Alfa Romeo
The Alfa Romeo 147 (Type 937) is a small family car produced by the Italian automaker Alfa Romeo from 2000 to 2010. The 147 was voted European Car of the Year in 2001. The 147 was launched at the Turin Motor Show in June 2000 as a replacement for the Alfa Romeo 145 and 146 hatchbacks and is based on the running gear of the larger 156 saloon.
It was sold with 1.6, 2.0, and 3.2-liter petrol engines, and a 1.9-liter diesel engine. A paddle-operated Selespeed automatic transmission was available from launch. Two trim levels, Turismo and Lusso were available, and the 147 was the first Alfa Romeo to have dual-zone climate control and electronic traction control. In production for ten years, the 147 was one of the oldest small family cars on sale in Europe at the time of its replacement, reaching a production figure of 651,823.
From the Wikipedia article Alfa Romeo 147, CC BY-SA.
Among the 194 Alfa Romeo entries in the MotorJury library, the Alfa Romeo 147 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2000. 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 147 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. 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 Hyundai Hyundai Santa Fe, the BMW BMW X5, the Toyota Toyota Yaris — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Alfa Romeo 147 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / petrol: / 1.6 L Alfa Romeo Twin Spark engine#16-valve Twin Spark engines / Twin Spark 16V Straight-four engine / I4 / 2.0 L Alfa Romeo Twin Spark engine#1; kerb weight is recorded at 1200 –; drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed manual / 5-speed Selespeed automated manual transmission / automated manual / 6-speed Selespeed automated manual; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. 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 651,823 units, which makes it a solid production run.
Within Alfa Romeo's own catalogue the Alfa Romeo 147 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 145/146 as its predecessor and the Alfa Romeo Giulietta (940) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Walter de Silva and Wolfgang Egger at Centro Stile Alfa Romeo / Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign (restyling). Assembly is recorded at Italy: Pomigliano d'Arco plant, Campania.
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