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press release ita : http://www.media.maserati.com/it_IT/ww/release/4941 press release eng : http://www.maserati.com/maserati/en/en/index/levante/the-maserati-of-suvs.html

E per la coupè cattiva : Alfa Romeo LaPoliziaSincazza

Pensa che in alcuni stati (non mi ricordo quanti o quali) i motociclisti non hanno l'obbligo di indossare il casco...

La solita minestra... se non altro, stavolta la smentita ufficiale non lascia spazio ad interpretazioni ambigue. http://www.autoblog.com/2016/02/10/alfa-romeo-giulia-needs-help-fedeli/ Automotive News published a report last week saying two suppliers had insisted the Giulia, on the eve of production, didn't just fail one internal crash test, but failed the front-, side-, and rear-impact tests. A third supplier source told us the same thing. Alfa is denying it. It was due on sale in Europe late last year and was supposed to be here in the next month or two. But it wasn't, and it won't. It was to be headlined by a twin-turbo V6 that reportedly howled its way around the Nürburgring 14 seconds faster than the BMW M3 could manage. That second part is only true if you believe it's fair to compare a full lap in a standard BMW M3 with a favorable accumulation of sector times to a development prototype Giulia with 220 pounds stripped out of it and rolling on hand-cut racing slicks. No, me neither. A Promising Start The Giulia's all-new architecture was developed in just two years by a skunkworks of young engineers headed by Fiat's engineering prince, Philippe Krief, and (bafflingly) sited inside Maserati's headquarters complex in Modena, about three hours from Alfa Romeo's own Turin HQ. It was supposed to be flexible enough to offer rear- and all-wheel drive and to sit beneath eight new models in the next three years, and it was at the core of Sergio Marchionne's promise that Alfa would not just return to America in a blaze of glory, but sell 400,000 cars a year globally by 2018. There was to be the 3 Series-sized Giulia sedan, then an SUV of about the same footprint, then medium and large rear-drive sedans and a large SUV, a two-seat hard-core sports car, a convertible and a large four-seat GT coupe. It was even assumed that a version of this platform would underpin the next generation Chrysler 300 and Dodge Charger. To nobody's surprise, most of that isn't happening, for reasons that will soon become apparent. There will, instead, be just the Giulia and the X3/Q5-sized SUV. This revised plan was buried deep inside FCA's financial report from 2015 and its future forecast, hoping nobody would notice the retreat. That such critical product information was a throwaway line in a financial report tells you something of Marchionne's priorities as a car company CEO. The Return of the Prince Last week, we heard that Roberto Fedeli was returning to FCA as the chief of engineering of both Alfa Romeo and Maserati. And, still unconfirmed by FCA after we requested information last week, that Krief has gone. There were those who tried to say, privately, that there was no connection between the movements of the two engineers. There are, of course. Two sources told me Krief had left last Tuesday, before Fedeli was announced on Thursday. Now, you don't hire a man of Fedeli's stature away from a 16-month stint at the FIZ, BMW's technical center in Munich, on two day's notice. And Krief, after years of fiddling around the edges to update old architectures for new bodyshells, was unlikely to walk away just as he'd almost finished the all-new, Alfa-rebirthing architecture that would be his legacy. Fedeli was the chief engineer at Ferrari and had a 26-year stint at the most Machiavellian car company there is. He's a man with a track record of delivering excellence wrapped in sculpture and bookended by inconveniently sited number plates. In the 458 Speciale, he engineered a car as close to perfection as has ever been built. He got the fearsomely complex FF to work. He pushed Ferrari back to turbochargers. In short, he knows stuff. He will slot in easily at Alfa and at Maserati, which is important given that the two are now inextricably linked. He knows the people, the towns, the engineers, the brands, even where you get the good gelati in Modena (Slurp, on Viale Trento Trieste, by the way). The bottom line is that while Fedeli has been brought in to bolster both brands in the long term; in the short term his mission is to rescue the Giulia program. The Prognosis For Giulia The Giulia is said by development engineering sources to have handling issues, which they say stem in part from Krief's belief in the Balocco test-track school of handling – Alfa's proving ground near Turin. The philosophy, in short, says pointy feels fast and that's good. But it isn't. Pointy feels nervous and unstable and that's not always good. If the Giulia's handling isn't winning friends, even among the test drivers, then Fedeli is the right man in the right place at the right time. To save time (and to capitalize on a great idea), the Giulia uses the same four-link rear suspension concept and engineering principals as the Ferrari F430. From what sources tell us, however, it just doesn't do it all that convincingly. If anybody can turn that around, and quickly, it'll be Fedeli. If the Giulia doesn't pass its crash tests internally, it will have to do substantial remedial work to pass independent tests. If the Giulia doesn't pass its crash tests internally, it will have to do substantial remedial work to pass independent tests. That's do-able, but usually adds weight, cost and time – and sometimes compromises some things you'd rather not compromise. In the Giulia's case, its trunk loading space is already briefcase-tiny, so good luck with that. (Alfa let people test the trunk's operation at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, but not at the LA show in November.) Fedeli will have one inescapable truth to confront at Alfa Romeo/Maserati that he never faced at Ferrari or BMW: It seems to be almost impossible for anybody to walk out of Marchionne's office with approval for class-leading cars or new developments. Alfa Isn't Fiat Chrysler Automotive's Only Headache In the last decade, the European side of FCA turned the wonderfully innovative, culturally-rich Lancia into the Dead Man Walking of the European car industry, thanks to several small car duds. It delivered a Maserati Quattroporte with the V8 that New Englanders love, but incredibly without the all-wheel drive New Englanders need (it's only available with the V6). And it delivered both the Ghibli and Quattroporte without many of the electronic assistance systems the Germans have made the norm. The Levante SUV has also been dogged by development delays. Planned to be on sale midway through last year, it will now hit showrooms in the northern hemisphere this summer at the earliest and should be officially unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show. And then the Giulia arrives as the first proper new Alfa Romeo architecture in a decade, but the engineering team isn't given enough time or enough resources. Any automaker, even Fedeli's former employer BMW, would balk at a development timeline of just two years. Looking from the outside, it looks as though: a) the engineers either can't pitch or don't know how to pitch important projects to Marchionne; the money isn't there; c) the actual development of cars is an inconvenient distraction to a CEO playing a high-finance game; or d) a combination of all of them. For sure, Fedeli is the best man for the job and will fix a lot of problems quickly. But in the long term, no engineering boss can deliver Audi/BMW/Mercedes-Benz-beating cars on a playing field as uneven as the one at FCA.

modalità alfista talebano ON: e infatti è uscita nammerda !!1! Non è prevista ADESSO, ma non vuol dire che non possa arrivare più avanti. Anche in passato la variante sw è arrivata 1 o 2 anni dopo la berlina.

Si vabbè, se sto analfabeta è addirittura un progettista, allora io sono Elvis Presley...

SGOOP: l'alfa romeo, per tagliare i costi, costruisce la giulia con fibbra di cabbonio proveniente da chernobyl. interrogato sulla questione, marchionne ha risposto "2 giorni prima che partisse la produzione, ho mandato un sms a quelli della trabant, chiedendogli se gli avanzava del duroplast. purtroppo l'avevano finito, così siamo dovuti ricorrere al piano b".

Fiat 600 Multipla, carrozzeria Fissore (altre foto qui : http://www.autobelle.it/annunci/annuncio.php?gb_id=142097 ) Alfa Romeo F12, carrozzeria Grazia, di proprietà dell'Alfa Blue Team. Alfa Romeo Romeo, carrozzeria Introzzi

Ho letto che era in vendita, ma aveva bisogno di un restauro completo... e ahimé credo siano in pochi quelli disposti a restaurare un carro funebre. Meglio così : non mi pare il caso di fargli una foto mentre è "in servizio". Cambiando discorso, ecco una Chevrolet Impala del '59, anche se la targa risale al '69. fonte : http://catorcibus.blogspot.it/2010/04/la-saga-di-pontenure-7-il-caro-estinto.html

Non so se sia già stato detto, ma nel pdf dei risultati finanziari del 2015 dicono " Available in dealerships from Q2 ‘16", cioè disponibile nelle concessionarie tra aprile e giugno.

La conferenza per intero : http://edge.media-server.com/m/p/nsjqodm9 per registrarvi potete tranquillamente inserire dati fasulli.

OT: In tempi recenti, un motore Guzzi è finito anche sotto il cofano di una 600 (o almeno di ciò che ne resta, dopo vent'anni di abbandono all'aperto) : fonte : http://blog.caranddriver.com/theres-nothing-wrong-with-the-fiat-600-that-a-moto-guzzi-v-twin-cant-fix-lemons-insanity/ Tra l'altro, ho scoperto che anche DeTomaso aveva testato una Mini col motore Guzzi. fine OT

Una proposta scartata per la 600, con motore bicilindrico a V.

Già mi immagino la reazione dei talebani alla presentazione della nuova SierraVeloce. Poi, una ventina d'anni più tardi: "Eh, ma non era poi neanche tanto male, sapete ? Di sicuro 100 volte meglio della Focussetta."

Questo video segue tutta la gestazione della 124: dalla galleria del vento, passando per la costruzione dei prototipi e successivo collaudo su strada e in pista, prove di durata, tenuta su strada e ribaltamento, fino all'allestimento delle linee di montaggio e dei relativi macchinari, tra cui una pressa Innocenti. Mentre per chi volesse approfondire l'accordo con i sovietici :

E dovevi tirar su una discussione di 6 anni fa per farcelo sapere ?

Dall'articolo di autoblog che ho postato:

Appunto. Aggiungo anche che la classifica è il risultato di un sondaggio, quindi non mi pare il caso di farne un dramma.

Ha un Busso (elaborato) e Carlo Chiti ha contribuito allo sviluppo. Magari vogliono dedicargli una mostra temporanea, ospitando anche auto di altri marchi, come fa il museo Ferrari (quello nuovo intendo)

http://www.auto.it/2016/01/18/audi-accordo-fca-per-i-diritti-q2-q4/54747/ Secondo voi quale marchio hanno avuto in cambio ? L'autore di questo articolo butta la alcune ipotesi, di cui l'unica vagamente sensata è Bora (magari da usare sull'Alfieri di serie).