Alfa Romeo
Among the 194 Alfa Romeo entries in the MotorJury library, the Alfa Romeo 159 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 2004. 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 159 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 Ford Ford Mustang, the Chrysler Chrysler 300, the Hyundai Hyundai Tucson — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Alfa Romeo 159 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol: / 1.75 L Fiat Pratola Serra modular engines#Applications on Alfa Romeo / 1750 TBi Turbocharger / turbo 16V Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.8 L GM Family 1 engine#Ge; kerb weight is recorded at 1385 –; drive goes through 5-speed manual transmission / manual / 6-speed manual (M32, F40, C635) / 6-speed Selespeed automated manual transmission / automated manual / 6-speed Q-Tronic AWTF-80 SC Automatic ; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / four-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 247,661 units, which makes it a solid production run.
Within Alfa Romeo's own catalogue the Alfa Romeo 159 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 156 as its predecessor and the Alfa Romeo Giulia (952) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign / Centro Stile Alfa Romeo (interior). Assembly is recorded at Italy: Pomigliano d'Arco.
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