Pretentious Alfa Romeo Junior Coming

Alfa Romeo is planning to revive one model that is currently long ago off-production – Alfa Romeo Junior famous in 1970s. But as expected coming Junior will be 3-door sporty hatchback model unlike the previous Junior-coupe and positioned as Mini Cooper S competitor.

New Alfa Romeo Junior will use Fiat Grande Punto platform though its design promises nothing similar to Fiat’s model. Again, the engine line was borrowed from Fiat, both – gasoline and diesel. In top version Alfa Romeo Junior will have 1.8 supercharged engine with 230 h/p which in fact is used on Alfa Romeo GT model only in normal aspiration variant.

With new Junor launching Alfa Romeo company intends to reach annual sales rates of 300 000 totally and 60 000 – 80 000 cars of Junior in particular. But experts state that Alfa plans seem too ambitious in the light of 2004 annual sales rate of 153 000 and the 2005’s even less at 126 000 cars totally.