Design language and background noise are a tradition at Autodelta
06/08/2013
Auto Delta is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. To mark the anniversary, Auto Delta made various historic Alfa models available on the Balocco test track last Tuesday.
There they stood and drove again: the TZ1, a GTA and the 1750 GT Junior. They all impressed not only with their timelessly attractive design language.
They were great fun to drive, as long as you knew how to drive a car with"intermediate throttle". The Russian journalists found this very difficult, so difficult that they were unable to find a gear at all when downshifting and ultimately had to coast through the bend, and not just once.
Their joy was then severely limited and they showed much more enthusiasm for current models such as the Mito and Giulietta.
Despite the perfect suspension set-up of the current vehicles and their modern comfort features, the new cars are sidelined simply because of their comparatively boring background noise, at least from the point of view of fans of classic sports and racing cars. Added to this is the contemporary design, which is characterized by aerodynamic and safety requirements and hardly attracts any attention next to an aggressive GTA from the sixties. Even more extreme than the GTA, however, was the 33/2 from 1968 (see picture above) - neither trousers nor T-shirt stay in place.
