Alfa Romeo SZ / RZ “Il Mostro”: Alfa Romeo’s Provocation Fiat had just bought Alfa Romeo, and nobody yet knew what would be left of the brand. In 1986, the IRI sold Alfa Romeo to the Fiat Group after Ford had also tried to acquire the Milanese manufacturer. The new owner inherited financial problems, an … Read more
The Alfa Romeo Busso V6: The Engine That Sounds Like God Gargling 27 Years of Mechanical Poetry Between 1979 and 2005, Alfa Romeo produced an engine so sonically transcendent that automotive journalists have exhausted their thesauruses trying to describe it. The Busso V6—named after its creator Giuseppe Busso—wasn’t the most powerful engine of its era. … Read more
The Alfa Romeo GTV6: The Last True Alfa Before the Dark Ages When Italy Still Built Driver’s Cars In 1980, Alfa Romeo did something that seems impossibly romantic in hindsight: they took a perfectly good sports coupé and installed one of the greatest engines ever built. The engine was Giuseppe Busso‘s 2.5-liter V6. The car … Read more
