ALFA ROMEO GTV Test drive 1995 - 2003 compartment
Where the sky met with earth ...
The coupe from Pininfarina passed the rejuvenation course and received a new heart. The road under the clouds
The air compressed by six cylinders howled the thin glass, three hundred meters of concrete rushed under the wheels. The gaze narrowed into the pipe, at the end of which the reared cloth of the highway with an inclined arc goes to the left. Five seconds, push the horizon moved to the side and swam somewhere to the side. On the right is the chipper, heaven and thirty meters to the ground. The pulsating roar of the motor hits the ears, the steering wheel tees from the hands, the overload presses on the shoulders. Alfa-Romeo-GTV flies around the circle along the legendary track Lignotto, located on the roof of the former factory Fiat Corps in Turin ...
The body is tightly fixed in the profiled chair it has only two adjustments, but they are enough and, noteworthy, there is no temptation to constantly correct something. The landing is deep, the window is at the shoulder level. The hand with the accuracy of the metronome clicks the programs: the third-lobby, the fourth-sniff and again the third-fourth, the third-fourth. The main thing is to catch the wheel again before overloading, otherwise the left hand poured in the turn in the turn will pull him aside. And the steering wheel here is very sharp, less than three revolutions from the stop to the stop, so that at the speed of movement should be extremely accurate. It does not reach the V and VI transmissions, there is simply not enough space to accelerate to the appropriate speeds. The arrow of the tachometer rushes from five to seven thousand, the speedlet, according to two hundred, nods somewhere. The third-fourth
However, in calm mode, it is quite possible to go in a VI program at a speed of 50 km/h and even quite briskly accelerate without unnecessary switching a huge torque of a new 3.2-liter six allows us to do this. But if all 240 liters are needed. S., here turn to the ringing, driving the arrow of the tachometer in the very edge of the scale. In this mode, Alfa-Romeo-GTV exchange a hundred in 6.5 seconds and reaches a maximum speed of 255 km/h. Down with the roof!
In addition to a compartment with the GTV index, Alfa Romeo produces a double Rogster Spider with a soft folding top. Along with a 3.2-liter six, both cars are equipped with 4-cylinder engines of 2 liters. This is a 150-horsepower spark with two candles on the cylinder and a new JTS unit with a capacity of 165 liters. with. With direct fuel injection.
Makeup and not only Short Pete Stop to catch your breath and put thoughts in order. The sports coupe and the Alfa-Romeo Roadster have been developed in the Pinfarin studio and have been produced since 1994. This is not to say that the affairs of Italian automakers are brilliant, the change of the model is a matter of the future, so it has been decided to update the already produced GTV and spider.
The most noticeable change in appearance is a new nasal part with an enlarged bars of the radiator lining in the form of a traditional alpha shield, which now reaches almost to the lower spoiler.
The interior is also updated: a stylish central console under matte aluminum, it has three deep tubes with a clock, indicators of the amount of fuel and temperature. A little lower than three original regulators of the climate control system. There is an audio system with a compact disk player, four speakers and a subwoofer. And even the navigation system is a pity, it will be useless in Russia, where the machine should appear in the fall-winter.
In the layout, sports alpha-romeo are quite typical for our days: the motor is located in front, the front drive, the suspension is independent McExeson in the front and five-leafing behind. Modernized cars, in addition to new engines and gearboxes, received other chassis settings. The emphasis was made to increase the reliability of control and stability in high -speed modes, as well as a decrease in noise and vibrations, and improve comfort with ordinary urban driving.
For the most powerful version of inch, the wheel size was increased now on it set the 225/45 ZR17 tires. Naturally, a gentleman's set of safety tools: ABS, the EBD brake force distribution system, ASR anti -wings system and two front pillows.
To ride, not to carry The coupe fully corresponds to the passenger capacity formula 2+2 two full places in front and two children's behind. In the event of an extreme need, a couple of adults may squeeze, however, having crouched, they will not endure for a long time. There is even a trunk in the stern of the compartment, but since the space between the wheels is occupied by the elements of the suspension and the gas tank, its volume turned out to be very tiny 110 liters. You can, of course, sacrifice a spare wheel-boat wheel and carry a reprimatum kit instead, then the capacity of the luggage compartment will increase to 147 liters.
However, we will be objective machines such as Alfa-Romeo-GTV, they are not buying to carry something. They are bought to ride. Riding how to fly. On the border of the Earth and the sky
Yuri Nechetov, photo of the author
A source: Magazine "Limousine" [08/03]
