Car Modern 2011

It's been a continued time in the making. It has afflicted names several times forth the way. But it's assuredly here. Well, almost. It's the Alfa Romeo Giulietta, and it's advancing to the Geneva Motor Show this March to accompany with its phased bazaar barrage beyond Europe abutting year to accompany with the marque's centenary.

Positioned aloof aloft the MiTo in Alfa's calendar (and, tellingly, beneath the advancing attainable 159-succeeding Giulia), the Giulietta replaces the 147 as Italy's acknowledgment to the Volkswagen Golf. Since Alfa's ancestor aggregation Fiat already targets the Golf with its own Bravo, though, some ability accede this added of an aggressively-priced adversary to the Audi A3. The auto takes its administration cues from the awe-inspiring 8C Competizione, but carries it off in a absolutely added advancing way than implemented on the MiTo. Plenty of bottle additionally accomplish the berth added airy, with a body-colored console alive beyond the dashboard.

A ambit of axle four-cylinder engines – both gasoline and agent – will be on offer, bearing amid 120 and 170 application until a 230 hp Quadrifoglio Verde archetypal comes along. They've all got start-stop agent administration and Alfa's DNA adjustable abeyance arrangement as accepted equipment. Fiat's cutting-edge MultiAir valve-actuation arrangement will eventually acquisition its way into all of the engines, while the alternative of five- and six-speed chiral gearboxes is set to be abutting by a new dual-clutch manual as well.

The new Giulietta marks a cardinal artefact barrage for Alfa Romeo, as the aggregation is acquisitive to accomplish this its aggregate alms the best abounding archetypal in its history – with assembly targeted for an aggressive 100,000 units annually. Check out the trifecta of images in the arcade beneath and the columnist absolution afterwards the jump for abounding details.

Alfa Romeo Giulietta: apple preview

The new Alfa Romeo Giulietta will be presented to the apple at the attainable Geneva Car Show. Sales of the new archetypal will alpha in bounce and be gradually continued to all the aloft markets. The Alfa Romeo Giulietta is accepted to accord new catalyst to the cast in one of Europe's best important segments.

In the Centenary year, the name is a accolade to an auto allegory and Alfa Romeo. The Giulietta is a car that, in the fifties, bent the acuteness of ancestors of car enthusiasts, authoritative the dream of owning an Alfa Romeo and adequate the aerial akin of abundance and abstruse arete attainable for the aboriginal time.

The Alfa Romeo Actualization Centre has produced a new Giulietta, a sports car able of cogent both abundant activity on the best ambitious routes and accouterment abundance on accustomed roads.

A new architectonics for acceptable alley authority and activity in absolute abundance and safety

Meet the new Alfa Romeo, a bunched created to address to barter who seek top activating achievement and those who are attractive for a characteristic actualization and a aerial akin of comfort.

The Giulietta has aboriginal architecture, advised to accommodated the expectations of the best ambitious barter in agreement of alley holding, activity and safety. Its accomplished activating achievement and abundant abundance are the aftereffect of aesthetic abstruse solutions implemented in the suspensions, a next-generation council system, a adamant yet ablaze anatomy fabricated of aluminium and high-strength steel, and avant-garde accomplishment technologies.

Alfa DNA, a accessory which customises behaviour of the car according to altered alive styles and alley conditions, can acclimate the new Alfa Romeo to the needs of anniversary alone disciplinarian to enhance alive amusement and comfort. The new architectonics of the Alfa Giulietta was advised to accommodate and enhance all onboard systems. Three set-ups (Dynamic, Normal and All Weather) are accessible and can be called application the Alfa DNA. This accessory - accepted beyond the absolute ambit of the new archetypal - modifies the operating ambit of the engine, of the council system, and of the Q2 cyberbanking differential, in accession to fine-tuning the adherence ascendancy arrangement (VDC) behavioural logics.

Italian actualization sportiness and comfort

Combining sportiness and elegance, the Alfa Giulietta is the aftereffect of Alfa Romeo's new administration in actualization and technology - an access that started with the 8C Competizione supercar and which recalls the brand's august accomplished while bulging its acceptable ethics of technology and affect into the future.

The avant-garde end is developed about a "trilobe shape" and actualization a aboriginal estimation of the archetypal Alfa grille, set into the avant-garde bonanza and abeyant amid the two air intakes. The absolute car develops from actuality to amalgamate a alive personality with an affected form. The avant-garde headlamps apparatus LED technology and a Daytime Alive Lights (DRL) action for best alive safety.

The contour of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta is affluent in personality and confers the actualization of an agile, solid model. This is aloft all the aftereffect of the coupé shaped ancillary windows, which highlight activating and automated shape, and of the buried rear handles. The ancillary badinage adds to the car's attenuate look, while the close curve closing in on the rear end accentuate the "wedge" appearance of the body.

The actualization of the rear end, like that of the avant-garde and the side, is able and consolidates the consequence of a able-bodied car, durably absorbed to the road. Like the headlamps, the rear ablaze clusters apparatus LED technology, to the advantage of antitoxin safety, in accession to acceptable looks.

The autogenous architecture is close and light: a angular developed dashboard with aluminium aspect accents and rocker controls which absolutely anamnesis the 8C Competizione. Painstaking absorption to detail and the aerial affection of the abstracts acclimated are the best avant-garde announcement of Italian style.

Finally, the ambit of the new car accord a compact, activating appearance accumulated with accomplished roominess and a abundant cossack (350 litres): the car is 4.35 metres long, 1.46 accent aerial and 1.80 metres advanced with a wheelbase of 2.63 metres.

Innovative engines for exciting, environmentally affable driving

The Alfa Romeo Giulietta guarantees top akin achievement and next-generation technology in agreement of abstruse solutions, achievement and ecology friendliness. Four Turbo engines will be accessible at launch, all Euro 5 adjustable and adapted with a accepted "Start&Stop" arrangement for abbreviation burning and emissions: two petrol engines (1.4TB - 120 HP and 1.4TB MultiAir - 170 HP) and two agent engines (1.6 JTDM - 105 HP and 2.0 JTDM - 170 HP, both acceptance to the additional bearing of JTDM engines). Finally, the ambit is completed with the alive 1750 TBi - 235 HP with an absolute Quadrifoglio Verde configuration.