New Alfa Romeo is a BMW M3 competitor

Posted on 23-01-2015 at 8:59 by Ricardo – 89 Comments”

If you ever wonder whether the high lords at Alfa Romeo all to ambition have diminished: no, absolutely not.

After years of procrastination and failed roadmaps, it seems now finally going to happen. On 24 June, the day that the Italians 105 years of existence, presents Alfa Romeo with a new sedan. One with rear wheel drive that the competition with ‘the big boys’ are concerned, says Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne, with whom he hint at a direct attack on the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series and Mercedes C-Class.

At the auto show of Detroit called Harald Wester, the man who, since 2010, provides leadership to Alpha, still something interesting. Namely that the new sedan has to compete with the performancemodellen of the BMW 3 Series. Of the still unnamed Alfa Romeo sedan we -eventually – so a stronger variant (or variants?) expect, that can compete with the 431 hp story M3. Wester went on, not on details such as motorization and prices.

But the success of Alfa’s sedan will not depend on an M3 competitor. To the desired each produced sales of 400,000 copies in 2018 to pick up will Alpha on the CO2’pages to watch out for. In other words: a selection of fuel-efficient engines create. We may hope that Marchionne made his claim of one new model per 6 to 9 months can deliver. Should this succeed this time, there is just a Alfa Romeo arise, that again is relevant. And counts in the USA. Because of that 400k alfas per year to 150,000 on the other side of the ocean to be deposited.

Anyway, we are already looking forward to June 24.

Remark: photo above is an impression of Thorsten Kirsch. About the final looks of Alfa’s sedan, nothing is yet known.