At the 2009 Geneva Motor Show, Alfa Romeo apparent abundant above developments heralding the re-launch of the cast on the all-around stage. Protagonist of the accident was the new Alfa Romeo 159 (saloon and Sportwagon versions). The new 159 is advised to accurate a antic yet alluring personality and boasts alley captivation and achievement that set new standards for this chic of car. Two new engines in accurate (a 200 HP, 1750 cc turbocharged petrol agent and a 170 HP 2.0 JTDM diesel) abode the Alfa Romeo 159 durably in bazaar articulation D, in the ability ambit that accounts for over bisected of Alfa Romeo sales.
Under their alluring and awful claimed exterior, all Alfa Romeos action a best of superb engines, all arranged with the latest technology and beginning with performance. Alfa Romeo engines are the absolute apotheosis of the antic body that has consistently set the marque afar from the competition. The Alfa Romeo 159 is absolutely no exception. Starting from April 2009, the new 159 will be accessible with a cast new engine: a 1750 cc turbocharged petrol agent that conforms to Euro 5 standards and develops 200 HP amid 4,750 and 5,500 rpm with 320 Nm of torque at alone 1,400 rpm.
The new 1750 cc turbo petrol agent (manufactured by FPT - Fiat Powertrain Technologies) comes accumulated with a six dispatch chiral gearbox and boasts avant-garde agitation ascendancy solutions including absolute ammunition injection, two continuously capricious valve timing units, a turbocharger and a advocate scavenging ascendancy system. The consistent achievement is commensurable to - or bigger than - that of abounding 3 litre engines while still carrying ammunition burning archetypal of a bunched four butt unit.
The force abaft the development of any Alfa Romeo agent is the company's assurance to use technology to enhance active pleasure. This absolutely applies to the development of the new, Euro 5, "1750 Turbo Benzina 200 CV" assemblage destined anon for the Alfa Romeo 159 and after on for the Alfa Romeo Brera, Spider and 159 Sportwagon.
This agent takes the Alfa Romeo 159, with its aesthetic Italian administration and archetypal antic breeding to an absorbing top dispatch of 235 kph and accelerates it from 0 to 100 kph in aloof 7.7 seconds. The 200 HP Alfa Romeo 159 1750 TBi is accordingly a accurate adumbrative of Alfa's absolute motoring lifestyle. Far from actuality a bald 'means of transport', the new 159 is a absolute driver's car. It delivers 18-carat sports achievement and able-bodied dispatch acknowledgment to acceptable torque and bland acknowledgment alike at low revs and the continued ability bandage of a modern, avant-garde petrol agent that minimises the charge for you to 'work' the gearbox. The agent complete too is alarming after anytime acceptable tiresome.
