04/11/13

GIULIA FOREVER AND...THEMA 

THE RETURN OF GLORIOUS FLAGSHIP

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Alfa Romeo will have its sedan, sporty, rear-wheel drive . The Giulia , a name that evokes the glorious past of the products of the brand, will return to the classical tradition of Alfa Romeo.

It will need to wait until 2015, but if the result, albeit in a different context, it will be guessed as the alpha 4C you can not really talk about Alfa Romeo 's DNA found at 100%.

The rumor has been anticipated by Automotive News Europe reported that as in Alfa Romeo is already working - then it would not be just a project on paper - on a new rear-drive platform and integral that will be used in four models.

That is, the Giulia, the sports sedan , the Giulia Sportwagon , a medium to large sized SUV and a sedan larger , the flagship Alpha missing for several years. The first product should be just the Giulia, which will oppose the German rear-wheel drive or four-wheel drive on the road to Alpha there will still be the BMW apparently - thanks to a starting point of great technical value, it seems.

In fact, it seems that the excellence of the Alfa Romeo has shifted a little ' home in Emilia Maserati . First with the 8C, 8C spider, Disco Volante, now with the 4C and in the future with the new platform. On which you are working just to Modena, Maserati's, with a team of engineers under the direction of Harald Wester, Chief Executive of Alfa Romeo and Maserati .

On this platform, for obvious market synergies , it should also be born the future Chrylser 300-Lancia Thema (this would be the right time for the great return of the flagship Italian)
The Giulia will therefore not be on the basis Juliet - that is, the C -Wide platform - but it should have far more noble birth.

(above a reconstruction of the Lancia flagship which will have the frame of the Giulia shared with the Chrysler 300 C)

The price to pay will be another delay in the arrival of waiting sedan and station wagon DefInt and coveted relaunch of Alfa Romeo.





(below the Thema Ferrari 8.32 1986, first car that invented the concept of sporty flagship, and Thema Integrale)

Author

Alberto R. Caramazza 




Sources
auto.it