Start with what the Alfa Romeo 164 is: a 4-door saloon with 2.0 , built from 1987 to 1998, in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Enrico Fumia at Pininfarina. 268,757 were built.
The background
The Alfa Romeo 164 (Type 164) is a four-door executive saloon manufactured and marketed by Italian automaker Alfa Romeo from 1987 to 1998, styled by Pininfarina, and cooperatively designed and sharing platforms and numerous elements with the Fiat Croma, Saab 9000 and Lancia Thema. The 164 succeeded the Alfa Romeo 90 and Alfa 6.
The 164 was followed by the 166 in 1998, after a combined production total of 273,857 units. The 164 was also the last Alfa Romeo officially sold in the United States until the 2015 launch of the Alfa Romeo Giulia. Alfa Romeo withdrew after the 1995 model year due to reliability concerns and slow sales.
The engineering
The engine is 2.0 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1200 –. Drive goes through a 5-speed manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Getrag manual / 4-speed ZF 4HP18 transmission / ZF 4HP18Q Automatic transmission / automatic / 4-speed ZF 4HP18 transmission / ZF 4HP. The wheelbase is 2660 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Alfa Romeo line-up the Alfa Romeo 164 has a clear place: it replaced the Alfa Romeo 90 / Alfa Romeo Alfa 6 / Alfa Romeo 2300; it handed the line to the Alfa Romeo 166; the factory was Arese Plant, Lombardy, Italy. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the BMW 5 Series, the Ferrari F40, the Jeep Wrangler. Its Alfa Romeo stablemates include the A.L.F.A 12 HP and the A.L.F.A 15 HP.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Alfa Romeo 164 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.