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Sprinter in a road suit - Alfa Romeo Giulia 1600 TI (historical test)

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Created on July 11, 1962

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Hanno Parsifal

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1963) - twin headlights and lots of chrome at the front

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI 1600 (1962) on the cover of Hobby 24/1962

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1962) - Silhouette

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1962) - Gran Turismo for five people

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Alfa Romeo Giulia (1963) - powerful vehicle with a body designed more for practicality than beauty

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1963) - rear end was not considered beautiful

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1964) - four doors and plenty of sportiness

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1964) - a shape like no other

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1964) - functional and good-looking

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1964) - a typical Alfa Romeo front end

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1964) - rear view

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1964) - with the famous trunk lid

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1963) - a face that commands attention

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1962) - with the characteristic rear end

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1964) - Dashboard, gearshift on the steering wheel

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1964) - Steering wheel and dashboard

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1964) - Steering wheel and dashboard

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1964) - also labeled on the passenger side

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1962) - Door panel

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1962) - Ventilation, upright pedals

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1962) - with the 1.6-liter engine with two overhead camshafts, but one carburetor - the Alfa sign remained on the radiator

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1962) - View into the trunk

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1966) - on the rumble track

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1966) - on the road during chassis tests

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1962) - View through

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Alfa Romeo Giulia (1963) - classic concept with engine at the front and drive at the rear, see-through drawing

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Summary

The new star from Italy was a lowlifter, a real 'rocket' in the simple guise of the normal consumer, Hanno Parsifal began his early test of the Alfa Romeo Giulia 1600 TI in 1962, published in the magazine 'hobby'. Although he did not consider it to be beautiful, Parsifal found a lot to like about the fast saloon, which ultimately outperformed even well-known sports cars. The few weaknesses that were mentioned were then consistently corrected by Alfa in the following years. This article reproduces the test report from that time in words, carefully restored and edited. And shows the sporty saloon on archive material, some of which has never been shown before.

This article contains the following chapters

Great hope
Happy ending or tragedy?
Being more than appearing
Woe betide you if they let go...
Sports car in disguise
Without disc brakes
Too fashionable?
With steering wheel gearshift and bench seat
Good sales prospects
Test results and technical data

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

The new star from Italy is a low-rider, a real 'rocket' in the simple guise of a normal consumer. And it's called the Alfa Romeo Giulia TI 1600. The language of Dante makes it possible to transform ugly-sounding abbreviations into melodious names. Just as FIAT - Latin for 'let it be done' - was created from the initial letters of 'Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino' as a brand name, ALFA has been abbreviated from the name 'Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili' since 1909, and Alfa is the alpha and omega in Italian. Even the second part of the company's name, Romeo, is not a pure imitation of the Veronese tragedian of 'amore', but the name of the engineer Nicola Romeo, who bought the car factory in Lombardy in 1911. More precisely: in Portello, a suburb of Milan.

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