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Alfa Romeo Bets Big on America and Wins
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... a-and-wins

The racy brand outperformed all others in U.S. sales last year.

Alfa Romeo, the Italian brand built (and rebuilt) on 1960s sex appeal, posted the biggest surge in U.S. sales in 2017, an anachronistic result in an industry currently mesmerized by battery packs and self-piloted transportation pods.

The carmaker won its bragging rights the old-fashioned way—through performance. Alfas have curb appeal, powerful engines, and solid engineering.
Launch control

Two new vehicles helped Alfa-Romeo grow sales 23-fold in 2017


Source: Bloomberg Intelligence, Carsalesbase.com


Make no mistake, auto executives are watching the Alfa Romeo experiment closely. It’s not something one sees all that often in the car business these days. Fiat Chrysler assembled a skunk works of marketing gurus and Ferrari engineers and told them to dream big. It also promised to “protect” them from senior leadership—the folks who look for the kinds of parts-sharing, cooperation, and badge engineering that make a contemporary car conglomerate a profit machine.

The bar for success, of course, is mighty low for Alfa Romeo. The Fiat Chrysler-owned brand has been largely dormant in the U.S. for almost 25 years. In 2016, the marque sold just 528 machines in America. In recent months, however, Alfa launched a sinuous sedan and SUV. Both are made in Italy, both feature carbon-fiber driveshafts, and both brag about “best-in-class” horsepower metrics. The cars have stolen some market share from BMW, Mercedes, Cadillac, and the rest of the luxury set.

When Fiat Chrysler pledged to resurrect Alfa in America, it promised vehicles with great weight distribution, a lot of horsepower per pound, and mouth-watering design. After all, this is a brand responsible for what some call the sexiest car ever made. According to auto folks, the brand delivered. Motor Trend magazine even crowned the Giulia its Car of the Year.

Meanwhile, Carlock Motor Cars in Nashville has had trouble keeping the Giulia in stock, mostly because it’s such a bold offering. Buyers are looking for a particular version, the souped-up TI Sport package, preferably in a bright color. “It was a little counterintuitive for us,” sales manager Mitchell Sherwood said. “They’re definitely not buying it in silver with black interior and trying to blend in.”
Reid Bigland, head of Alfa Romeo for Fiat Chrysler, unveiled the brand’s first SUV, the Stelvio, to gawking car-lovers in Los Angeles late in 2016.Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

Although sales of the cars have been strong, Fiat Chrysler’s rivals in Stuttgart aren’t likely to be scared. Alfa has just 177 U.S. dealers, roughly half as many as BMW and Mercedes. In the two segments it has nudged its way into, the carmaker still isn’t near the front-runners, or even in the middle of the pack. Among entry-level luxury sedans, the Giulia captured only 2 percent market share in the recent quarter.
Starting small

When it comes to sporty sedans, Alfa Romeo still lags the pack


Source: Bloomberg Intelligence


“We want to make sure we earn our position in the segment,” said Pieter Hogeveen, Alfa’s director in North America. “It’s not just chasing sales numbers for us.” If Alfa Romeo can keep convincing enough drivers it’s special, it will have the pricing power to tune up its profit metrics.

Indeed, the brand’s renaissance in the U.S. has helped shore up Fiat Chrysler’s profit, even as sales skidded at sibling brands Chrysler and Jeep. Alfa may never be big enough to carry the company’s dead weight, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in style.

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Sta mi je dopalo pod ruke

Malo cu ga izvozati ovih dana pa dati vise utisaka, za sada samo da su prvi utisci vrlo poziivni.

A daaa. Video si i mrmota

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Alfa Romeo's 2017 production surged 62% on new models
http://europe.autonews.com/article/2018 ... new-models

Alfa Romeo increased production by 62 percent last year, boosted by sales of the Guilia sedan and Stelvio SUV, but the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles brand fell short of FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne's expectations.

Alfa's output at its three Italian factories was 150,722, up from the 93,117 in 2016, according to the Fim-Cisl union. FCA does not release production or sales numbers.

Speaking to analysts in April and in July last year, Marchionne said he expected Alfa's vehicle sales to be 170,000 for 2017. At the end of October Marchionne was more cautious, saying the brand's U.S. sales were slower than expected and Alfa was "behind the curve" in China.

Market researchers JATO Dynamics estimate the brand's global sales were 118,000 and 125,000 last year, up from 71,700 in 2016.

Alfa's U.S. sales rose to 12,031 for the year, up from just 516 in 2016, according to the Automotive News Data Center after the Giulia went on sale to American customers in January and the Stelvio in July.

The brand's volume in the EU and EFTA markets rose 33 percent to 79,963 in the first 11 months, according to industry association ACEA. Full-year sales will be released later this month.

China blow

In China, Alfa was hurt by new regulations that came into force in July limiting the ability of automakers to push sales through dealers. Alfa's sales in China were 410 units in November, according to a JATO estimate, and 497 in December, according to an LMC estimate. The figures were well down on July, the brand's best month, when it sold 3,331 cars in China, according to JATO.

Alfa's global sales will be between 140,000 and 150,000 this year, JATO estimates. Alfa has no new products coming this year so its sales performance will depend on the success of the Stelvio in the U.S. and China, JATO analyst Filipe Munoz said.

Marchionne's revival plan for Alfa, unveiled in 2014, called for 400,000 global sales by 2018 with an expanded lineup of eight new models.

In 2016, FCA dropped Alfa's volume targets and extended the date for completing the 8-model lineup to mid-2020.

Gledam malo uputstvo za 159, ladno je razlika izmedju min i maks dimenzije gume 6%, odnosno nekih 4cm precnika, sto je jelte 2cm klirensa, ne cudi sto neki kukaju na visinu i sto ima razlicitih podataka za klirens, koji bi trebao biti 14cm, ali sa malim gumama i sportskim ogibljenjem -10mm moze biti i 11cm.

Sta reci, cuore sportivo (far je sa grande punta)

Ja ti kazem, TI verzija je nenormalno niska, a bese neko je gledao bas TI paket, ne secam se ko, secam se samo da smo o tome pricali.

Mali Pass je gledao...ali je posle povukao Kiu...

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