Alfa Romeo’s MiTo, the Italian companies answer to BMW’s MINI(more or less) has just gone on sale in England. Why is this such a big deal? Because with Fiats recent acquisition of 35% of Chrysler, the MiTo is one of the models slated for our shores. So let’s take a look at what we will [...]
Alfa Romeo has announced their 8C Competizione “sex-on-wheels” sports car will be dropping its top for the 2008 Geneva Motor Show. The C8 Spider, which will go on sale here early next year, will shed its fixed roof for a conventional cloth top. Sorry hardtop lovers, no fancy metal folding-roofs will be offered. But don’t [...]
I like the Dutch, they seem like really nice people (or at least everyone that I’ve met or worked with so far). They’re also motorheads, given the right circumstances (think of Arie Luyendyk), and one of the car blogs that I check out regularly is called Autogespot (I have no idea how to say it [...]
For news of the weird comes the little tidbit that Alfa Romeo is planning on opening an assembly plant here in the U. S. of A. OK, and why not … the dollar is sinking, labor is cheap here, and you’d think there’d be a whole bunch of blue collar types floating around out there [...]