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Last Auto account – Is Alfa’s 159 A Winning Number? Here’s an Italian ancestors car that’s dressed up to the nines. Take a attending at the aboriginal pictures of Alfa Romeo’s all-new 159 advanced of its official actualization at the Geneva Motor Show next month.

With its aciculate Giugiaro-designed body, a cutting-edge new belvedere and a ambit of revamped engines, this is an Alfa that will not await on appearance abandoned in adjustment to allure buyers. The 156 backup carries over abounding of its predecessor’s administration cues, but adds even added characteristic details.

Named afterwards the firm’s acclaimed 1951 chase car, the 159′s a lot of arresting affection is its foreground end, which carries the now-familiar two sets of three lamps either ancillary of the Alfa shield.

The advancing administration is connected forth the contour by a aciculate shoulderline, although the rear gets a added bourgeois look. And to accord the 159 the addition it needs to accretion a ballast in the ancestors car market, a bulk of beginning powerplants is offered. The petrol agency has 160bhp 1.9, 185bhp 2.2 and 260bhp 3.2-litre JTS engines, all with connected capricious valve timing.

Diesel buyers can aswell accept from three units. The entry-level oil-burner is a 1.9 acquainted to 120bhp, while a 150bhp adaptation is aswell available. The flagship agent will be a 2.4-litre five-cylinder JTDM bearing 200bhp and 400Nm of torque. All six powerplants accommodated Euro IV emissions regulations. Chiral transmissions are six-speed, as are the accepted automated and Selespeed clutchless chiral systems.

Inside, Alfa claims that the 159 is roomier than the approachable 156 acknowledgment to a 225mm access in breadth and an added 85mm width. The close has aswell concentrated on the active position, in a bid to ensure that the 159 doesn’t appear in for criticism for poor ergonomics – a accustomed complaint on earlier Alfa models.

To maximise Alfa’s adventurous image, the new alehouse will aswell be accessible with the company’s own Q4 all-wheel-drive system. However, a lot of models will augment ability to the foreground wheels, and engineers are currently alive collapsed out to try to ensure all variants are chic leaders for their ride and handling.

The new archetypal is set to go on auction throughout Europe this summer, but right-hand-drive cars will not access to
replace the 156 in the UK until January 2006. A Sportwagon acreage adaptation is accepted to accompany the ambit afore the end of next year.