A journey of discovery of a car that for many people should not have been produced.
In 1983 a sedan of just under 4 metres broke onto the market, which had none of the classic lines we were used to designed by "ateliers" like Pininfarina, Bertone, Touring, the Milanese company's own Style Centre.
But it was a real Alfa.

Completely designed by Alfa Romeo, from the chassis to the mechanics, it shared only some of the details of the Nissan Cherry, the line, the rear suspension and the dashboard, but for everyone it was a scandal, a resounding mistake, which nobody felt the need.

Created at the behest of the Alfa Romeo management, first of all the CEO Corrado Innocenti, who even gave it its name, to increase and saturate Pomigliano's production capacity (called in to produce the mechanics, at least 60 thousand more engines per year) and to support the Christian Democrat political electorate of the then national secretary of the party, Ciriaco De Mita, building a factory in Pratola Serra in the province of Avellino (his native land) decreed, on the contrary, the bankruptcy of the company itself.

Andrea Vecchi