Autodelta will be well represented at the Auto Italia ‘Spring Italian Car Day’ which takes place at Brooklands tomorrow.

The very strong line-up from Europe’s leading Alfa Romeo design and tuning house, will be headlined by the four high-performance models which earlier this month returned from the inaugural ‘European Tour 2005’. They will be joined at Brooklands by an Alfa 147, clothed in the all-new ‘Autodelta Sportline GT’ body styling kit, which will b making its public debut at the event. Inspired by the gorgeous looks of the new Alfa GT Coupe, the ‘Sportline GT’ package aims to offer a timely enhancement for the popular and evergreen Alfa 147.

While the Autodelta GT Super and 147 GTA AM and 147 GTA AM Super will take centre stage as part of the ‘European Tour 2005’ presentation, the firm’s other bespoke model, the Autodelta 156 GTA AM, will also be on show. Completing the line-up at Brooklands will be a number of turbocharged J10 and J11 models, as well as a newly supercharged J10. These are performance cars which help to cement firmly Autodelta’s long-standing position at the leading edge of Alfa Romeo power and dynamic enhancement.

Auto Italia's Brooklands ‘Spring Italian Car Day’ is this year being held on Saturday April 30th. This annual feast of Italian machinery is well known for its displays of rare and interesting Italian cars and motorcycles, and there will be, as usual, plenty of action to see (and hear) on the infamous Test Hill.

Autodelta European Tour 2005

At 6am on Tuesday 29th March 2005 four cars set off from Autodelta’s London HQ on a 2,500 mile journey across Europe to the ‘My Special Car Show’ in Rimini, Italy. The tour passed though Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Italy during its hectic seven day schedule. Highlights of the event included tackling the sharp twists and turns of the famous Vernasca ‘Silver Flag’ hillclimb, an excursion to the Imola Grand Prix circuit, racing virtually into the skies ‘en route’ to the tiny mountaintop principality of San Marino, demonstrating the Autodelta cars at Basle in Switzerland, and a guided tour around the Maserati factory in Modena.

Participating in the convoy was the brand new 400bhp Autodelta 147 GTA AM Super, a 328bhp Autodelta 147 GTA AM 3.7, the 320bhp Autodelta GT Super, and, adding a little bit of ‘spice’, as well as offering hints of the future, a Maserati GranSport. Now, a little less than a month after the four cars returned from their arduous journey, they will be reunited during the Auto Italia ‘Spring Italian Car Day’.

Autodelta 147 GTA AM Super (400bhp)

Tomorrow will mark the ‘official’ public debut of the new Autodelta 147 GTA AM Super. This supercharger-enhanced car now offers an amazing 400bhp through the installation of a highly advanced and compact Rotrex supercharger.
 

Already reveling in its title as the ‘world’s fastest hot hatch’, Autodelta wanted to stretch the 147 GTA AM’s performance envelope a step further, and at the same time pay tribute to Alfa’s classic V6 engine, which will be phased out later this year.

Further changes to the ‘stock’ Autodelta 147 GTA AM model include revised frontal aerodynamics required to feed more air to the new intercooler installation, and a new suspension package which is necessary to cope with the additional power now available.

This stunning new car, which was only finished just days before the ‘European Tour 2005’ drew strong attention throughout the event, and is expected to be a popular attraction at Brooklands. 

Autodelta Sportline 147 GT

Autodelta will use the occasion of the Auto Italia ‘Spring Italian Car Day’ to launch their latest body styling enhancement package, the ‘Sportline 147 GT’. Offering a fresh new look for the popular Alfa 147, it blends in the highly regarded styling characteristics of the new Bertone-designed Alfa GT Coupe, which has already been judged a visual success.

“The Alfa GT has won a ton of style awards during its first year,” comments Autodelta boss Jano Djelalian. “We were keen to present a fresh new styling update option for the Alfa 147, and incorporating the GTs highly rated looks seems the obvious route to travel down. We think that the ‘Sportline GT’ kit takes nothing away from the 147’s charm, but updates it carefully and enhances its appeal.”

Autodelta Russia

Jano has just arrived back from a visit to Moscow where he has been overseeing the installation of the new Rotrex supercharger kit by their local agent, AlfaRacing, to an Alfa Romeo 156 GTA AM.

Russia is a market which is rapidly growing in importance to Autodelta, and this week’s activity is the just latest in a long line of performance upgrades carried out specifically for the Russian market. “We now have quite a number of our tubocharged cars running on Russian roads,” reports Jano, “some of which have now passed the 40,000km mark since the conversions were carried out. With the demanding nature of many of the country’s roads, the extremes of climatic conditions which can see temperatures drop as low as minus thirty degrees centigrade during the winter, coupled with the challenging nature of the ‘local’ petrol, we are constantly able to gather invaluable feedback and data from our local agent.”