No Alfa For Us

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Ever since Alfa Romeo left the US market in 1995, they have been saying they will be back. In a very un-Schwarzenegger kind of way, they never actually have been back. Now that Fiat owns Chrysler, it seems like there is a good change we will actually be seeing Alfas.. but their launch just got pushed back another year. The underlying problem is this: Alfa makes beautiful cars which are really not that good. But damn are some of them good looking.


Here is a kind of funny timeline of all of the promises made by Alfa since 2000 about coming back to the US

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