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Alfa Romeo Alfasud TI 1.3 - a journey 35 years into the past

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Created on November 26, 2014

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - loves the curves

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - indicated fender flares

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - handy front-wheel drive car

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the dream of many new drivers 35 years ago

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - sporty on the road

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - a lot of fun, even after 35 years

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - four disc brakes were not a matter of course back then

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the design was by Giugiaro

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - very advanced designed passenger car

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - plenty of space for four people

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - fully functional

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - born for the country road

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - Twin headlights and front spoiler on the TI

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - no tailgate, only a trunk lid up to the rear window

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - white, as it was built in the south of Italy

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - crisp rear end

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the TI was only available as a two-door model

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the 1.3 TI was not sold in all countries

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the front engine was still in front of the front axle

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the mud flaps are contemporary accessories

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - they have become rarer than many a Ferrari

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - lots of plastic inside

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the ignition lock is on the left of the steering wheel

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - this is how sportiness was imagined in the seventies

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - two main and two additional instruments

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - easy to read main instruments

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - Speedometer up to 180 km/h, that's how much a TI ran in good conditions

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - beautifully drawn rev counter

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - nicely illuminated rev counter

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the red zone starts at 6250 rpm

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - Oil pressure and water temperature gauges

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - Indicator lights

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the gearshift with imitation wood finish

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - Fabric upholstery, surprisingly soft by today's standards

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the Alfa sign on the steering wheel is not original, but looks classy

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - longitudinally mounted boxer engine, far forward in the chassis

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the boxer engine takes up very little space

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the longitudinally mounted, short boxer engine

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - Nameplate

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - small Alfa radiator grille

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - Twin headlights in plastic housing

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - mounted indicators

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the typical Alfa grille must not be missing

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - Twin headlights promise sportiness

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - original steel wheels, it doesn't always have to be aluminum

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - Air intake for the interior ventilation

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - graceful door handles

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - Rear vent window

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - ti sign on the C-pillar

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - later versions had larger rear lights

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the plastic rear spoiler

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - the not particularly beautiful rear wing

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - Alfasud lettering

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - Alfa sign on rubber

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - spacious trunk, but no convertible interior

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - blessed be he ....

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti 1.3 (1979) - maybe the Alfasud lived longer because of this glue

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Corsa (1978) - sporty four-door version

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud TI Cup (1977) - Cup Alfasud on the exhibition stand in Turin in 1977

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti (1978) - first generation of the TI, note the rear spoiler, which is still designed as a spoiler lip here

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti (1976) - with sporty rear spoiler and more power

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Alfasud 1.3 TI (1977) - with the 75 hp engine, the saloon now reaches 160 km/h - International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt 1977

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti (1978) - Steering wheel and dashboard - all clocks in view

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud TI (1978) - in a particularly rare color

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti (1978) - the smart alloy wheels were optional extras

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti 1.3 (1978) - the rear spoiler was not aesthetically convincing

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti 1.5 (1979) - side view, right

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti (1978) - the sporty TI version was available with a 1.3 and 1.5-liter engine and featured two doors as well as front and rear spoilers

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud TI (1978) - as a 1.5-liter version

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti (1979) - Sketch of the front of the car

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti (1979) - Sketch dashboard

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti (1978) - Interior - Photo from the sales brochure

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti (1978) - cover picture of the sales brochure

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti 1.5 (1978) - recorded in 1982

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud TI 1.5 (1978) - Silhouette in the green

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti 1.5 (1979) - with contemporary rims from the accessories rack - photo from 1981

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Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti 1.5 (1979) - view of the interior - note the sports steering wheel and the inlay carpets - photo from 1981

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Summary

The Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti was one of the most popular sporty compact saloons of the 1970s. As a direct competitor to the Renault R5 Alpine and VW Golf GTI, it impressed customers with its spaciousness, its rev-happy engine and its excellent chassis. Only a few examples have survived the decades, which makes the encounter with an unwelded example from 1979 with just under 32,000 km on the clock all the more extraordinary. This report shows the "time machine" in many pictures and describes the special features of the model, supplemented with sales literature and audio examples.

This article contains the following chapters

Rarity in white
The natural enemy
A special feature
At the wheel again
Now valuable
Further information

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

It borders on the miraculous, the magical, or at least the chemically improbable. There it is in front of us, an Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti as it was 35 years ago, with just under 32,000 km on the clock, a sprightly and almost as good as new second-hand car. How is this possible? Was time travel invented after all? Is this Alfasud the incarnation of the time machine that Robert Zemeckis visualized in the film "Back to the Future" in the form of a DeLorean? Somewhere in the cockpit there would probably be a setting instrument on which November 2014 was typed in when the car left the year 1979 ... When was the last time you, dear reader, saw a white Alfa Romeo Alfasud ti? In the seventies, a German car magazine ordered an Alfasud test car in exactly this color so that rust could be detected more quickly. Rust, that insidious combination of iron oxides and water, was actually the Alfasud's worst enemy, because conceptually the car was far superior to the competition when it was first presented to the public in 1971.

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