Alfa's smart-looking hatchback was built for what seemed like a century - and yet it's only just made it to shed
Alfa's smart-looking hatchback was built for what seemed like a century - and yet it's only just made it to shedTime for another bang of Shed’s celebratory dinner gong this week as he welcomes another SOTW debutant, Alfa Romeo’s Giulietta. Not only that, it’s a dirt cheap one too.
This Giulietta is powered by a JTDM-2 2.0 diesel which in 2011, the year our car was registered, could be had in a choice of outputs: 167hp, which was good for 133mph and a 0-60mph time in the low eights, or 138hp, giving you 127mph and a 0-60mph time in the high eights. The ad is claiming 170hp but Shed is almost sure that you could only get that engine spec with an auto gearbox and this one is a manual so it’s over to you on that.
The last MOT was done in April and uncovered nothing more sinister than gummy headlamp lenses, a deteriorated front ARB dust cover, worn brake pads and some non-excessive movement in one front suspension arm bushing. Alfa suspension has famously been made from a solidified mix of mashed-up pasta shapes and panacotta for many years now so we shouldn’t be too surprised at the last one. The clutch was renewed 13,000 miles ago.
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