Thursday, February 2, 2012
GTV and Spider Buyers Guide
This article covers the Alfa Romeo GTV and Spider models launched in 1995, which remained in production until 2005. The Pininfarina design was bold at the time and still looks fresh today. Both models shared the same front end and there was some mechanical part commonality with the 155, which was based loosely around Fiat Tempra underpinnings.
Although Alfa had produced front wheel drive cars since the 1972 Alfasud, these were the first coupe and spider models so equipped. With the previous Alfetta GTV having been out of production since 1986 and the Series 4 Spider since 1992 there were no immediate predecessors to compare with. However initial reaction was very favourable with both models receiving tempered praise in the motoring press (remember this was the time when Alfa were still recovering and sales were very poor).
