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Alfa romeo 159

Alfa romeo 159

Alfa romeo 159

The Alfa Romeo 159 was launched internationally at the Geneva Motor Show of 2005. This model was launched as a replacement for the popular 156 model. Following its success in the international market the car is expected to be launched in Indian market in 2010 through Fiat. The car has been designed to provide a classy vehicle to consumers looking for larger interior space.

Alfa romeo 159

Alfa romeo 159

The Alfa Romeo 159 review shows that the car has a 3179cc petrol engine and this can develop power of 260 bhp at 6000 rpm along with peak torque of 322 Nm at 4500 rpm. The length of the car is 4660 mm and its width is 1828mm while its height is 1417mm. The exterior design of the car is sporty and features elegant lines.The car can seat 5 individuals and the engine is mated with 6-speed manual transmission system. The gear box is quite responsive and shifting of the gears becomes easy. The car has power steering and front and rear disk brake system. The car has ground clearance of 150mm and the kerb weight of the car is 2000 kgs. The car has fuel tank limit of 70 litres.The engine of the car is extremely quiet even at high speeds. The suspension system of the car is designed to add to the comfort level of the car. The suspension is balanced and provides excellent handling and also ensures that potholes and other road disturbances are not felt. The suspension also adds to the stability of the car at high speeds.The mileage figures for the car on Indian roads are not known as yet.

Alfa romeo 159

Alfa romeo 159

The interiors of the car feature comfortable seats in high grade upholstery. The dashboard has aluminium inserts and metallic cover for centre console. The interiors are quite spacious and the trunk space is around 405 litres. The car has high quality audio system with 10 speakers. The car also has Blue&Me system which allows users to connect USB compatible device or Bluetooth to the car. The car has automatic climate control feature with three zones and cruise control as well.

Alfa romeo 159

Alfa romeo 159

The car comes equipped with several safety features and these include airbags, fog lamp and parking sensors. Other safety features include anti lock brake system, front driver as well as passenger airbags, knee airbags, side curtain airbags, seats belts with pretensioners as well as load limiters. The car also has anti lock brake system and electronic brake force distribution feature.

Alfa romeo 159

Alfa romeo 159

The car is expected to cost Rs 28 lakhs and it will be available in the Indian market in a single design variation.The colors in which the car will be available in Indian market are not known as yet.

Alfa romeo 159

 Alfa romeo 159

 Alfa romeo 159

 Alfa romeo 159

 Alfa romeo 159

Alfa romeo 159

Alfa romeo 156

Alfa romeo 156

Alfa romeo 156

The Alfa 156 was first conceived in 1993 as the successor to the Alfa 155. Two design houses, Ital design and Pininfarina, competed against Alfa’s own design house, the Centro Stile led by Walter de’Silva, to style the car. The in house design eventually came through, beautifully combining styling cues from the Alfetta, 1900, Giulietta, Giulia and the Nuvola. The car lost most of the styling cues from the last decade, only a slight trace of the straight lines of the Alfa 155 remains along the side of the car, being replaced by a much more curvaceous shape. An extremely nice touch is the hidden rear door handle, this and the chrome front door adds to the illusion that this is a sports coupe. The interior design has a very sporty character with options such as Momo steering wheel and Recaro seats being available, the dashboard and instruments have distinct echo’s of the Giulia GT and 1750 GTV of the late 1960s.

Alfa romeo 156

Alfa romeo 156

The floorpan is modified from the Alfa 155, which itself originally came from the Fiat Tipo. However, there is so little that remains and I would be very surprised to find any panels that could be transferred. The front suspension is a double wishbone set up with 4 degrees of castor and 6-7 degrees of king pin inclination which gives the car excellent grip, steering feel and precision whilst also almost eliminating torque steer. The rear suspension is McPhearson struts with unequal length links used to give some passive steering. The chassis also benefits from all round disk brakes with the Bosch 5.3 anti-lock braking system. Safety is also enhanced with dual air bags and Alfa’s fire prevention system.

Alfa romeo 156

The car was released on the 9th October 1997 at the Geneva Motor Show and was an instant success receiving the Car of the Year award in 1998. The Alfa 156 received 454 points ahead of the 2nd placed VW Golf, which received 188 points. As further testament to the success of Alfa Romeo’s new sports saloon, 40 out of the 56 strong panel of judges put it in 1st place. Alfa came out with the 1.8. 2.0 and 2.5 litre petrol engines and a 2.4 litre common rail diesel engine, the later engine was a major innovation as it was the worlds first common rail diesel engine. In 1999 Alfa Romeo also introduced another very interesting technical innovation, the Selespeed gear box, this is a computer controlled manual gear box that gives major performance and fuel economy advantages over an automatic gear box that uses a torque converter. In 2000 the sportwagon was introduced this filled a major gap in the Alfa Romeo range as there hadn’t been an estate produced since the days of the Alfa 33 and then, just as we thought things could not get any better, Alfa Romeo released the 3.2 litre V6 engined GTA at the Frankfurt Motor Show, what a car.

Alfa romeo 156

Alfa romeo 156

In April 2002 the Alfa 156 was face lifted; the car received fully colour coded bumpers and mirrors. Internally the dashboard received a new climate control system and a multi function information display, the steering wheel was also transferred from the Alfa 147. Technically there were also changes on the engine front, the 2.0l 16 v twin spark engine was replaced by the direct injection JTS unit. In 2003 the car had a second face lift and received a Brera inspired “face” and we got 2 new diesel engines the 1.9 and 2.4 Mjet units that both feature 4 valves per cylinder heads and are some of the most powerful diesel engines available. The Multijet system takes the idea of pilot injection squirting a tiny amount of fuel into the combustion chamber to prime it before the main ignition process takes place. In this instance, the main injection is then divided into 6 smaller injections, allowing smoother, more gradual combustion that utilises fuel more efficiently. The electronic control units therefore have to be astonishingly precise. Whereas before the time lag between injections was a relatively yawning 1,500 microseconds, the response time has been slashed to a 10th of that.

Alfa romeo 156

 Alfa romeo 156

 Alfa romeo 156

 Alfa romeo 156

 Alfa romeo 156

 Alfa romeo 156

Alfa romeo 156

Alfa romeo 147

Alfa romeo 147

I’m amazed that the Italians can produce such desirable cars when they can’t drive. Far too fast, right up the chuff of the car in front, and across the middle of the road in blind bends.I don’t believe the adage that says the red-blooded Italian temperament begets a certain type of car. Quite the opposite the Italian car inspires a certain type of driving, which is why the shaky national road sense is at its lowest ebb behind the wheel of the domestic product.I know, because I have been driving like an Italian, and all because I was driving the new Alfa 147. I love it. For a start, it’s a handsome brute, full of complex interpenetrations. Open the tailgate, for example, and the compound curves along its edges reveal that its designers were not compromised by a desire to be gentle with their press-tool suppliers. All topped off with a nose inspired by the 6C 2500 Villa d’Este of 1949 (it says in the press pack).

Alfa romeo 147

Alfa romeo 147

The 145 and 146. Two versions will be over here in February: the 120bhp 1.6-litre with manual change, and the 150bhp two-litre with Selespeed semi-auto transmission. We’re not getting Dr Diesel’s evil genius or the bog-standard 105bhp 1.6, and to start with we’re only having the three-door versions. By the middle of 2001 you’ll also be able to buy the two-litre with a normal five-speed ‘box and the five-door body, which will be, as a rival car magazine once famously put it, the same except that it will have two extra doors.We’ll dispense with the 1.6-litre first, which is nice enough but not a patch on the two-litre. With the bigger engine comes a 10mm reduction in ride height, stiffer damping rates, fatter and lower profile tyres and a different brake system.

Alfa romeo 147

Alfa romeo 147

In far too many cases this sort of thing serves only to spoil the perfectly good car existing lower down the range, but here they improve it dramatically, and with dire results for driving decorum.The two-litre corners noticeably flatter than the 1.6 yet without a penalty in ride comfort, which is firm but supple. My only complaint is a slight boominess to the road noise at certain speeds. I don’t know what those speeds were, but I think they were quite high.

Alfa romeo 147

Alfa romeo 147

More to the point, the two-litre car offers much better steering feel – very good steering feel, in fact, which is something to celebrate in an era when so many cars seem to be the work of video game programmers. What I know about handling could be written on the back of an Italian tax disc, if anyone actually had one, but I’m confident that the 147 is even better than the 156 (from which it is partly derived) through the curva pericolosa. But I’m still not entirely convinced by Selespeed. On a Fantasy Formula One level it’s wonderful and the way the engine is automatically ‘blipped’ during downchanges is a delight. Smooth upshifts, however, are tricky and require a whole new set of skills which I am now too old to acquire. I can’t help feeling that a paddle-shift like this would be better if the clutch were retained, it being a vital part of the interface ‘twixt man and machine.So I’d be tempted to wait for the two-litre manual, which will be a corking car. It looks great, the interior is rather special, the engine fizzes away maniacally and it goes like hell through the twisties.

Alfa romeo 147

 Alfa romeo 147

 Alfa romeo 147

Alfa romeo 147

 Alfa romeo 147

 Alfa romeo 147

 Alfa romeo 147