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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Alfa Romeo GT CloverleafPart of the Fiat Group since the mid eighties, the Italian Alfa Romeo Car Company was created in 1910 in Milan. Originally the Societa Anonima Italiana Darracq (SAID) company, the group was first founded in 1906 and was located in Naples. Behind the group was the French Alexandre Darracq firm, and Italian investors, with Alexandre Darracq later deciding to move the company to Milan, where a new eight thousand square yard factory was created to house the new automobile company. One of the Italian investors, the aristocrat Ugo Stella, decided to form the new A.L.A.F Company due to lagging sales of the Italian Darracq cars.
Falling to financial free fall after the war contracts had ended, Nicola Romeo parted with the company, leaving the government to intervene in the market place to save the manufacture. The company continued to make high end exotic cars for wealthy clientele. World War Two saw the factory bombed, shattering the company's finances, which resulted in Alfa Romeo in desperate times, unable to produce a company profit. The time for mass production of smaller and less luxurious cars was on the cards, seeing the introduction of the Giuliette series of cars.
Alfa Romeo is a name synonymous with top-notch Italian car manufacturing. Many of its cars have achieved iconic status, becoming popular in both the automotive industry and global pop culture. But of all the Alfa Romeo cars ever produced, one stands out as an icon everybody can recognize: The Spider.
The Alfa Romeo 156 started out as an unassuming compact executive car. But over the years, it has gone to many aesthetic and engineering changes, turning it into a very popular choice for Alfa fans. Combining retro and modern on the outside, and traditional Italian sports car stylings on the inside, the 156 is a choice for the sophisticated Alfa Romeo fan who wants to let out an inner craving for speed every once in a while.
Falling to financial free fall after the war contracts had ended, Nicola Romeo parted with the company, leaving the government to intervene in the market place to save the manufacture. The company continued to make high end exotic cars for wealthy clientele. World War Two saw the factory bombed, shattering the company's finances, which resulted in Alfa Romeo in desperate times, unable to produce a company profit. The time for mass production of smaller and less luxurious cars was on the cards, seeing the introduction of the Giuliette series of cars.
Alfa Romeo is a name synonymous with top-notch Italian car manufacturing. Many of its cars have achieved iconic status, becoming popular in both the automotive industry and global pop culture. But of all the Alfa Romeo cars ever produced, one stands out as an icon everybody can recognize: The Spider.
The Alfa Romeo 156 started out as an unassuming compact executive car. But over the years, it has gone to many aesthetic and engineering changes, turning it into a very popular choice for Alfa fans. Combining retro and modern on the outside, and traditional Italian sports car stylings on the inside, the 156 is a choice for the sophisticated Alfa Romeo fan who wants to let out an inner craving for speed every once in a while.
