On the impossible mountain roads of Sicily, the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 became one of the great symbols of the Targa Florio. This is the story of Autodelta, Nino Vaccarella and the day Alfa Romeo defeated Porsche on home soil.
Mille Miglia: The Thousand Miles That Turned Italy Into a Racetrack ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Events There are mornings in the history of motor racing that seem impossible now. Not because the cars were faster than modern racing cars—they were…
Storia Alfa Romeo: la fabbrica del cuore sportivo La storia Alfa Romeo va dal Portello ad Arese, da Milano al mondo: uomini, macchine, vittorie, crisi e rinascite di una fabbrica che trasformò la velocità in identità italiana. Ci sono fabbriche…
Tazio Nuvolari belongs to the small group of athletes whose legend grew so large that statistics alone can no longer contain it. Born in Castel d’Ario, near Mantua, on 16 November 1892, he raced motorcycles and cars in an age…
The Practical Coupe with a Racing Engineer’s Balance\n\nReplacing a successful Alfa Romeo coupe is never an easy assignment because the old car’s owners tend to become historians, judges and prosecutors at the same time. In the early 1970s the Giulia-based…
The Coupe That Gave the Busso V6 a Perfect Stage\n\nIf an engine can become a celebrity, the Alfa Romeo Busso V6 is one of the strongest candidates. Designed under engineer Giuseppe Busso, the all-alloy V6 first appeared in the Alfa…
The Last Great Transaxle Sedan of the Old Alfa Romeo\n\nThe Alfa Romeo 75 arrived in 1985 with a name that looked backward and a personality that would soon become historically important. It was called 75 to celebrate the company’s seventy-fifth…
The Pininfarina Flagship That Carried Alfa into a New Era The Alfa Romeo 164 is a car of transition, and transition is rarely simple. It was developed while Alfa Romeo was still controlled by the Italian state, launched after the…
The Bertone Coupe That Defined Italian Sporting Elegance Some cars become classics because they are rare. The Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT became a classic because it was right. The proportions were right, the mechanical recipe was right, the timing…
The Expo Dream That Became a V8 Grand Tourer The Alfa Romeo Montreal began with an almost impossible brief. For Expo 67 in Montreal, the organizers asked Alfa Romeo to provide a car representing the highest aspiration of modern man…