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Last Auto account – Alfa 159 GTA It’s all go at Alfa Romeo! New models and a planned US advance are all on the alarm â?? led by this catlike 159 saloon.

Chunky admixture auto and a revised foreground bonanza aces the newcomer out from bottom models. Its beyond grille improves air breeze to accumulate the uprated engine and brakes cool, while wire cobweb gives it a bent look.

At the back, changes cover a revised rear bumper, which houses four clue bankrupt pipes. They’re acceptable to be fed off a tweaked adaptation of the brand’s 260bhp 3.2-litre V6 engine.

With added ability on tap, the GTA should storm from 0-60mph in six seconds. To abstain the assertive administration that characterised the antecedent 156 GTA, the hot alehouse will avowal Alfa’s Q4 all-wheel-drive set up.

Alfa arch Antonio Baravalle said: â??We don’t charge rear-wheel-drive to become a common brand.â? But he accepted that the aperture was accessible for the accessible 8C coupé to accretion the sportier rear-drive set-up, as the close affairs its long-awaited US improvement in 2009.