Ferrari To Develop V-6, V-8 Engines for Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Lancia

[pierre_samanni]

Group synergies anyone? Sounds like good news to me.

Ferrari To Develop V-6, V-8 Engines for Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Lancia

[cannotstop]

Great idea.

Here is to hoping they will reintroduce the Busso V6 with a new camless head, individual TBs and same mounting points

[73GTVJim]

It'll be great if it happens.

[Shant Ole]

This is great news. Finally Alfas will have that racing blood again

[michaelb]

From the article

We love Ferraris, but they aren’t known for reliability

The journalist obviously never watched Formula 1 during the Schumacher years.

[Shant Ole]

Originally Posted by michaelb

From the article

The journalist obviously never watched Formula 1 during the Schumacher years.

[HaydnW]

Originally Posted by 73gtvjim

it'll be great if it happens.

+1

[ajs178]

Can you imagine a Ferrari-sourced 450 bhp twin turbo V6 in the Alfa 4C GTA??

[Shant Ole]

That will fly! (Regarding the weight of the car)

[Shant Ole]

Alfa has to make a car to compete with BMW's M class category cars, Audi's S's and Mercedes' AMG's

[trashbat]

Originally Posted by Shant Ole

Alfa has to make a car to compete with BMW's M class category cars, Audi's S's and Mercedes' AMG's

That's what Maserati are for, no?

[Shant Ole]

Originally Posted by trashbat

That's what Maserati are for, no?

Yes but Maseratis are a lot more expensive than BMW M's and Audi S's. Mercedes though ok all of their AMG cars are a lot more expensive. Also Maseratis are bigger cars. Im talking about 3-series, A3's, A4's etc categories.
Though Alfa should have such cars too, not only make small cars (like now). They should have a car in such a category

[GTA_Nigel]

Wow, a big shift if it happens (Pentastar V6 was all we had). Great news if true. Big "if" though.....

[trashbat]

Originally Posted by Shant Ole

Yes but Maseratis are a lot more expensive than BMW M's and Audi S's. Mercedes though ok all of their AMG cars are a lot more expensive. Also Maseratis are bigger cars. Im talking about 3-series, A3's, A4's etc categories.
Though Alfa should have such cars too, not only make small cars (like now). They should have a car in such a category

It appears you can buy a Maser GT or QP for £82k and an M5 for £73k, so it's that kind of territory, although I agree to an extent. I think FGA are ready to broaden Maserati further down the price range too, so I think that their presence is part of the reason we're not seeing certain Alfas, e.g. the 166, GTAs etc...

[Shant Ole]

Maybe. Lets just wait a little and see what happens. It might also just be rumors though. Alfa keeps announcing things and then dont do anything. We will only see in some years time i guess

[alan Q4+33]

Originally Posted by cannotstop

Great idea.

Here is to hoping they will reintroduce the Busso V6 with a new camless head, individual TBs and same mounting points

I see what you did there

[PR]

I dont wish to put a dampener on this, but on the investor plan there is no mention of these new engines. Now if Ferrari are developing them for themselves, that would be a different matter....

[trashbat]

Originally Posted by PR

I dont wish to put a dampener on this, but on the investor plan there is no mention of these new engines. Now if Ferrari are developing them for themselves, that would be a different matter....

Would it be there? There's some subtlety as Ferrari aren't part of FGA.

[PR]

Well Ferrari are going to develop more efficient engines, smaller turbos wouldnt be out of the question...

[Lambrate FS]

There will be two new Maserati saloons a mid 3-5 series car and the Quattroporte replacement.

[Scudetto]

i would love a technical whizz to talk me through the similarities and differences between the Alfa V6, and the Dino V6; their noise, vigour and wail, have often made me wonder if they share any technical or conceptual bloodlines.

[GTA_Nigel]

Originally Posted by PR

I dont wish to put a dampener on this, but on the investor plan there is no mention of these new engines. Now if Ferrari are developing them for themselves, that would be a different matter....

The investor plan is about as much use as service schedule for a GTA - you can't believe anything on it and it is subject to huge change! For example, there has been no mention of the 4C on any investor plan prior to its announcement but it seems to be going ahead. And stuff that is announced gets deferred/dropped. They pretty much make things up as they go.

Cheers,

Nigel

[Shant Ole]

The Italians are best known on changing their minds daily