Italy
Alfa Romeo 164 production has finally ceased after 11 years. Its successor is the 166, a svelte-looking saloon which competes directly with the BMW 5 Series. It promises to be a class-leading executive car in terms of style and driver appeal, though whether its quality is up to class standards is another matter. But with the confidence that Alfa Romeo is building better quality cars, the Italians could finally have a match for their German counterparts.
Read more about this topic: 1998 In Motoring
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)
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)
“Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand ... borders upon insanity and absurdity—or at least is reminiscent of childhood.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)