A 1908 Darracq 8 / 10 HP assembled by Alfa Romeo's predecessor, Darracq Italiana

For 1931, he decided to concentrate fully on racing cars and agreed to race for Alfa Romeo's factory team, Alfa Corse.

During 1933, Nuvolari left the team for Maserati after becoming frustrated with the Alfa Romeo's performance.

At the Coppa Acerbo, Alfa Romeo's new 12C-37 car proved to be slow and unreliable.

Caliri designed the M184, the team's prototype Formula One car ( intended as a dual purpose design for the new Formula 3000 ) around Alfa Romeo's V8 turbocharged engine but when engineer Carlo Chiti left Alfa Romeo to found Motori Moderni, Minardi became the only customer for his new V6 engine design.

Here, 30 cars were built, including a development car tested with Alfa Romeo's 2. 5-litre V6 engine and a nearly complete Mark 2 prototype of the same.

* The flat-four engines in Alfa Romeo's Alfasud, Sprint, 33 and early versions of the 145.

Initially the factory in Maranello was a base not only for Scuderia Ferrari but also for Auto Avio Costruzioni, the machine tool manufacturing business started by Enzo to tide the company over while Alfa Romeo's ban on Enzo Ferrari making cars bearing the Ferrari name was in force.

*" Just for Today " was used as the backing music for the ' Best in Britain ' video clip the Alfa Romeo's website for the Prodrive-tuned Brera S coupe ( breras. co. uk ) which featured the car driving around Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire, UK.

Some new transmissions ( Alfa Romeo's Selespeed gearbox and BMW's Sequential Manual Gearbox ( SMG ) for example ) are conventional manual transmissions with a computerized control mechanism.

* Alfa Romeo's limited slip differential

Other makers known for their grille styling include Bugatti's horse-collar, BMW's split kidney, Rover's chrome " teeth ", Mitsubishi's forward swept, fighter aircraft-style grilles for their cars 2008 Lancer and Lancer Evo X, Dodge's cross bar, Alfa Romeo's six-bar shield, Volvo's slash bar, Audi's relatively new, so-called single-frame grille, Pontiac's split horizontal grille and an egg-crate grille on late-generation Plymouths.

Toulo de Graffenried returned to Alfa Romeo's four-car line up, in place of Paul Pietsch, having raced for Enrico Platé in France and Germany.

When Benetton became Alfa Romeo's team sponsor in 1984, Baldi lost his drive, and joined the underfunded Spirit team until 1985.

On October 9, 1980, Takashi Ishihara of Nissan and Ettore Massacesi of Alfa Romeo's then-parent, state-owned IRI signed a memorandum in Tokyo for increased cooperation between their two firms, and revealed their intent to create a joint production venture called AR. N. A.

As Jones moved inside to pass the Italian entering the hairpin at the end of the straight, Giacomelli turned in and Jones struck the Alfa Romeo's rear wheel, bending the steering arm on the Williams and putting Jones out of the race.

The Vittorio Jano designed 8C was Alfa Romeo's primary racing engine from its introduction in 1931 to its retirement in 1939.

Thanks to Alfa Romeo's Arna deal with Nissan a few years earlier, the Italian political resistance against Japanese companies was minimized and DeTomaso encountered no political difficulties.

After graduation, he taught briefly before joining Alfa Romeo's ' Servizio Esperimenze Principali ' unit under Ing.

The GT is positioned as a sports car in Alfa Romeo's range, and sits alongside the Grand Tourer Brera ( which is based on the newer mid-size Alfa 159 sedan / saloon car ).

In the same year Alfa Romeo, one of the leading players in the sport, stated that they might not participate in further Grands Prix, leaving only two other major teams, Ferrari and a temporarily uncompetitive Maserati, leading the race organisers of Formula One to wonder who would take Alfa Romeo's place.

Originally, its petrol engines were the 1242 cc DOHC 16 valve engine also powering the Punto and Lancia Ypsilon with an output of combined with a 6 speed manual gearbox, a 103 PS, 1. 6 L with a 5 speed manual gearbox ( The 1. 6 was also available with a 6 speed manual gearbox, but these are quite rare ) a 133 PS, 1. 8 L, again with a 5 speed manual gearbox and a, 5 cylinder, 2. 4 L engine combined with Fiat's Selespeed 5 speed semi-automatic gearbox, also used on the Alfa Romeo 147.

Starting from 1999 five-speed Selespeed sequential transmission came as an option to 2. 0 litre Twin Spark version and four-speed automatic Q-System to 2. 5 litre V6 version, In 1998 Alfa Romeo also offered for sale the 156 Group N version for the track.

* Selespeed – Alfa Romeo, Fiat

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The year after, BP and Alfa Group merged all their oil and gas interests into a 50 / 50 joint venture, in spite of BP's legal and financial losses in the Yugraneft disputes since 1999.

* 1999 – Euromoney ranks Alfa Bank The Best Bank in Russia for the third straight year ; Global Finance also names Alfa Bank The Best Russian Bank ; despite the financial crisis 14 new retail branches and offices open across Russia ;

Hungry Lucy is included in numerous compilation releases, including Elektrauma 5 from Triton Records in 1999, The Ultimate Electro-Industrial Compilation from Alfa Matrix in 2002, and Noir-Smooth Female Trip Hop from Dancing Ferret Discs in 2003.

The leading Maserati and Alfa Romeo drivers decided not to compete but Bugatti was well represented.

Ferrari prepared, and successfully raced, various drivers in Alfa Romeo cars until 1938, when he was hired by Alfa Romeo to head their motor racing department.

In 1941, Alfa Romeo was confiscated by the fascist government of Benito Mussolini as part of the Axis Powers ' war effort.

The MX-5 was conceived as a small roadster – with light weight and minimal mechanical complexity limited only by legal and safety requirements ; technologically modern, but a philosophically direct descendant of small British and Italian roadsters of the 1960s such as the Triumph Spitfire, MG MGB, Fiat 124 Sport Spider, Alfa Romeo Spider and Lotus Elan.

The Alfa Romeo Spider was the only comparable volume model in production at the time of the MX-5's launch.

The company that became Alfa Romeo was founded as Società Anonima Italiana Darracq ( SAID ) in 1906 by the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq, with some Italian investors.

In 1920, the name of the company was changed to Alfa Romeo with the Torpedo 20-30 HP becoming the first car to be badged as such.

In 1928 Nicola Romeo left, with Alfa going broke after defense contracts ended, and at the end of 1932 Alfa Romeo was rescued by Benito Mussolini's government, which then had effective control.

The first racing car was made in 1913, three years after the foundation of the company, and Alfa Romeo won the inaugural world championship for Grand Prix cars in 1925.

The company that became Alfa Romeo was founded as Società Anonima Italiana Darracq ( SAID ) in 1906 by the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq, with some Italian investors.

It was also in 1925 that Nuvolari was asked by Alfa Romeo to have a trial in their Grand Prix car.

The season was the only one in which Nuvolari regularly had one of the fastest cars, the Alfa Romeo P3.

The 1933 season was the first year of a two year hiatus for the European Championship, and saw Alfa Romeo stop their official involvement in Grand Prix racing.

Although Nuvolari started 1938 as an Alfa Romeo driver, a split fuel tank in the first race of the season at Pau was enough for him to walk out on the team, critical of the poor workmanship that was exhibited.

Benetton Group entered Formula One as a sponsor of Tyrrell in, then Alfa Romeo in ; this arrangement was extended to both Alfa and Toleman in.

This performance was kept secret until two days before the show but when the scene magazine Side-Line and the band's label Alfa Matrix launched the news, tickets were quickly sold out.

After a one year pause the race was back in 1935 with Tazio Nuvolari dominating in an Alfa Romeo P3 entered by Scuderia Ferrari.

The Joint Army / Navy Phonetic Alphabet was a radio alphabet developed in 1941 and was used by all branches of the United States military until the promulgation of the ICAO spelling alphabet ( Alfa, Bravo ) in 1956, which replaced it.

During 1982, Mussolini released a pop music album of romantic songs under the title Amore on Alfa Records ; the album was released only in Japan and has since become something of a collectors item .< ref name = Orrore >