Alfa Romeo does not build many cars like the Alfa Romeo Brera: a 3-door 2+2 (car body style) / 2+2 coupé (Brera) / 2-door Roadster (automobile) / roadster (Spider) with 1.75 L Fiat Pratola Serra modular engines#Alfa Romeo applications, built from 2005 to 2010 in the decade of stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids. Its designer of record is Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign (Brera) / Pininfarina and Centro Stile Alfa Romeo (Spider) / Centro Stile Alfa Romeo (interior).
The background
The Alfa Romeo Brera and the Alfa Romeo Spider (Type 939) are sports cars/grand tourers using the GM/Fiat Premium platform, manufactured by Pininfarina and marketed by Alfa Romeo as a 2+2 coupé and roadster respectively. 12,488 units of the Spider and 21,786 units of the Brera were made with production ending in late 2010 and inventory remaining into 2011.
The name 'Brera' appears to come from the Brera district of Milan, which is known for being an artistic area and is sometimes referred to as the 'Milanese Montmartre'. Alfa Romeo was established in Milan in 1910.
The engineering
Under the skin sits 1.75 L Fiat Pratola Serra modular engines#Alfa Romeo applications; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Kerb weight is 1430 -. The gearbox is a 6-speed Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Selespeed Automated manual transmission / automated manual / 6-speed Manumatic / Q-Tronic Aisin AWTF-80 SC Automatic transmission / a. The wheelbase is 2528 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Where it sits in Alfa Romeo's history is not in doubt: the Alfa Romeo GTV and Spider (916) came before it; it was built at San Giorgio Canavese, Turin (Pininfarina), Italy. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Audi Q7, the Aston Martin Vantage, the Kia Sportage. Its Alfa Romeo stablemates include the A.L.F.A 12 HP and the A.L.F.A 15 HP.