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  1. We can see a 75 at the back of the first picture, with a side strip at the bottom of the body. I just can guess but it was probably in 1982-1983. Again I'm guessing but in that period they could only adopt the design of 156 to the new T4 platform. I think the proposal from Pininfarina was not ready yet.
  2. His source is Alfabb, where Paolo posted pictures and the info about the car. https://www.alfabb.com/threads/alfa-164-the-genesis.204144/
  3. Paolo, the first 3 photos show the static car in the same position, look at he angle of the front wheels, it's the same. At the last two photos the front wheels were straight, but the position of the car on the road looks the same as the previous pictures. To me the car looks static
  4. I think it is 154, the front overhang is obviously from the front wheel drive car. And the engine line is very low, following the low height of boxer architecture and sub-horizontal placement of L4. Thank you Paolo!
  5. The grey 147 GTA reminds me the 147 Castagna LE made for Lapo Elkann
  6. The text below the photo: The moment of work in the ItalDesign studio, April 1990. The lead body designer - Chieso (i might be wrong with the translation of the last name), Margarita (Giugiaro's executive assistant), Project manager - Antonello, M. Demidovcev, S. Sinelnikov, G, Grabor From page 68 From page 65: The story of A-93 starts here and finishes at the page 70 https://www.rulit.me/books/vysokoj-mysli-plamen-chast-tretya-read-251440-64.html
  7. Paolo, just my 2 cents... My thoughts How could IDeA present the complete design (1:1 model) of 155 in a such short period of time (February-March 1987)? I think the design of 155 was almost the same as 434 by IDeA. The wheel base of 434 was 2600mm (Tipo 3 - 2540), the front overhang 900 (Tipo 3 - 960), the rear overhang 850mm (Tipo 3 - 943). Probably the task of De Silva was to work with FIAT/IDeA and Alfa and adopt the 434 design to Tipo 3 platform? And even in the Chirico book the shape of the 433-434 at the drawings is very similar to 155 and to the photos posted above P.S. Finmeccanica announced that FIAT won over Ford on November 6, 1986 De Silva had the interview with Eugenio Alzati (CEO of Alfa Romeo) in the Autumn of 1986 (probably late October?) De Silva officially became the Manager of Centro Stile on December 1, 1986 FIAT "bought" Alfa Romeo on December 31, 1986
  8. Paolo, we know that Busso dreamed about FWD, the 152, which eventually became 433/434. The AR management obviously wanted Tipo 2/3! This is the strategic plan from 1980 that was accepted by IRI. Starting from 1983 all Alfa Nord models (except Alfa 6) supposed to have the 152 Front Wheel Drive platform, which later became the 433/434 - single platform for the Nord and Sud models.
  9. Paolo, I think they had 2 different types of V8 mules. The first one was SW type and the second was a Coupe type
  10. To be honest I think during the backstage they had divide cars by the projects to avoid any confusion, or provide project codes in the slides. It is 105.68 by Centro Stile. Also at the backstage the Nuova SS project (105.55) was mentioned as well. Bertone proposed 2 variants of the design 1. Future Montreal 2. SS Testudo
  11. This is the car from the Lopresto collection, 105.68 by Giugiaro One of the 105.64 with 4 cyl engine is still alive
  12. Regarding Alfetta 2 porte This model appeared in production plans in December of 1971. The internal codings of Berlina 2000 (2 porte) Sport were 116.16 (LHD) and 116.17 (RHD) Weight - 1050 kg, And just for fun, the planned model line for 1972-1975
  13. The cars are from pre Alfasud era. The small berlina completely changed production plans of AR, the model/engine gamma was pushed one step up. It is because of the Alfasud the AR management decided to create V6 (2.2 and 2.5), to move V8 from 2.2 to 2.6 and create 2.0 L4. We are looking at three different projects here: 1. 1750-1900 Coupe 4 posti (105.68) The proposal that Paolo posted is from Centro Stile. It supposed to be a big 4 seater coupe (2510mm wheelbase) one step above Giulia GT. This was planned for 1971 (1750) and 1972 (1900) but was cancelled in 1969. At this point AR decided to continue production of Giulia GT (1300 and 1750), add new 1950cc engine at the end of 1970. The plan was to stop manufacturing of Giulia GT in 1972 and substitute it by 116 Coupe This one was done by Ital Design 2. Early proposal of 116 Coupe by Ital Design. The 116 Coupe was planned with 1750 and 1950 engines. 1360cc engine was designed for 116 Berlina (Alfetta) only. 3. I am not sure if it was a proposal for 116 Berlina. Dependson the year of the proposal. In 1967-1968 the 118 model was planned with 1900-2000 engine. Alfetta was planned as direct replacement of Giulia with 1360-1600 engines.
  14. Guys, in my province, Alberta, Canada, stationary speed cameras are prohibited by the provincial government. They are considered a "cash cows". Now we have speed cameras on the special marked cars in the designated zones only. But they are prohibited at ring roads, in the zones with a speed limit lower than 50 km/h, etc. The municipalities every year should provide a proof that such cameras increase the safety. The amount of cameras is limited, municipalities can't install new cameras or upgrade equipment. This is how our cameras look like, they are visible to everyone. Drivers should be aware of them Remember, till early 70s speed limits on the highways were not existed. They were implemented not because of the safety but to limit fuel consumption during the oil crisis period. In one of the QR's from 60s was a short article that speed limits in the cities increased incidents rate and traffic congestions. Speed doesn't kill!
  15. I think Mitsubishi worked very closely with Aldo Sessano, and Colt probably was created by him
  16. And it's happened mostly because of the sanctions to Russia. Chinese cars now represents 51.4% of the Russian market. All EU/Japanese/South Korean manufacturers closed factories in Russia, and Russian government opened the market to Chinese companies. Among all cars imported to Russia (new and second hand), Chinese cars represent 38.6%, in 4 quarter of 2023 - 46%. By approximate calculations in 2023 Russia imported about 550-600k cars (about 120k in 2022) from China (not including trucks and buses).
  17. As I understand the Brezza project has not been pushed to the advanced stage and was cancelled at the stage of the prototype development. I don't think that the serial car could be at this stage. I think Brezza supposed to be RWD but the red mock up - FWD. The overall design of the red mockup makes me think about the project that Zbigniew Maurer described in the article. And I think it also related to 147 Spider Zagato https://www.speedholics.com/post/against-all-odds-alfa-romeo-new-spider-duetto-project-938
  18. The grey car is Brezza, designed by Luca Capuano. Below is the final design of the car
  19. I would say it was done in late 60s, probably 68-69. It has some design similarities with Alfa 118 proposal from Pininfarina. Also I think by the proportions we can see that the car supposed to be RWD. Probably Flaminia based. For some reason Ghia proposed Flaminia based coupe (Lancia Marcia) in 1969. Probably Lancia wanted develop the Flaminia platform but then switched to FWD project (Gamma)
  20. It was closed because of the sanctions to South Africa (apartheid) Before that AR produced there FIAT pick-up and had an agreement with Daihatsu
  21. Another interesting example of the modern rarity. I've seen this car in the fall of 2022. Dodge Ram SRT-10 MY05 with a regular cab. It has a V10 engine from Viper (8.3l, 500HP, 248 km/h, 0-60mph in 4.9 sec) According to wiki only 1808 of MY'05 with regular cab were made.
  22. Until February 1973 Alfa Romeo had different plans for the model line compared with range we know. AR wanted to have a sporty version of the Alfa 119 with the planned start of production in 1975. Sportiva 119 Coupe supposed to have V6 (2.2 and 2.5 - 1180kg, price in Italy 3.270.000, production plan for 1975 - 21200 cars), and V8 (2.6 and 3.0 - 1250kg, price in Italy 5.730.000, production plan for 1975 - 3800 cars). The V8 3.0 was described in the Montreal backstage, 84x67.8, 3006cc. If the specific power was equal to the 2.6, the maximum power would be 230 hp at 6500 rpm. So the 119 Coupe with V8 3.0 would have 184 hp/t or 5.43kg/hp But in November 1973 the V8 engines were excluded from the production plan and the model range became the same as we know (expect the Spider which supposed to be ended the production in 1977, and new Spider should be built on the Alfasud platform) Regarding V6. All production delays with Alfa 6 and V6 became evident in 1971. Because of the consistent problems with unions the production plans were delayed for 2 years! The production of 119 was moved from the beginning of 1973 to 1974. Because of it the equipment for V6 and new L4 116 engines manufacturing was purchased only at the end of the 1971. Moreover, after calculations OTO Melara refused production of the transmission parts of the 119 (the company management didn't want to invest in the production of the parts for the single customer (Alfa Romeo). They wanted to sell 50% to Alfa and 50% to the different customer) Now it is easy to say that the lacking of the powerful V6 was a missing opportunity but knowing the facts I can say that Alfa did everything right till 1979 but it is another story P.S. Below is the example of the perfect scenario, when the problems with the unions were not existent, Alfa Sud was in the plans and the market was growing 105.66 Coupe 3000 8V GTA Iniezione (with De Dion suspension)
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