Re: alfa news

[George Graves <gmgraves@domain.elided>]

on 5/20/02 12:55 PM, alfa-digest at owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 00:35:08 -0400
> From: Ryan Fellini <rfellini@domain.elided>
> Subject: alfa news
> 
> from luca ciferri,
> 
> "Executives said Alfa Romeo would add the sporty GTA to the 147 range by
> year-end.
> A new small coupe based on the 147, the Sprint, will be added next year
> when the
> entire Alfa range will be facelifted.
> 
> A new 156 will follow in late 2004 and a new 156 Sportwagon derivative is
> scheduled
> to arrive six months later.
> 
> In late 2004, Alfa also plans to introduce a limited production version of
> a new sports
> car. The new model will be derived from the Brera concept car shown by
> Italdesign-
> Giugiaro at the Geneva show in March.
> 
> In 2005, Alfa will launch a new Spider and a crossover model based on the
> Premium
> vehicle architecture Fiat is developing with Saab and General Motors."
> 
> So it appears that the US would most likely start off with the
> "157", "Spider" and "Brera", maybe followed by "157 Sportwagon",
> and "167".  I assuming that the "Brera" and "GTV" should be seperate
> products.  I'm hoping that we will still a reasonably priced sports-
> car out of Italy (ala Fiat Coupe` Turbo, Alfa GTV...), not a 'limited
> production' car that would be priced like a Boxter S...
> 
> Kind of worried about this "crossover" vehicle though.  Oh man...
> these are Detroit words...
> 
> Ryan
> ps. for Lancia-fans, it looks like the next Lancia Lybra will be a cousin
> of the new 2003 Saab 9-3.  not bad, very rigid frame...

Where did you see this and how recent is it? It was reported last week by
AutoWeek that Fiat has scraped this plan altogether after a disastrous
financial performance report. AutoWeek's European sources were quoted as
saying that the money just doesn't exist to develop any of these new
vehicles at Alfa.

George Graves
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