Saturday, September 17, 2011

History of Alfa Romeo car



Alfa Romeo is a car manufacturing company of Italy, by Cavaliere Ugo Stella, an aristocrat from Milan to work with automobile manufacturers Alexandre Darracq formed with the original name as "Darracq Italiana". Its founders were reorganized into a Darracq factory in Portello ideal, a suburb of Milan, but when World War I broke out, the plant switched to making weapons for the military and the work before termination. Since 1987, the company became a member of Fiat SpA. Fiat plans to merge with an Alfa Romeo parts is the Maserati to its subsidiary formed to manufacture cars and sports cars in the Fiat Group. This company called ALFA, is an acronym for Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili.

The first product of A.L.F.A. designed by Merosi named 1910 24HP. Travel-size cars as well as the subsequent design of Merosi very stable and not adventurous, but still high quality and reliability. Sales of A.L.F.A. has increased, but the outbreak of World War I was fighting an end to the production of its cars.
1915 Nicola Romeo bought ALFA after your name attached to the head company name. By 1916 the company made entirely under the control of the capitalist-cum-industrial mathematics.
First model was designed by Alfa Romeo company "new" is G1 in 1920, a large car. With some improvement in motor vehicles was launched in 1921 G2 model. 1922 RL models the series with OHV engine 3000 six public was introduced to the public including RLN (21/70hp) 'Normale', RLT (22/70hp) 'Turismo', RLS and RLSS (22 / 90hp). The model followed the next year the RM series, a smaller version with four-stroke engine and the 2000 version RM, RMS 'Sport' and RMU 'Unificato' (15/50hp and 15/55hp). In the figures of the models above, the first only horse power, second only to the speed and this is the final design of Merosi.
In a few years when Nicola Romeo took over, the company became involved in the motor racing Grand Prix. Guiseppe Merosi, an engineering study has been chief engineer of the company's lease.
Jano in 1923 started working for Alfa Romeo, and designed his first car was a very successful formula, called P2. Not long after, the car I was born, began production in 1927 6C 1500 models, use six public 1500cc engine. In 1929, a larger version of 1750 release for both formulations SOHC (45bhp) and DOHC (55bhp), again the car version with 85bhp supercharged appear.
During the crisis of our time Romeo in 1929, the company has suffered a series of financial difficulties and serious injury. Romeo has abandoned the role of directors in 1928 and soon after the collapse of its company owned by the Government.
Alfa Romeo won much success in all of its cars: Formula 1 car, original car, the car and the vehicle speed level. Many riders also achieved brilliant results in the individual race.
In 1954 appeared the first car with 1290cc engine named Giulietta, Berlina next model (four doors) and Spider (convertible) was born. Then the 1900 model continues to be created and then converted into the form 2000. Form 2600 was introduced in 1962 in Berlina, Spider and the Sprint variant different from the Alfa Romeo "enormous", and the first Alfa to use disc brakes have been produced.
A new passenger car models perfectly, Alfa Romeo 1900 was born in 1950 and in 1954 the Giulietta model was launched. This really is a car marked the beginning of the modern era in the history of Alfa Romeo cars.
Nino Farina in 1950 shocked the prize car race formula one world championship with 158 compressor model, in 1951 Juan Manuel Fangio won while driving a Alfetta 159 (an improvement of the engine compressor 158 2 public) . Alfa Romeo in 1960 the Italian government has been acquired and became famous thanks to specially designed for the security of this country.
In 1967 the famous Dustin Hoffman film called "The Graduate" has brought fame to the car "Spider" (known in Italian and the name "Duetto", or "Osso di Seppia" or Round-tail) . After a period of 1970, the government having some economic problems should have been sold for Fiat Alfa Romeo, the company has owned this trademark.
In 1972 marks a revolutionary change for Alfa Romeo Alfasud when introduced, the Alfa has drive system before the first, by Rodolfo Hruska design and installation of horizontal 4-cylinder engine. Alfetta same year of birth, a change the most significant technology ever to the rear suspension system, clutch, gearbox and differential transmission. This technology is applied to the sample in 1974 Alfetta GT designed by Giugiaro.
1976 Alfa motor vehicle diegel first created, it is Giulia. Giulietta name was revived in 1977 when I put the car manufacturer based Alfetta engine version 1300 and 1600 and followed a 2000 model. A new top model Alfa was established in 1979 under the shadow of the Alfa 6 and installation of the V6 - 2492cc and similar systems Alfetta suspension. A GTV6 coupe version was also released.
Until the 1980s, all vehicles of Alfa Romeos, except Alfasud, have the drive system. 1995 Alfa Romeo stopped exporting cars to the U.S. market. The company also plans to return to that market but so far no formal plan. With the help of Maserati, Alfa Romeo 159 and Alfa Romeo Brera is the model pioneered in North America.

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