Alfa Romeo Giulia TI Super - the speeding cloverleaf
Summary
Just over 500 Alfa Romeo Giulia TI Super were built between 1963 and 1964; they were sports cars in a saloon suit, suitable for family outings and racing on the track. The journalists of the time were eager to test drive the Porsche terror. J. Willek did this for the magazine 'hobby' and was enthusiastic, even if he did find a few points to criticize. This article reproduces the original wording and shows the Alfa Romeo Giulia TI Super in many historic pictures. Even the technical data sheet is available.
This article contains the following chapters
- A rocket!
- Less for more
- With a high-performance engine
- As comfortable and practical as a limousine
- Sporty styling
- No role model in terms of passive safety
- Racing car feeling
- Suitable for winter
- Better than some sports cars
- Bodywork
- Engine
- Gearbox
- Clutch
- Brakes
- Steering
- Road holding
- Quite expensive!
- The super sports car among the saloons
- Measured values and technical data
Estimated reading time: 6min
Preview (beginning of the article)
Today's Romeos are becoming increasingly sophisticated: the Giulia TI is an extremely speedy girl that hardly any of her classmates can match. But many people like it even hotter, and so the Giulia Tl Super appeared on the map of the 1963 Tour de France and, after a tough battle in which only 31 of the 122 cars that started made it to the finish line, took second place behind a 3-liter Ferrari GTO. Today you can buy the 'raging cloverleaf': for 9000 marks more than the Giulia Tl costs, hobby wanted to know whether the racy girl is really worth her 20,000 marks. I saw the Giulia Tl Super for the first time on the famous Monza racetrack, when it was shown to a select audience of sports drivers and Alfa fans. Although I know the Giulia from A to Z from my own experience, the Alfa Romeo factory drivers Sanesi, Guidotti and Zanardi demonstrated the 'Super' and the other expert spectators were no different.
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