly rust-susceptibly. Further there were problems with the processing. Nevertheless in the segment of the inexpensive sports cars new customers were won and many friends remained faithful for the mark also in this time. Engines and driving fun convinced and problems in quality generally met in this time many manufacturers. However Alfa in the upper middle class and upper class lost the connection at the Bavarian competitors and could also on the US market no operational readiness level reach.
After the assumption by Fiats in the year 1986 the problems in quality were concerned and repaired, however in connection with many Fiat parts in the following models. Therefore many Alfisti speak of 75 (starting from 1985 to the firm anniversary) as last genuine Alfa Romeo, although also the 164 (of which 1987 on the market came) was already planned, before Fiat bought up Alfa. The 164 however the first large was Alfa (from production "north") with front wheel drive, and its platform became common with Fiat (Croma), Lancia (topic) and Saab (9000) develops. By the example 155 one can discover those very close relationship to Fiats, is nevertheless almost identically constructed the 155 with the Fiat Tempra, although the classical Vierzylinder Alfa engines with two obenliegenden cam shafts were continued to use now and with TwinSpark. From the Alfa-33 successors 145 and 146 1997 the Alfa Boxer engines and one well-known since the Alfasud 1972 disappeared rather set with these models on the row four-cylinders as well as for the 2,0 l 16V-Modelle on Fiat engines. The V6-Motoren built since the Alfa 6 (1979) in different capacity versions (2.5l, 3.0l and 3.2l) since April 2005 by new V6-Direkteinspritzer developed together with GM are replaced to a large extent.
The traditional running color for Italy is red. "Alfa Rosso" (Alfa red) is unchanged and Alfa exclusive a red for decades is. Leaned against the Alfa red, which was rather red brownish before the Second World War, Enzo Ferrari took over the red color for its vehicles as former engine haven leaders Alfa Romeos. Nowadays that is Ferrari-red, which is brighter in the comparison to the Alfa red some nuances, more traditional due to the compromise-looser employments in the engine haven perhaps more well-known, however not.
By the independent Design department Alfa succeed in again and again developing independently of Fiats interesting cars with independent stylistic idiom.
Up-to-date the model pallet covers the Alfa 147 ("compact class"), the 159 (middle class), which the 156 replaced, as well as the 159 Sportwagon (combination version), the Crosswagon Q4 as area combination, the 166 (upper middle class), the GT on the basis 156) as well as since end of 2005 the Brera on the basis 159). Spider Cabrio will will be replaced to 2006 since appearance of the Brera any longer not built, it by a Brera Cabrio.
The 156 in the spring 2003 a Facelift had last received, in the summer 2003 likewise those in the meantime no longer built models GTV and Spider as well as in the autumn 2003 of the 166. The 2005 by the 159 introduced new face with 2x3 small headlights and large Scudetto (ital. for plaques/sign flax) are to likewise be used as new mark Design in the coming models.
There were to the 147 and 156 until 2005 as GTA version, which are characterised by special sportyness (6 cylinders, 250 HP) and appropriate "aggressive" appearance.
The automark Alfa developed 1906, when Alexandre Darracq created an automobile work in Portello close Milan as an autopioneer. Its licensed products, which it manufactured at first, did not work satisfactorily however and in such a way took over immediately businessmen from the Lombardei the stock majority at its work and created 1910 the Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili, briefly A.L.F.A, which literally translated "corporation Lombardi car factory" is called. Starting from 1911 the situation in Europe became dark and the export market broke in. Autoproduction yielded the arms production of the state. 1915 sold Darracq its remaining shares remained, the Banca Italiana di Sconto attained the stock majority and announced on 21 September 1915 ALFA to the bankruptcy. On 2 December 1915 the arms company Accomandita engineer Nicola Romeo & CO under line of engineer Nicola Romeo originating from Neapel took over the guidance of the enterprise. Therefore the second part of the label name Alfa Romeo comes.
Starting from 1919 again noble civilian vehicles were then produced. Slowly pointed themselves for Alfa Romeo of successes to racing (world champion 1925) and economics (several production points produced motor vehicles, locomotives, construction machines and ship and airplane engines), but the collapse of the stock market 1929 seemed the end for Alfa Romeo to mean. The enterprise could be received by an integration into the national Finmeccanica group as a S.A. Alfa Romeo (1934). Into the 1930er years built Alfa Romeo with a version of the 8C 2900 the fastest series car of the world (205 km/h). Into the 1950er years erstarkte Alfa by series-produced cars for the small man, for instance the Giulietta (1954) and the Giulia produced in the new work in Arese (1962). Later still promising vehicles (Spider, Alfetta or the Alfasud) followed, however adjusted themselves economic success not sufficiently, Alfa Romeo 1986 by the state enterprise to the private Fiat company were finally sold, which led Alfa Romeo first together with Lancia in the society Alfa Lancia Industriale S.p.A. This was finally transferred on the FIATS car S.p.A. Alfa Romeo is led since then as dependent "Businesses unit".
Encouraged by new financial and technical free spaces developed, aforementioned of 164 (1987), a number of new, responding and successful vehicles, for instance the Alfa 156 (car of the yearly 1998) and the Alfa 147 (car of the yearly 2001). In October 2004 the German Karl-Heinz calf skin, before 27 years with BMW, changed last for Rolls-Royces, into the chief armchair of Alfa Romeo. In the summer 2005 again positioned 159 as a successor 156 one introduced.
In the year 1930 Alfa Romeo presented a light truck, turned in addition, the building of heavy LKWs on basis of constructions. In the Second World War Alfa Romeo built above all truck for the Italian army and later also for the German armed forces. The production of commercial motor vehicles was resumed, even if the sales figures were never very high in the comparison to the competition here. In co-operation with Fiats and Saviem starting from the 1960er years different light truck models were developed. The production of heavy LKWs was terminated 1967. In Brazil the heavy trucks were built still to before few years under the Markemnnnamen a FNM. Later Alfa Romeo concentrated 20 years on the automotive manufacture.
A further support leg of the company was the Produktiobn of Obussen. In many cities of Italy and also partially world-wide Alfa Romeo Obusse drove, from which to approximately 1972 altogether three new model rows appeared.
In addition the company built for the 1930er years also for aircraft engines. In the Second World War it was particularly beside various smaller engines of the RA.1000 RC 41-I Monsone, a license version Daimler Benz railways 601, with it Italy possible became more efficient fighters to build.
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