Alfa Romeo
The Alfa Romeo 145 (Type 930A) and the Alfa Romeo 146 (Type 930B) are small family cars produced by Italian automobile manufacturer Alfa Romeo between 1994 and 2000. The 145 is a three-door hatchback and was launched at the 1994 Turin Motor Show, while the 146 is a five-door hatchback, launched in 1995 to replace the Alfa Romeo 33. The 145 and 146 share exterior and interior components from the B-pillar forwards. A total of 221,037 145s and 233,295 146s were built.
From the Wikipedia article Alfa Romeo 145 and 146, CC BY-SA.
The Alfa Romeo 145 is one of 194 Alfa Romeo models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1994. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Alfa Romeo 145 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Audi AG Audi A6, the Subaru Subaru Outback, the Audi AG Audi A4 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Alfa Romeo 145 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol: / 1.4 L Alfa Romeo Boxer engine / Boxer Flat-four engine / Flat-4 / 1.6 L Boxer Flat-4 / 1.7 L Boxer Flat-4 / 1.4 L Alfa Romeo Twin Spark engine / Twin Spark Straight-4 / I; kerb weight is recorded at 1140 –; drive goes through 5-speed manual; the layout is Longitudinal front-engine, front-wheel-drive (Boxer) / Transverse front-engine, front-wheel-drive (Twin Spark). Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear. Production is recorded at 221,037 units, which makes it a solid production run.
Within Alfa Romeo's own catalogue the Alfa Romeo 145 sits alongside the A.L.F.A 12 HP, the A.L.F.A 15 HP, the A.L.F.A 15-20 HP, the A.L.F.A 24 HP. The record names the Alfa Romeo 33 as its predecessor and the Alfa Romeo 147 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Chris Bangle at Centro Stile Fiat (145) / Centro Stile Alfa Romeo under Walter de Silva (146). Assembly is recorded at Italy: Pomigliano d'Arco plant, Campania.
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