Alfa Romeo

Jul 3 2010

Alfa Romeo planning to reach 500,000 annual sales by 2014

Alfa Romeo planning to reach 500,000 annual sales by 2014

The Alfa Romeo brand is a tough one to pin down… or perhaps it’s parent company Fiat that’s elusive, or maybe just CEO Sergio Marchionne that refuses to be a fixed target. New Alfa-Abarth-Maserati CEO Harald Wester has said that Alfa’s long-term sales target is 500,000 vehicles by 2014. That’s a mountainous 400,000-unit increase over 2009 sales, yet the route to the peak of that mountain isn’t any clearer than it was in January when Alfa wasn’t coming to the U.S., except that Alfa finally has “the right conditions, the right products and the right synergies to get there,” according to Wester.

[Source: Automotive News – Sub. Req'd]

Oct 9 2009

Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione proves beauty is only skin deep

Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione proves beauty is only skin deep

Imagine you’re a male (Autoblog surveys say most of you are, so this shouldn’t be hard). You’ve been invited to the Playboy Mansion for their annual Halloween party. You arrive, grab a flute of bubbly, get introduced to the crusty remains of Hugh Heffner and after a few minutes lay eyes on the most beautiful specimen of redheaded femininity the world has ever seen.

Q Full article, Source: AutoBlog

Sep 17 2009

Frankfurt 2009: Alfa Romeo MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde packs Fiat’s lucky charm

Frankfurt 2009: Alfa Romeo MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde packs Fiats lucky charm

We usually close our posts by inviting you to check out our images, but this time we’re starting here: Go into the gallery and have a look at the little green clover logo adorning the front fender of the new Alfa MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde. You’ll notice that the classic Alfa performance badge has received a slightly modern update, courtesy of some techy carbon fiber-style weave.

Q Full article, Source: AutoBlog

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