Alfa Romeo 90

Alfa Romeo 90

Alfa Romeo

Production1984–1987
EnginePetrol / 1.8 L Alfa Romeo Twin Cam engine / Twin Cam Inline-four engine / I4 / 2.0 L Twin Cam I4 / 2.0 L Alfa Romeo V6 engine / Alfa Romeo V6 engine / V6 / 2.5 
Units built56,428

The Alfa Romeo 90 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 1984. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Alfa Romeo 90 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1980s were the decade of turbocharging, electronic fuel injection and the first mass digital engine management — Group B rallying and hot hatches defined its performance culture. 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 SEAT SEAT Ibiza, the Renault Renault Espace, the Ferrari Ferrari Testarossa — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Alfa Romeo 90 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol / 1.8 L Alfa Romeo Twin Cam engine / Twin Cam Inline-four engine / I4 / 2.0 L Twin Cam I4 / 2.0 L Alfa Romeo V6 engine / Alfa Romeo V6 engine / V6 / 2.5 ; kerb weight is recorded at 1080 -; drive goes through 5-speed manual; the layout is Front-engine, rear-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 56,428 units, which makes it a solid production run.

Its place in the Alfa Romeo story

Within Alfa Romeo's own catalogue the Alfa Romeo 90 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 Alfetta as its predecessor and the Alfa Romeo 164 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Bertone under Marc Deschamps. Assembly is recorded at Italy: Arese Plant, Lombardy.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Alfa Romeo 90 costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.

Specifications

Transmission5-speed manual
LayoutFront-engine, rear-wheel-drive
Body style4-door saloon
Kerb weight1080 -
Wheelbase2510 mm
Length4,390 mm
AssemblyItaly: Arese Plant, Lombardy
DesignerBertone under Marc Deschamps
Catalogue IDQ1474175

Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.

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