Re: [alfa] [Alfa] market flops

["Dean" <tessiedog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard, just thought you might like to know that there are still quite a
few sprints in OZ. Most of these are of the later model fitted with the 1.7
because as you said the early cars rusted worse than the early suds. Also
some people have fitted quad cam 1.7lt engines to suds and sprints with
great results. The sprint body was also turned into a mid engined sports car
by a company in queesland. Unfortunalty powered by holdens 308 V8 (a
pathetic engine). They only sold about 12 however the cars where fast and I
have see some still on the roads today.
Cheers
Dean
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Lane <srlane@domain.elided>
To: alfa digest <alfa-digest@domain.elided>
Date: Thursday, 1 April 2004 2:26
Subject: [alfa] [Alfa] market flops


>John Hertzman commented on Peter Webb's commentary that..
>>>the Arna and the Alfa 6 as the two largest flops in Alfa history,
>
>I remember when living in the UK at that time that the Alfa-6 went down in
>history as the lowest-ever volume selling car in the UK for a single year -
7
>cars in total for 12 months. It was a long-running joke and always
re-emerged
>in the auto-press as a "How not to market a car" story. The Alfetta (sedan)
>sold pretty well at the time and the magazines wondered why Alfa thought
they
>needed a version with longer overhangs. I did, however, once see an Alfa-6
on
>London's North Circular road. What are the chances...?
>
>The Arna I remember being shocked to see all over the place, though not as
>frequently as its Datsun Cherry half-brother. Purely anecdotal evidence but
>definitely not a flop on the scale of the Alfa-6.
>
>A great car rarely talked about on the Digest was the Alfasud Sprint -
usually
>known as a "Sprint Veloce" in the UK and not to be confused with the
version of
>the Alfetta GT in the USA. Just a great looking little coupe that sounded
great
>too - sadly they rusted away and are very rare on the UK roads now. The
Alfasud
>hatchback predated the 1st Golf/Rabbit by a few months, if they hadn't
rusted
>then Alfa could be as big as VW now...(dreaming on..).
>
>-Richard
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