Italy
The Fiat 126 has finally ceased production after 20 years and has been replaced by the Cinquecento. Like the 126, the Cinquecento is a three-door entry-level hatchback with a competitive asking price and low running costs. Unlike its predecessor, the new offering has front-wheel drive and a front-mounted engine. And it is also a far more modern looking design than the 126. It carries over the 126's slow but economical 700cc engine, but also makes use of a 900cc unit which is capable of more than 80 mph.
Alfa Romeo has called time on 75 production after six years and replaced it with the all-new 155, a four-door sports saloon which is marketed as a competitively-priced and distinctive looking to a BMW 3-Series. The latest Alfa beats most of its rivals when it comes to value for money, and is at least a match when it comes to visual appeal and ride quality. But whether it can match the best of its competitors in terms of build quality, reliability and refinement is a different matter.
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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)
“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)
“the San Marco Library,
Whence turbulent Italy should draw
Delight in Art whose end is peace,
In logic and in natural law
By sucking at the dugs of Greece.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)