Photos and details of Alfa Romeo’s Giulietta were released recently. Alfa Romeo, a Fiat subsidiary, brings the Giulietta to a long line of Alfas before it. Fiat said that the car will arrive in the United States in 2011.
But before you pin all your hopes on this detail, Fiat chairman Sergio Marchionne has said at the big Chrysler press conference in November 2009 that there’s actually little hope of that happening. He said that it has 2012 sales estimates for the Alfa but that it isn’t much. Marchionne said that Alfa would have to make a case for itself in the US. What’s sure for now is that the Giulietta is the first car to build on Fiat’s new compact architecture. It will also underpin a range of future compact and midsize cars, including Chryslers and Dodges.
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