Posts Tagged ‘alfa romeo’

There’s something about Alfa Romeos that inspire a strange sense of pride in their owners. While the Italian manufacturer was once a bit of a marmite-like quality amongst dealers it’s really climbing in terms of popularity and car sales lately. Especially with the likes of the new MiTo taking it to a previously un-tapped market.
It’s [...]

It never fails to amaze me what they’ll declare it National Day of or National Week of. There’s been some real stupid ones and some that may have had their heart in the right place but not so well-thought out.

Next week is, for some reason, National Oil Check Week. Having spent many years with cars [...]

It’s looking to be a fantastic year if you happen to be the CEO of a certain Italian auto-company that’s about to own even more car companies. One of Fiat’s existing brands – Alfa Romeo has shown figures that go completely against the trend of current auto sales figures.
In a UK market that’s 28.5% down on [...]

I get the impression now that board meetings at Fiat are starting to resemble a Pinky and the Brain cartoon with CEO Sergio Marchionne uttering the famous words “try to take over the world!”
In motoring terms, Monday could see them get a whole lot closer as Machionne is set to meet German economic and foreign [...]

Finally, some footage of the the beefed-up MiTo:

 
This is the first official footage of the new Alfa Romeo MiTo GTA, with the Italian car maker using the beauty of Valencia, the historical motoring pedigree of the Giulia GTA and what looks like some awesome handling to showcase what is sure to [...]

Every once in a while someone will bring in a dvd to the office that’ll get put on the big screen in the corner of the office. Something that can play in the background as a change to the corporate vids and recently there was the latest dvd by a certain Top Gear presenter and [...]