1992 Alfa Romeo 164 S, 2nd Owner, Low Miles, Upgrades, Up To Date Maintainence on 2040-cars
Costa Mesa, California, United States
SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY PLEASE. CLEAN CAR HISTORY REPORT NO ACCIDENTS. CLEAR TITLE. Please read entire posting before purchasing/bidding/making an offer Relisted due to a missing in action buyer Rare 1992 164 S. I am the second owner. Lots of work done to the tune of $3K in the last year and a half including (timing belt, accessory belts, clutch, fluids flush, oil change, alignment and more that I cant remember right now). All work was performed by a reputable Alfa shop. Here is some of the highlights: *17 inch wheels (5x98 specific Alfa bolt pattern) with Brand new tires (225-45/17) with less than 200 miles on them. *B&G Red lowering springs. *After market retractable screen cd/mp3/usb/ipod/iphone/blue tooth/dvd player with remote *MB Quart front speaker Seprates *Hi Fonics Rear 6x9 speakers. *Interior is 9.5out of 10. Absolutely mint condition with no tears rips or fading. Smells like new Alfa leather. *No warning lights in dash. *Everything works (windows, sunroof, seats, cruise control, guages) *HVAC control unit/Stepper Motor- NO ISSUES whatsoever. *Rides very smooth and makes all the right noises. *Vey fast. Shifts are nice and tight. Revs to redline freely. *No cracks in the dash. *The infamous leather red stitched dash cover that tends to warp after being exposed to the sun for years has been also replaced with a new cover to match with red stitching as well. *New gray leather shift knob with red stitching on a lower shift lever. *The car Tracks incredibly well with the springs/wheels set up. *No issues with stock adjustable shocks as they function like they should with the auto/sport setting. *Clean Engine Bay. *Legal Tint *De Badged Trunk (I still have the Badges and they are included in sale) *Clean Trunk *Original Spare and Jack Included *NO RUST I am selling for financial reasons ONLY. The cars is an absolute joy to drive and toss around and will keep up with the best of the best out there on the road but with a style that is unmistakably Italian and in a manner only an ALFA can achieve. Please feel free to contact me with any other questions if and only if you are genuinely interested in purchasing the car. I will entertain reasonable offers. No ridiculous offers please. This is my last personally owned Alfa that I am parting with. If you are looking for a project Alfa, this in not it. It is not perfect as it is a 22 year old vehicle. However it is a fine example of a well maintained Alfa that needs very little to be perfect. I will assist with shipping arrangements as much as I can but it remains the sole responsibility of the purchaser along with shipping charges. Also, I will not hesitate to drive the car across country if need be. European Headlight and taillights along with New Alfa Romeo Logo mat and New Dash Mat will be included with the Buy It Now price. Good Luck |
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2015 Alfa Romeo 4C First Drive [w/video]
Mon, Jun 16 2014The dissonance between first look and first wheel turn was jarring. Alfa Romeo had chosen a suitably hip venue in which to showcase the coupe that will mark the brand's honest-to-God return to the US market - a graffiti-festooned warehouse housing a boutique furniture company in San Francisco's Mission District. The curvilinear sports car proved a lovely stylistic counterpoint to its concrete and metal backdrop while feeling perfectly synced with the eye-watering square-footage prices of the environs. Where the young, rich, beautiful people gather, the 2015 Alfa Romeo 4C will be a star. And wherever they drive, expect things to get pretty loud. No sooner had I doubled over, dropped into the driver's seat, and fired to life the Alfa's utterly raucous little 1.7-liter engine, did the 'symphony' of the 4C begin. An introductory note of an inevitable chin scrape as I pulled out of the hipster parking lot and into the street was quickly followed by the uncivilized racket of the engine warming up, with only wafer-thin glass to filter the hubbub just behind my head. At a cold idle, the sound isn't unlike what I'd imagine it would be like to live inside of a Volkswagen TDI engine bay. Thankfully, as traffic cleared and The City's streets turned swiftly into undulating coastal roads, the experiential delta between heartthrob looks and project-car manners started to shrink. Unlike the last Alfas to be sold en masse on our shores, this is no beautiful boulevardier. What the 4C is, however, is hot hell's own driver's car. On public backroads, the Alfa is nothing short of a scalpel. Last year, newly minted Infiniti PR maestro (and former Autoblog European editor) Matt Davis had the cheek to call the 4C a "baby 458." That's an awfully powerful endorsement for a $55k featherweight rocking a mid-mounted turbo four, but the setting of the bar so high wasn't without just cause. Despite gaining a few hundred pounds worth of thicker carbon fiber, heavier US-spec airbags, standard AC and audio equipment and the like, the handsome Alfa coupe really does live up to its Italian sports car roots. With respect to the punchy engine, it's that carbon fiber tub that really sets the stage for this coupe to handle and perform so brilliantly. Added weight noted, let us pause for a moment to note that the 4C still tips the scales at an improbable 2,465 pounds.
Ralph Gilles talks minivans, Millennials, mobility, and kissing Alfa Romeos
Fri, Jan 13 2017We sat down with Ralph Gilles, the global head of design for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, at the 2017 Detroit Auto Show. The veteran stylist has worked for the company for 25 years, and oversees the design of all of the products in the FCA portfolio – everything from mobility pods to Maseratis. This serves Gilles just fine, as his personal automotive interests are exceedingly diverse. The FCA stand was unusually quiet (until Vice President Joe Biden stopped by at the end of our time there) and Gilles was willing to weigh in on a wide range of subjects. Autoblog: We're seeing all of these autonomous mobility pods like Portal being presented at auto shows like CES or NAIAS, but we're not seeing any adoption of this kind of small vehicle in the market. What's your perspective on our pod-like autonomous future versus our truck-centric present? Ralph Gilles: Obviously I pay attention to the industry as much as your readers and yourself, and everyone has a take on the future. We had a debate, we could have done a supercar or something for pure sex appeal [ apparently that's also in the works], but we chose something practical, to really look at the future in a different perspective. We have these Millennials, a huge swath of people born between 1982 and 2004, and the oldest ones are turning 35 right about now, and a lot of them are having families later in life but when they have them they have a little more buying power, so it makes for an interesting cocktail. The one stipulation we had on the Portal project was that everyone had to be a Millennial to be on the team. So that excluded me, I had more of a coach role on the team. And to your point, the Portal in its current state as you see it is not going to be on the road tomorrow. But there's a lot of ideas, a lot of connectivity ideas, a lot of styling ideas, even lighting and technologies that will absolutely find their way into vehicles in the next few years. AB: Being a Detroiter, all of this attention we've had recently in Vegas, CES – I heard that they're maybe going to be running the show at the same time next year. Do you feel a little protective of the Detroit Show? RG: Yeah, it's something to watch. I hope it's not an aggressive thing on their part, by moving the shows on top of each other. They're both important shows. CES, I've been going to for the last five years, and it's changing. There's a lot more automotive content, but there are a lot more start-ups too, and it's interesting to watch.
Sergio Marchionne wants Alfa Romeo back in F1
Mon, Feb 15 2016It's been decades since Alfa Romeo has competed in Formula One. But if Sergio Marchionne gets his way, it could make a comeback soon. Now we know what you might be thinking: Alfa Romeo and Ferrari are both part of the same Fiat Chrysler Automobiles group, so why would Marchionne want two brands competing against each other in such a costly racing series? Because technically speaking, Ferrari is no longer part of FCA, that's why. They share mostly the same owners and are run by the same person (Marchionne), but the Prancing Horse marque recently split off from its former parent company and floated its own shares on the stock market. That makes it a separate entity, and also means that FCA no longer has a direct link to F1. But its chief executive clearly thinks the investment is worthwhile. Marchionne has been known to state grandiose plans, but he's also been known to carry through on many of them. So the next question is, if the plan goes through, just how Alfa Romeo might participate in F1? Some automakers (like Mercedes) field their own teams, others (like Honda) compete as engine suppliers, and still others (like Infiniti) as branding partners. Alfa could go either route, but Marchionne told Italy's La Gazzetta dello Sport that "Alfa Romeo is able to make itself a chassis, and it is able to make engines." Of course, that doesn't mean that it necessarily will. It could outsource a chassis from a constructor like Dallara, which is located near the same Varano circuit that Alfa uses regularly. It could also source an engine from its former sister company: Marchionne floated the possibility of starting a separate engine program in Maranello for Red Bull when it was hunting for a new engine partner, and could ostensibly do the same for Alfa Romeo. "In order to re-establish itself as a sport brand, Alfa Romeo can and must consider the possibility of return to race in Formula 1," said Marchionne. "How? Probably in a collaboration with Ferrari." Alfa Romeo first competed in F1 in the early 1950s, winning the world championship two years running in 1950 with Giuseppe Farina (scion of Pininfarina) and 1951 with Juan Manuel Fangio. It then dropped out, only to resurface as a full constructor team between 1979 and 1985, with limited results. It also supplied engines to an array of teams in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s.