Alfa Romeo
The Alfa Romeo Alfa 6 (Type 119) is an executive car produced by the Italian automaker Alfa Romeo from 1979 to 1986. Its name refers to the six cylinders of the Alfa Romeo V6 engine, which made its first appearance on this car.
From the Wikipedia article Alfa Romeo Alfa 6, CC BY-SA.
Among the 194 Alfa Romeo entries in the MotorJury library, the Alfa Romeo Alfa 6 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 1979. 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 Alfa 6 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1970s were the decade the oil crises rewired the industry — emissions rules, safety bumpers and fuel economy suddenly mattered as much as horsepower, and Japanese manufacturers went global. 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 Lancia Lancia Delta, the Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz G-Class, the GM (General Motors) Saab 900 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Alfa Romeo Alfa 6 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol: / 2.0 L Alfa Romeo V6 engine / Alfa Romeo V6 engine / V6 / 2.5 L Alfa Romeo V6 / Diesel: / 2.5 L VM Motori / VM List of VM Motori engines#HR588 / HR588 Turbo-diesel Inline-; kerb weight is recorded at 1480 kg (petrol) / 1580 kg (turbodiesel); drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 3-speed ZF Friedrichshafen / ZF Automatic transmission / automatic; 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.
Within Alfa Romeo's own catalogue the Alfa Romeo Alfa 6 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 2600 as its predecessor and the Alfa Romeo 164 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at Italy: Arese (MI) Plant, Lombardy.
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Contemporaries from other marques, introduced within three years of this car.