SERVICES (ITALY)
 

The Alfa 159 Sportwagon range offers all customers, even the most demanding, a choice between different features and devices, as well as a wide range of unique financial and rental formulae.

The new way to enjoy the Alfa 159 Sportwagon

Financial Services have devised a number of complete new financial formulae that combine loans and added value services and accessories chosen to reflect the specific features of the new model. Below we describe the many financial rental solutions proposed by Financial services in the main European countries, designed to meet customers’ specific demands.

ALFA PIU'

To mark the launch of the 159 saloon, Sava – a company that specialises in financial products for the Alfa Romeo dealer network, and market leader in its field – has developed the new flexible ‘ALFA PIU’’ marketing system for Italy jointly with Alfa Romeo. Obviously, with the Alfa 159 Sportwagon, customers can still enjoy a constantly new car, only paying for its actual use: a flexible down payment from 0 to 50% of the selling price, 24 or 36 small instalments and the advantage of the Guaranteed Future Value. At the end of the contract, they can choose one of 3 options: to replace the car and purchase a new one, to keep it and pay the Final Residual Instalment, or to return it having only paid for the actual use.

Leasing, ‘long-term’ rental and ‘instalment loans’

The Alfa 159 Sportwagon is the ideal car for businessmen, professional people and the self-employed. Fiat Auto Financial Services have therefore created a range of formulae that are tailor-made for these customers on the major European markets. First of all, ‘leasing’, which allows them to use the car without owning it, and without investing any capital (correct planning of income and outlay), and to choose the duration of the contract (from 24 to 60 months), the down payment and the flexible value of the final instalment.
 

The ‘long-term rental’ formula on the other hand meets the needs of companies and professional people who wish to use and enjoy only the advantages of the Alfa 159 Sportwagon. Long-term rental means they have one interlocutor, the rental company, that relieves them of all the formalities related to ownership of the car (road tax, insurance, ordinary and extraordinary maintenance, roadside assistance). For the Italian market, Savarent has introduced new insurance services that protect driving licences from the inconvenience of the partial/total subtraction of points or the withdrawal/suspension of the licence, for example ‘S.O.S. licence’, a policy that envisages the payment of a daily rate/reimbursement in the event of the suspension or withdrawal of the licence. And it is also possible to purchase an Alfa 159 Sportwagon with an ‘instalment loan’, varying in length from 12 to 72 months, combined with flexible insurance cover for the driver and the car.

Credit card and infomobility services

In Italy, numerous services are also offered in a single credit card, which is completely free for Alfa 159 Sportwagon customers and offers numerous advantages: up to Euro 1,500 of credit for purchases in 25 million POS all over the world, Euro 1,500 of credit at privileged conditions for purchases and service at authorised Alfa Romeo workshops, no commission on fuel supplies, flexible repayment and 24 hours roadside assistance.

The credit card offers the Targa Programme free of charge, the accumulation system that adds value to purchases all over the world, entitling the cardholder to a bonus of 1% to 15% of the sum spent. The Bonus can be used as a discount on the purchase of cars and services. And finally, on request, the Alfa 159 Sportwagon can be fitted with a satellite radio navigator that incorporates bCONNECT infomobility services, which were designed to put technology at the driver’s service, making car travel more comfortable and easier. Just by pressing the special button the driver can connect to a toll-free number, using the GPS/GSM network, to talk with an operator, a real personal assistant ready to respond to his requests in his own language. For example, he may use the Drive Me service to find the address or telephone number of a private individual or company, or find out about traffic conditions on the entire Italian and foreign motorway network, or receive medical advice and online roadside assistance 24 hours a day.