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Alfa Romeo is hurriedly releasing as many performance variants as it can to ride the popularity wave of the new MiTo city car. Say buongiorno to the latest 1.4-liter, turbocharged, 180-HP Alfa Romeo MiTo Veloce. More »
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BMW and Fiat have signed a memorandum of understanding to co-develop the next-generation platform underpinning three different small cars — the Mini, the Alfa Romeo Mi.To, and the Fiat Grande Punto (which is desperately in need of help based on our experience). To borrow a phrase, the auto industry works in mysterious ways. More »
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Can't get enough of the cute little Alfa Romeo MiTo? Neither can we. So while the Fiat Grande Punto-based Alfa isn't available until July, we still enjoy watching it race around the test track. Maybe if we can get enough people to want one, Alfa will bring it to the US? More »
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This is what's known in the industry as the Halo effect. Believe it or not, Alfa Romeo aren't making the 8C Competizione because they lay awake at night dreaming about the color red combined with 450bhp V8s, but because their accountants spend all day figuring out what building such a vehicle will have on the sales of bread and butter models like the Mi.To hatch. We're pleasantly surprised to see so many design similarities between the Alfa we can afford and the one we can't, well, from the front and rear at least. Mi.To sales start in Europe this July with engines ranging from 95-155bhp. The 8C should be making it stateside later this year, heralding a return to the country for the brand, lets hope the Mi.To will follow. [via Autoblog.it] More »
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After the success of BMW's Mini Cooper ("you got them to pay what for that?") many companies have been anxious to offer their own alternatives to the pseudo-British hatch. Alfa Romeo is now one of the first to get in with the decidedly un-retro Mi.To., which looks more like an 8C Competizione than any hatch historically offered by the company. This sexy little beast is set to come with four diesel and gas engines with power ranging from 90 to 155 horsepower, though they promise much better performance to numbers in the near future. More on that later. For now pictures and press release below.
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