Alfa Romeo 159

The Alfa Romeo 159 is a car manufactured by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo, subsidiary of the group FIAT Automobiles.

The Italian carriage-builder Giugiaro is the gifted designer of this wonder.

The 159 was conceived at the time where FIAT and General Motors maintained the relations financial and technological (2000-2005), the six-cylinder motor comes from a base of Holden in Australia but largely worked again at Alfa Romeo in Italy. The 4 cylinders gasoline and all the diesels are of origin FIAT.

The diesels all are equipped with a particle filter of series.

The front seats are equipped with a device which, in the event of back shock, brings the head-rest closer to the nape of the neck of the occupants.

In 2005 one notes the launching of station-wagon 159 as elegant as the truck.

Esparto 159 is characterized by a sporting line and an interior completion but very elegant, even refined. With its very aggressive front face, derived from the Brera half-compartment, the suspensions comprise “high” quadrilaterals with before and a rear wheel-axle unit will multibras. Compared to the preceding one Alfa Romeo 156 Esparto 159 saw its dimensions evolving/moving considerably: length 4.66 m (+ 22cm), width 1.83 m (+7 cm). All that in order to respect the new standards of crash landing test. The weight of the car also shows an increase in almost 200 kg, which penalizes a little the values pure speed and recovery on the last reports/ratios of box. The perceived quality of the car is some on the other hand very definitely improved with a level of completion to make fade some… competitor.

It is also necessary to underline exceptional qualities of the handling and the stability of the car in all circumstances. The torsion strength of the case reaches values hitherto unthinkable for a truck of this class: 180.000 daNm/grad. Over-equipped on the level safety, it offers series not less than seven airbags, which enabled him to obtain without problem 5 stars with the crash landing EuroNCAP test.

Motorizations

Alfa Romeo 159 lays out, since its launching of seven motorizations, four gasoline and four diesels.

Versions Gasoline

1.8 MPI, 103 KW/140 CV, 4 cylinders on line.
1.9 JTS, 118 KW/160 CV, 4 cylinders on line.
2.2 JTS, 136 kw/185 CV, 4 cylinders on line.
3.2 V6 JTS, 191 kw/260 CV, 6 cylinders out of V 60°, integral traction Q4.

All the engines are out of light alloy, except for the 1,8 MPI, equipped with a direct gasoline injection (except the 1.8 MPI), phasage variable with aspiration and the exhaust. Engineers Alfa Romeo worked much on these engines to give them the necessary reliability and the typical sonority of the Alfa engines.

The 3.2 V6 belongs to the innovations GM-H.F from which the development began in 1999. Deep modifications were made by engineers Alfa Romeo. Specific manufacture is ensured in the factory Holden de Port Melbourne.

Since October 2006 una version 2.2 JTS with automatic box M32 MTA selespeed are available.

Versions Diesel

1.9 JTDm 8v (120 CV)
1.9 JTDm 16v (150 CV)
2.4 JTDm 20v (200 CV): in the course of replacement by the 210cv.
2.4 JTDm 20v (210 CV)

In a future that all hope near, Esparto 159 should be proposed with a diesel engine 3.0 V6 JTDm of 250 CV, with automatic box and integral traction. The couple would exceed the 500 Nm. This engine is under development with the company VM Motori which is well-known engineers Alfa because they belonged to the group of State Finmeccanica before being privatized. Moreover, it was already an engine VM which equipped Alfa Romeo 164 in the Eighties.

While waiting for this monster, Alfa Romeo increased the power of the 2.4 JTDm 5 cylinders from 200 to 210 cv.

FIAT Powertrain Technologies presented in July 2007 a noouvelle technology on the engines 1,9 multijet with turbo on two floors what makes it possible to make pass the power from 150 to 180/190 cv. SAAB already annocé the purchase of this version and a new version of Esparto 159 should be presented to the next living room of Frankfurt been driven by these engines.

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