Test Drive Alfa Romeo 159 since 2005 Sedan

Under the Alfa shield

Italians are special people. Only they can absorb pasta tons and not get fat, drinking kyanti buckets and do not get drunk, removed to remove the erotic and not roll to the vuality. Only they still have been permitted to wear fur rare animals called the army of Greenpisovs, sunglasses even in the premises called the requirements of etiquette and red jackets called the militant homophobes. Independence in tastes and disregard for trends allows Italians, according to Nikolai Fomenko, stay at the peak of fashion in everything - whether it is the production of shoes or cars. An example of fresh Apenninsky pisch - Alfa Romeo 159.
All Alfa Romeo cars that are supplied to the Russian market are equipped with heated front seats and washer injectors, a battery of high capacity, synthetic oil for operation at low temperatures in the gearbox and engine. Five stars are assessed by the founders of the European New Car Estimation Program (Euroncap) Safety Alfa Romeo 159. The total result of the crash tests of the model - 34 points is equal to the Fiat Croma indicator and slightly below the PEUGEOT 407 Coupe and 3 BMW received 35 points. At the testing of the frontal collision Alfa 159 received 15 points (94 percent), and during the side - 16 points (89 percent). The lowest passenger injuries were noted in the head and hips. The integrated low result of the 159th series received for the safety of pedestrians - only 9 points (25 percent). Focus In Russia, the technical genius beats over the improvement of the valve valve from the Friendship pipeline, the world continues to produce new amazing cars in the world. Some of them, thank God, continue to come to our bear corner. It's time for Alfa Romeo 159.
 
Here is the brief recommendation of this vehicle, in my opinion close in its class to the Absolute:
- It is ideal for a person energetic and aesthetically developed at the same time.
"This is a very fast and canceled managed machine, as it should be the subsidiary of the 156th Alpha, which won the European Championships Gabriele Tarquini and Nicola Larini.
- She is in moderation electrified and immensely beautiful, like most Italian things. Design from Centro Stile Alfa Romeo and ItalDesign - Higher Sample. The fountain of Georgetto Judjaro will not shine for a long time, and the pencil does not fade it - it is obvious.
- There is nothing superfluous in Alfa Romeo 159. All ergonomically, understandable and correctly. Sat down and drove.
Alpha - Capital! For me, the Italian car is synonymous with class. In general, in Italy there are no bad cars. Although kill. They are so good that we are not given to understand how good they are.
Motor 2.2 JTS - above praise. Working healthy heart is not noticeable - this is the norm. Engine operation either should not interfere with the rest of the car. It happens that the motor turns faster than the wheelbarrow can help. And then we often have angina, in the sense - the car in the wall and driver in the cardiocenter. The engine of this alpha, from which I did not notice the slightest failure, in all indicators corresponds to the body.
 
Under one to become a mechanical 6-speed box. I know that versions with this motor are available with a robotic box Seleasespeed. But this is already an excessiveness and junction. You can ride and needed on the usual handle. She has excellent synchronization. Even people, all their lives moving with the driver (will try to ride on their own), and the neither never make a mistake in choosing the correct transmission. Auxiliary systems (VDC coursework, anti-slip ASR and trigger Hill Holder) also place and immaculate. When they are activated, it is impossible to achieve nonsense from alpha. What is right. However, it is worth disconnecting the VDC, as madness starts right. And this is not absurd rabies, from which only dust post and wool end, and no drive. This is a real extreme, sport and pleasure in one bottle.
 
And this is especially great: even on the verge of Alfa Romeo 159, it leaves a sensation of a monolithic design. This is rarely found. Most often, the car is made in parts and different groups of creators, seeking compromises, and not the best solutions. Compromises will definitely come out of all the cracks on the road. I tried to ride this car on different coatings, including on ice. And nowhere had neither stupid jumps, nor lying, nor other than balobiness. The car obediently and easily stabilizes with the on, and with electronics turned off. This suggests that she is exceptional.
For the ride properties with Alpha in this class, nothing will be compared. What are we doing there? Treshka BMW? Pragmatics, which is and which is praised in the Bavarian car, turns into a set of lungs, but unpleasant sores. And, according to my feelings, the treshka seems to be harder.
Alfa Romeo 159 is capable of functioning in any modes. In self-preservation mode. With a mental attack on the side of a nuts user. In mode, I recently recently I was an athlete. In mode, this is the third car that my dad bought. Or - do not see what I am a girl, I know a lot in a car industry.
Yourself, beloved. I really do not know how and for which I could urge the 159th Alpha. For a little trunk, maybe? In which anything is possible can not be transported to the cottage. Well, except so. Indeed, for the economic needs of Alfa Romeo 159 is not suitable. Splash, dackets, contemptuous saliva. Teschins Mattresses will stay at home.
 
But the classic advertising phrase we have everything you need, and if we don't have something, then you do not need to be relevant for this car for all 100 percent. The pleasure is guaranteed from everything: from the physiognomy of the car, where the famous Alfov SCUDETTO shield seems to look like a mouth, to the most minor trifles in the cabin.
The quality of leather materials and plastic - just swell. No worse than in Audi or BMW. The obstacle on their occasion can only be mastered in London and settled Bentley and RR compatriots and Maratsatics, who were rejuving back in 1971. Contrary to the law of Murphy that the most necessary items are easily accessible, everything is at hand.
 
The landing is more convenient. As if all his life in this chair was sitting and soldered him in all corners. It is clear why this judjaro all runs: make us a car, make us a mug, spoon, ear chopstick or a night pot. The secret is simple: when something is being done just like for himself, it turns out very cool.
In this car it is clear, for what money is taken. The recipe for a cool thing is simple. As in that anecdote: Jews, do not spare welding. The creators of Alfa Romeo 159 did not bother where it really was necessary.
The most beautiful Alfa Romeo 159 should be a sports version of the TURISMO INTERNAZIONALE model, abbreviated - Alfa Romeo 159 Ti. His premiere is scheduled at the Geneva Motor Show. Alfa Romeo 159 with tuning package distinguishes sports kit, lowered by 20 mm suspension, 19-inch wheels with Brembo brakes and a special outflow tube. Sports interior with armchairs under an elastic figure, a panel of darkened aluminum, slices of leather on the steering wheel and the handle of the checkpoint, and also attached aluminum pedals. For the first time, the TURISMO INTERNAZIONALE package appeared on Alfa Romeo cars in 1963 - on Giulia Ti Super, and then on the legendary Alfasud Ti. The fastest Alfa Romeo 159 should be the GTA version, which will also appear this year. Alfa Romeo 159 GTA is equipped with a 3.2-liter V6 gasoline engine with two turbocharger. Approximate engine power will be about 400 liters. S.Nash Rasha. Chukchi made transplant transplant operations. Two days later, Chukchu flashed.
 
I immediately remember this anecdote when I tell me about the last unsuccessful approach of Alfa Romeo in Russia and about the fact that this car is not for our roads. It is not Alfa Romeo wine (like many other decent brands). It happened that the developed automotive industry is very far from our Rashi. And if our Rasha wants to see beautiful cars live, and not just read about them in reference books or to see in the transmissions of any car Senkevich, then our rush should build roads. And doing cars under our roads - this is a dead end. Tell me - under our people who have a psyche and with the skills of driving solid problems.
 
Such cars like Alfa Romeo, on which at least at the reception to Putin, at least to the Shabash Street Reisers in the bar Broken Horseshoe, even at Randevo with the girl, we need to develop taste. And the same, except for Mercedes, yes, there are nothing about ten and knew anything. The taste is having difficulty. The same Dolce & Gabbana had to come to us from China and settled first in the Petrovsko-Razumovsky market so that they were recognized. It seems to me that Drivers Alfa Romeo 159 are definitely people with taste. These are aestine types. Middle managers, years 30-35, in bright ties, reading kafku, other, not similar, in a word, to the rest of our sullen community.
These people in adulthood, for years to fifty, will ride the Ferrari. And they, of course, do not break their car on the English embankment in Nice as the last sucker. And their dissolve companions will never get sick. Because American scientists in the framework of the NASA program still established that from fast driving on Ferrari, the pigs do not happen.

Text Nikolay Fomenko, photos Andrei Danilov

In December last year, the international design competition was banned in Italian style (Design Italian Way), organized by Fiat Auto concern. In the competition - the purpose of which to find new ideas for future models Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Lancia - students of 8 design schools are taking part: European Institute of Design in Turin, Milan Polytechnic Institute, Detroit College, University of Art and Design in Coventry, Tokyo Institute Arts, Moscow State Art and Industrial University. Stroganova, National Design Institute (Ahmedabad) and University of Umea (Sweden). For Alfa Romeo cars, the competition participants received descriptions for three cars from which they can choose one for their project. This is a sports 2-3-seater compact car with a driving pleasure concept, an elegant car with a sports character, the future flagship of the Alfa Romeo model range, and a universal, comfortable sacrifice. The price range of future models is 25,000-35,000, 40,000-60,000 and 45,000-70,000 euros, respectively. In June, the jury of the competition is the head of the Fiat Fan Design Center Frank Stevenson and the head of the Alfa Romeo design center Wolfgang Egger - will choose three of the most interesting projects: each school has one for three brands. In the University of Stroganovsky, 9 people have already selected at the department of design vehicles, three of which will work on the model of the future Alfa Romeo.
 
Alfa Romeo 159 2.2 JTS
 
Gasoline engine, 4-cylinder, row
Working volume (cube cm) 2198
Power (hp at rpm) 185 at 6500
Moment (nm at rpm) 230 at 4500
Drive front
6-speed gearbox, mechanical
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4660/1828/1417
Wheel base (mm) 2700
Mass Curb (kg) 1490
Maximum speed (km / h) 222
Acceleration to 100 km / h (c) 8.8
Fuel consumption (medium, l / 100 km) 9.4
Car cost in Moscow 32 500

Autorev: I got a gasoline Alfa 159 2.2 JTS. In the fact that this motor develops 185 hp, it was still possible to believe. But believe that it was developed by the Italians, it is not easy. This is not alpha, and Opel! Addigiously smooth, without bursts and pickups, thrust in the entire turn range. True, there was some hint of Alfovsky sound, but it dissolves almost without residue in exemplary sound insulation. And I willingly believe Calbfel that the noise level in the cabin is lower than that of competitors - BMW, Audi and even Mercedes: With the most intensive acceleration, you can communicate without increasing the voices. And the aerodynamic noises do not get - even despite the huge and very comfortable! -- rear view mirrors. But is Alpha Is this? The steering is slightly modified, but the transfer ratio of the drive remains a record short (12.7: 1). However, if earlier the steering wheel from the stop before the stop did about two revolutions, now - without a small two and a half. But this is explained by the fact that the wake-up wheel arches allowed to turn the front wheels for a larger corner and, even despite the increased wheelbase, make a car very maneuverable: the diameter of the reversal is only 11.1 m. That's just the rim of the steering itself, it became uncomfortable. And with reactive action not all smoothly. Despite the fact that there was a classic hydraulicer, the steering wheel, to the detriment of informativeness, became too easy. And because in high-speed turns, the control sometimes becomes the search - you seek the trajectory by the method of trial and errors. But - a comfortable car! And rear passengers here became spacious. But is Alpha Is this?
CLAXSON: What are the 159th?
- Suspension is soft. The clutch is some kind of plasticine, Andrei Valigin, director of the Finnish firm Nordic Center and a large fan of sports cars. He long dreamed of trying alpha on the go and now the first began behind the wheel.
- On gas, at least reacts sharply?
- Yes, she does not go at all.
- Maybe because here is a four-wheel drive? - I suggested. - With engine 1.9 such a transmission is possible?
- No, here is an ordinary front-wheel drive. 4x4 is combined only with large motors with more than 200 forces.
- And how much in this basic, 1.9-liter?
- 160 horses.
- And they do not go?
- My Corolla 1.6 Rough! Try yourself.
Farewell, Alfa Romeo ... - I thought I thought on the first acceleration. The gasoline 4-cylinder engine calmly and smoothly spinned to limit revolutions. Second gear. Third. Transmission ratios in mechanical gearbox - long, as if in some French model for economical bourgeois. Trying to accelerate on the fifth and sixth gears - it's like lifting the sail of the yacht in the calm.
Business Vedomosti (Estonian Economic Weekly): The dynamics of the car is excellent, but the steering wheel seemed somewhat heavy, especially when moving through the city streets. To some extent, this is a natural consequence of 17-inch discs on which a bus shields are 215 mm wide. For our roads with potholes, such wheels are not too good, since the car constantly leads somewhere, and the direction of movement has to constantly adjust the heavy steering wheel. But when moving along a good highway, the driver can fully relax ... By car provided for a test drive, there was a 2.2-liter gasoline engine with an impressive torque. Since the soundproofing of the salon at the highest level, then during the trip, the tachometer arrow often noticed it, where she actually did not follow. With all due respect to ALFA ROMEO 159 it should be noted that the brakes were strange. I trial to reduce the speed, slightly reducing the pedal, but I do not notice due reaction from the car. Then I press the pedal deeper, and then the car slows down sharply. Still, it is better when the braking process is uniformly, as the brake pedal displaced. In short, the 159th there are shortcomings: the brakes are strange, the steering wheel is heavy, and the hatch of a rather large trunk is too narrow, and therefore stuffing things will be inconvenient there. But what will not forgive the car with such appearance as Alfa Romeo.
Top Gear: The presentation of the 159th Alfa was overshadowed by a skeptic attitude towards him from the English press. His very predecessor, 156th, suffered a shortage of quality and reliability. And the first 159th, which provided journalists, at the request of the company, were not finally ready. Now we took on the test already a completely brought car, and in it everything seems surprisingly reliable. But to argue that the first buyers will not express the opposite opinion in a few months, we do not take it. Nevertheless, along the way to improve quality Alfa, advanced. At the very least, our 159 1.9 JTDM never broke over a week, which he spent on Top Gear tests. Draw beautiful and original forms for very practical and simple sedans and hatchbacks - this is Alfa, he knew how much better than everyone. It turned out this time. Normal continuation of traditions of the 156th. Although, in truth, Judjaro did not have to correct anything - everything was fine. New makeup came to fit. Deep folds on the doors, narrow strips of the rear lights, triple headlights and triangular door handles - all this makes the car truly stylish ... So, we are awarding Alfa the highest score for appearance, although it has always been his strength. But the interiors can no longer say, and in the 159th improvements are also a bit. Despite the decent quality of the assembly, the materials are not too convincing. Our basic version in the TURISMO configuration was finished with a spindle of such texture and colors that we do not remember since most employees Top Gear went to short pants. And soft plastic, which is already five years old use all the uniaasian manufacturers, in appearance and quality was worse than the rest of the plastic in this test.
 
   

 

Source: "Autopilot"