{"id":87241,"date":"2021-12-22T08:29:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T08:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=87241"},"modified":"2022-01-03T06:52:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T06:52:33","slug":"50-years-of-alfa-romeo-alfasud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/50-years-of-alfa-romeo-alfasud\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of Alfa Romeo Alfasud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If anything about the Alfa Romeo Alfasud has lingered in the collective memory of Europeans, it is probably its poor resistance to corrosion. In German-speaking countries, the Italian compact car was said to be rusty right from the brochure. Allegedly, rust stains were even found on the vehicle registration document. But was the Alfasud really that bad or do these insinuations not do justice to the overall concept? Let’s form our own opinion. First fact: The Alfasud was Alfa Romeo’s first production car with front wheel drive. They had a small car prototype with this drive technology on its wheels in 1960 as the Tipo 103. However, it didn’t go into series production because the market at the time promised better sales results for mid-range models. Around ten years later, the company returned to this concept and developed a new compact car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fact number two is that the Alfasud was a very advanced vehicle when it made its world debut at the 1971 Turin Motor Show. Under the body, designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro in his newly founded company Italdesign, wasn’t only the aforementioned front-wheel drive. Alfa Romeo also used newly developed four-cylinder boxer engines. The first of these was a 1.2-liter engine with 46 kW\/63 hp. In the two-door ti introduced in 1973, output rose to 50 kW\/68 hp. In 1976, the displacement increased by 0.1 liters. This was later followed by a version with 1.5 liters and, in the sporty Sprint, one with 1.7 liters and up to 87 kW\/118 hp. The manual transmissions had four or five gears. To reduce the unsprung masses, the front disc brakes were moved far to the inside. The handbrake also acted on them. Drums operated at the rear.<\/p>\n\n\n

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