A compact wagon has been absent from the Fiat, Alfa and Lancia brands since the 2008 retirement of the Fiat Stilo Multi Wagon. Now, Alfa Romeo is bringing the wagon back to its European Giulietta line for 2013. In Italy, Germany, and other key European markets, wagons account for as much as three quarters of compact [...]
Alfa Romeo has once again delayed its re-introduction to the U.S. market has it scales back global expansion plans as the European debt crisis deepens. Alfa said that it will delay several key models that were to be launched in the United States by another year and has cancelled plans to build a mid-sized SUV [...]
In 1995, Alfa Romeo decided to kill the brand in the United States due to slow sales and a reputation for poor quality. However, in 200, then Fiat Group CEO Paolo Cantarella said that the brand will return to the United States in 2003 as a part of Fiat’s ill-fated alliance with General Motors. Well, [...]
Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has ambitious plans for Alfa Romeo’s return to the United States, a move that has been in the works since 2000, when General Motors and Fiat signed a joint venture that eventually fell apart. Marchionne says the wants to transform Alfa into a “full-line premium” automaker. The brand will make its [...]
With the Alfa Romeo Giulietta ready to go on sale in Europe in just a couple of weeks, the Fiat-owned brand is close to finalizing the final shape of the upcoming Giulia, a sedan that will compete with the likes of a BMW 3-Series. The new Alfa Romeo Giulia will make better use of all [...]
We’re slowly getting more information on Fiat Group’s role here in the United States as Sergio Marchionne reveals his 5-year business plan for the Italian automaker today in Turin, Italy. Following the Fiat 500 later this year, Marchionne says that Fiat’s Alfa Romeo brand will come to the stateside by 2012. Leading the charge will [...]
