Alfa Romeo is celebrating it's 100th birthday this June and is one of the featured brands at The Goodwood Festival of Speed this year. Also happening later this summer is the UK launch of the new Alfa Romeo Giulietta which is the replacement for the 147.
I was lucky enough to get an invite to the preview of the new car and so hot-footed it off to Alfa last week
The car on show was a left hand drive, Ghiaccio White, pre-production example of the top of the range model the 1750 TBI 235BHP Cloverleaf, to keep with the Italian-ness of the car I prefer the word Quadrifoglio
It just wouldn't be an Alfa Romeo without that grille
The DNA switch just in front of the gear lever that offers two different regimes that vary steering effort, accelerator response, electronic stability intervention and settings for the Q2 electronic differential. This really is a drivers car and I can't to get a test drive in one
Quadrifoglio Verde
Gotta love those brake callipers especially with those heavenly large aperture wheels
So it's not just the Top Gear Presenters that like Alfa's, even Autocar Magazine had many good things to say about the new Giulietta - Autocar had a first test drive back in April Autocar First Drive - 1.4 TB Multiair
I'm looking forward to my local dealer getting their 1st demonstrator cars in July so that I can get behind the wheel and also get some shots of the car out on the open road - watch this space
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