Alfa Romeo TZ2
Is uncompromisingly sporty Alfa Romeo TZ2 of which was produced in small series from 1965. The sports car weighs only 620 kg and consists primarily of plastic and aluminum. There is no insulation, the windows are partly made of Plexiglas. The only 1570 cubic centimeters small four-cylinder provides the highest upgrade level 170 hp and accelerates the flat only 1.2 meters and less than four feet short TZ2 h to over 250 km / The accompanying music is deafening and compare it with anything that may now legally ride on streets.
Similarly, athletic, although significantly more often to be seen, the Alfa Romeo Junior. In its racing version of GTA 1300 Junior, however, he is a sought-after collector’s item. From 1.3 liters, the Italians bring with him up to 165 hp, bringing the 760-kilogram racer under hair-raising noise to a peak of up to 210 km / h. Of the 447 GTA Junior ever produced about 300 copies were built as a pure race cars.
What is lacking is emotion
So uncompromising light and indescribably beautiful Alfa Romeo are the last century, as normally give the Italians in the last 30 years. Although every now and then they try to score points with subtly daring forms among buyers is very fancy or radical Alfa Romeo but no more.
They seek refuge in the combination of nice design and modern technology. After all, Alfa Romeo 1997 brought the first common-rail direct-injection engine on the market and starts to date with the Multiair technology through. But the poor quality, beginning in the 1980s, and thus lost the confidence of customers still gnaws at the image of the traditional company.
Perhaps more should Alfa Romeo believed the old values and re-assemble vehicles with low weight and longer face so that the Cuore Sportivo the Alfisti comes back on the road and not just fatty degeneration. Because mainstream Italian fans are already at Fiat – and that’s good.
