Posts Tagged ‘Alfa’
Alfa Celebrates
August 31st, 2010 
Kyle Stone Alfa Romeo GT Limited Edition It’s Alfa’s centenary year I’m sure you know, and as such I’m also sure you’ve been waiting with bated breath for the inevitable Limited Edition commemorating the occasion, everyone’s doing it nowadays. Well, it’s here, and my word is it a looker, which considering Alfa’s heritage and philosophy over the [...]
Drive Test – Alfa Romeo MiTo Progression
August 11th, 2010 Russell 
The Soft Touch? . It’s Alfas centenary this year, 2010. One full century that the company has been in business, not just building cars, but in fact, building a pretty epic legend. The glories of Alfa’s past very publically on track and much more privately along the back roads of the world built enough momentum [...]
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Tags: 100kW, Alfa, MiTo, Multiair, Progression, road, Romeo, test 
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March 8th, 2010 Russell Red Hot! Drive Magazine, December ’09 Alfa Romeo as a brand can hardly be classed as a volume seller in South Africa. An Alfa has always been seen as a car that you buy with your heart not your head. Alfa is the defacto Italian car that puts style ahead of practicality, driving experience ahead [...]
Drive Test – Alfa Romeo MiTo
January 20th, 2010 Russell Lady in red Read the Drive Magazine road test here, and our launch impression here. Alfa Romeo as a brand can hardly be classed as a volume seller in South Africa. An Alfa has always been seen as a car that you buy with your heart not your head. Alfa is the defacto Italian car [...]
Alfa Romeo Giulietta announced! And it’s heading to RSA in Q3 2010 too
December 3rd, 2009 Kyle Stone When Drive recently road tested the Alfa Romeo MiTo for the December issue it turned out to be an exceptionally good package overall. I personally however had two problems with the MiTo, that ostentatious front grill was a bit much, even for an Alfa and lastly the little 1.4l motor was good but as they [...]
Cute AND Sexy – Alfa's new MiTo scores!
August 10th, 2009 Russell Hey Good-Lookin’! The Alfa Romeo MiTo is so beautiful one just has to talk about its appearance ahead of its sparkling power, enjoyable roadholding, Italian tradition – and even that odd name. The MiTo, to put it simply, looks like an Alfa should. There’s a fairly wide choice of colours and while Italian cars traditionally [...]
