Italy
The "Type Four" platform has spawned its third car in the shape of the Fiat Croma, which went into production early this year. It is a large five-door hatchback similar in size to the Ford Granada, and its underpinnings have been around for the year beneath the Saab 9000 and Lancia Thema. The final car on this platform - an Alfa Romeo model - is due on sale next year.
To celebrate its 75th anniversary, Alfa Romeo has launched a 75 range to compete with the likes of the BMW 3 Series.
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Famous quotes containing the word italy:
“For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery—back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Uncle Matthew’s four years in France and Italy between 1914 and 1918 had given him no great opinion of foreigners. “Frogs,” he would say, “are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.””
—Nancy Mitford (1904–1973)