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Giulia - four weeks to the big reveal

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#1 ·
looking forward to this! :cool:
 
#6 ·
rough Translation:

CASSINO (FR)

Probably you will not be called Giulia. Meanwhile in Cassino it was born the first car of the new model Alfa Romeo, ready for the presentation of June 24 at the Museum of Alfa Arese.

Last Friday the car was completed - the red color chosen, according to initial rumors -. Yesterday the trial on the reels. This is the first of a series of eight sedans. After submission to Arese, will all be on display at Expo 2015.

The start actual production, with the ramping up of production lines and possible new hires, along the lines of what has already happened in Melfi, there will presumably from the month of September. Ten days ago, Fiat Chrysler has signed with the trade unions (all, including Fiom, albeit at a separate table) agreement for the one-year extension of the interventions of extraordinary layoff for the more than 4 thousand employees of Cassino.

In recent weeks we are setting up the lines in view of the start of new productions, Fca not made official the amount of investments in the pole Lazio, but should reach the billion euro, in line with the investment made in Melfi. Today in Cassino produces the Alfa Romeo Giulietta: 380 cars per day, down from last year, while the market expects the new models.

The pole of Cassino will therefore be the center from which the basis for the business plan to relaunch Alfa Romeo announced by Sergio Marchionne about a year ago. The new sedan of the snake and Juliet should alongside a mini suv Alfa Romeo, expected for the first half of 2016. The SUV Alfa Romeo, however, may be concerned the plant in Mirafiori. But the plan Alfa Romeo - eight new models by 2018 - could play a fundamental role Pomigliano, where today are produced Panda. The first was the establishment of the new FCA, the first to have absorbed the dictates of the World Class Manufacturing, might, near the end of the cycle Panda, accommodate new products to brand Alfa Romeo.

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#8 ·
My thoughts exactly. :evil:

More precisely, I was thinking "I need to get my S60 to last another 3 years, then I might be able to switch to a used Giulia... on which early prod issues have been solved." :smoker:

Then my follow-up thought was "Well there will be used Jaguar XEs for sale at that point too". Giulia better be good!!!
 
#9 ·
I guess that RHD versions would be slightly behind in terms of the schedule, probably arriving here early 2016. By which time I'll just have less than 3 years to go with this car before I can consider getting one. Ironically, that is exactly the same length of time I thought I'd be waiting for this model to arrive when I bought my then new Ti in late 2008! At least it should be on the market by then.



...............but you never know with Alfa!
 
#10 ·
Full marks to AR for seemingly keeping wraps on the design - I think it genuinely will be a proper launch.

On a purely selfish note I still harbour hopes that they'll make a late name change, just because the availability of a new Giulia will make searching for parts for the original Giulia much harder on internet searches.

And I just realised that (I think) this will be the first new Giulia launched since my Berlina in 1967, might take mine down to the dealers at UK launch just to reflect on that and get a photo next to a new one.
 
#22 ·
That was provisional until Furioso won a public competition but as Worldcarfans said at the launch
"Whether this logo will actually be featured on the new Alfa MiTo remains questionable though, after all Alfa's 'naming the new Junior' contest resulted in the Furiosa nameplate to take top honors beating Agea, Enos, Everson, Fira, Milo, Mod, Nevo, Solea, Sparvo, Velvetta and Ventura. A contest which didn't even mention the eventual Mi(lan)To(rino) name."
 
#24 ·
giulietta is a too big name. 5 syllables giulia, 4 syllables. and both names not easy to pronounce. 100 is too simple.
I would go for a shorter name like modena, milano, torino, any italian city easy to say or a 3 number code. milano and junior would be nice names for the giulietta and mito.
 
#31 · (Edited)
Sadly, yes.

I have heard Giulietta pronounced as Goolie-etta

Veloce as Vel-o-see.

Food-wise, prosciutto as Pro-skewtio.

The 'c' as 'che' and 'che' as 'c' can fail to translate.

I think also maybe to some it'll seem strange/confusing that the smaller car (Giulietta) has a longer name than the bigger car (Giulia), unless you understand the '-etta' thing.

Personally, I'd love to see the Alfetta name revived, but I do wonder whether the fleet market - in part comprised of photocopier sales men pushing to flog an extra paper tray - would recognise the significance of names like Giulia, Giulietta and Alfetta, or whether they would find the names way too flowery in a world of A4s, 3-Series and C-Classes.
 
#32 ·
The problem is that the other ranges are more well defined.

BMW -

1 series - loads of variations but accepted as the smallest BMW
2 series - again loads of new variation but slightly bigger than a 1 series
3 series - bigger still
4 series - coupe of the 3
And so on

It's the same with Audi and Mercedes - probably a German thing :lol:

Having full on names can lose the meaning unless you know.

If you asked an African tribesman which was bigger, a corsa, Astra or insignia how would they know?
 
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