SUPER AFFORDABLE SUPERCAR
The latest generation of Giulia saloon cars is clothed in some of the world’s most gorgeous motoring curves, as befits a car made by a company hailing from one of the world’s great capitals of fashion and style.
That wasn’t always the case, though. Many of Alfa’s earlier saloons were boxy affairs designed in-house, such as the ’50s Giulias, the ’70s Alfetta Berlinas, and the love-it-or-hate-it Alfa 75.
However, responsibility for the design of the marque’s coupés was handed to Italy’s deservedly more famous design houses and these remain the cars that get most of the attention. Bertone’s Franco Scaglione created the 101-series Giulietta Sprint and Spider, and Giorgetto Giugiaro the iconic 105-series cars for Bertone, as well as the Alfetta GT and GTV car we have here, but by then he had founded his own design house, Italdesign.
The taut, organic lines of the 105-series coupés remain the high point for many Alfa fans and, apart from Alfas of this era’s even more enthusiastic than usual reversion to rust, they will cope perfectly well in modern traffic and offer lots of fun while doing so. Values are heading north fast for any and all variants of these great cars, which means enthusiasts looking for a bargain must look
