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Fifty-Fifty - Alfa Romeo Alfetta saloon tested at the time

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Created on September 1, 1973

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Franz Stehno

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Alfa Romeo Alfetta (1975) - built between 1975 and 1981 in three displacement variants

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Alfa Romeo Alfetta (1972) - elegant sports sedan

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Alfa Romeo Alfetta (1972) - initially still equipped with chrome bumpers

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Alfa Romeo Alfetta (1972) - good all-round visibility in the sports sedan

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Alfa Romeo Alfetta (1972) - Interior with large round clocks and sports steering wheel

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Alfa Romeo Alfetta (1972) - good space in the sedan

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Alfa Romeo Alfetta (1972) - with plenty of space in the trunk

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Alfa Romeo Alfetta (1982) - Transparency drawing

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Alfa Romeo 2.0 (1982) - in the eighties with rectangular headlights

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Alfa Romeo 2.0 (1982) - in the eighties with more black and rubber

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Summary

With the Alfa Romeo Alfetta, the Milan-based car manufacturer presented a tranxaxle saloon in 1972 that set itself apart technically from its competitors and set a new trend for Alfa Romeo. The Austrian magazine Automobil Revue tested the new Alfetta in 1973 and praised its bomb-proof driving characteristics and good brakes, but also criticized its handling weaknesses and childish shortcomings. This report reproduces the original wording of the test at the time and shows the car in archive photos.

This article contains the following chapters

Comfort and sport: fifty-fifty
Power flow with a difference
Under the hood: an old acquaintance
Elegant interior
Good brakes
Upper mid-range with teething troubles
Comparison of the Alfetta with its competitors

Estimated reading time: 4min

Preview (beginning of the article)

The name Alfetta first appeared in the 1950s, when Alfa Romeo presented a racing car that differed from all previous cars in that its gearbox was not combined with the engine, but with the clutch and differential to form a single unit on the rear axle. The racing Alfetta of the time was thus the first automobile to have an almost balanced axle load ratio of almost 50:50 percent. However, this so-called transaxle principle, which created ideal conditions for balanced handling, was reflected in a more complex design, which was naturally reflected in the price. And so you have to leaf through automobile yearbooks for a long time to discover two other vehicles alongside the racing Alfetta of the 1950s and the Alfetta from 1972 in which the transmission units were arranged in the same way: the Lancia Aurelia GT and the American Pontiac Tempest.

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