Alfa Romeo
Alfa Romeo Giulia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒuːlja]) is the name of three not directly related model (line)s from Italian carmaker Alfa Romeo. The first were the four-door Type 105 entry-level compact executive sports sedans produced from 1962 to 1978; the second are the updated (mainly up-engined) Spider, Sprint, and Sprint Speciale Alfa Giuliettas, and in 2015, Alfa Romeo revived the Giulia name, again for a compact executive car (type 952). Alfa Romeo was one of the first mainstream manufacturers to put a powerful engine in a light-weight 1 tonne (2,205 lb) four-door car for mass production. The Type 105 Giulia was equipped with a light alloy twin overhead camshaft four-cylinder engine similar to that of the earlier Giulietta (750/101) range, available in 1.3-litre (1,290 cc) and 1.6-litre (1,570 cc) versions.
Various configurations of carburetors and tuning produced power outputs from about 80 to about 110 bhp (55 to 75 kW), coupled in most cases to 5-speed manual transmission. Giulia sedans were noted for lively handling and impressive acceleration among small European four-door sedans of their era, especially considering modest engine sizes offered. The popular Super version with the twin carburettor 1.6 litre engine had a top speed of 170 km/h (106 mph) and accelerated from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in about 12 seconds, better than many sports cars of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The styling of the three-box four-door sedan was square and boxy, softened only by detailing of the front and bonnet, roofline, and boot. Using a wind tunnel during development helped de
From the Wikipedia article Alfa Romeo Giulia, CC BY-SA.
Among the 194 Alfa Romeo entries in the MotorJury library, the Alfa Romeo Giulia 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 1962. 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 Giulia properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. 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 Ferrari Ferrari 250 GTO, the Pontiac Pontiac GTO, the Maserati Maserati Quattroporte — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Alfa Romeo Giulia reads like this: the record lists its engine as 1.3 L Alfa Romeo Twin Cam engine / Twin Cam Inline-four engine / I4 (Petrol engine / petrol) / 1.6 L Twin Cam I4 (petrol) / 1.8 L Perkins Engines / Perkins 4.108 I4 ; kerb weight is recorded at 978 –; drive goes through 4-speed manual (Giulia 1300) / 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.
Within Alfa Romeo's own catalogue the Alfa Romeo Giulia 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 Giulietta (750/101) as its predecessor and the Alfa Romeo Giulietta (116) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Giuseppe Scarnati. Assembly is recorded at Italy: Portello Plant, Milan (1962–1965) / Italy: Arese Plant, Arese (MI) (1965–1978) / Portugal: Setúbal (Movauto) / South Africa: Rosslyn, Gauteng / Rhodesia: Willowvale, Salisbu.
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