Alfa Romeo first implemented the Giulietta identify to its automobiles in 1954, generating that legendary generation thru 1965. The identify was once revived on a wild-looking sedan for the 1977-1985 length, simply ahead of Fiat bought the company, and next returned on a compact hatchback for the 2011 model year. These days’s Junkyard Scrapyard To find is a type of first-year third-gen Giuliettas, present in a self-service yard in Yorkshire, England.
Copart-owned U-Remove-It has two shops in Admirable Britain, one in England and the alternative in Scotland. I’ve documented slightly a couple of not-available-on-our-side-of-the-water automobiles discovered right through my travel over there, together with a 2005 Smart ForFour, a 2002 BMW 320td, a 2005 Vauxhall Tigra TwinTop, a 2008 Mitsubishi i, a 2007 Mitsubishi Colt, a 2006 Peugeot 307 CC, a 2006 Hyundai Matrix, a 2006 Ford StreetKa, a 2000 Honda HR-V, a 1994 Rover 620 Si, a 2010 Peugeot Bipper, a 2009 Alfa Romeo Brera S, a 2010 Citroën C4 Picasso, a 2005 MG ZT 190 and a 1963 Bentley S3.
This time of Giulietta stayed in production through 2020, later which it was once changed by way of a Jeep Compass-related crossover that you can buy in the United States today.
This automotive’s closest U.S.-market relative was once the 2013-2016 Dodge Dart, which was once constructed on a widened model of the Giulietta platform; the 2015-2017 Chrysler 200 lived on a longer-wheelbase variation. The current Chrysler Pacifica nonetheless rides on a descendant of that chassis.
Alfa Romeo controlled to get the Giulietta into a starring role in Fast & Furious 6, again in 2013.
There was once communicate within the early 2010s that the unutilized Giulietta might be sold in the United States, however the ones stories grew to become out to top nowhere. In lieu, the 4C ended up being the first new Alfa Romeo available here for the reason that terminating Spider Veloces and 164s have been offered as 1995 fashions.
I couldn’t get the bonnet perceivable in this automotive, briefly shedding endurance because of palms frozen forged by way of Yorkshire January climate, so we’ll simply have to take a position concerning the engine underneath. Giulietta consumers within the U.Ok. marketplace may just get the ’11 with certainly one of 8 engine alternatives, starting from the bottom 1.4 MultiAir straight-four petrol-burner and its 120 horsepower the entire approach as much as a screaming 1.75-liter straight-four with 235 horses. Fiat Multijet diesels in 1.6- and a couple of.0-liter mode have been on tap as smartly.
This one has the bottom six-speed handbook, which Dart patrons may just get bolted into their cars (few did so).
Now not simplest did Ecu 2011 Giulietta patrons get a gratifyingly immense checklist of engine alternatives, there have been 8 other alloy wheel sorts (and one Il Cheapo hubcap) to make a choice from.
This automotive has some of the two 16-inch alloy sorts.
A lovely and sensible gadget that competed effectively towards the Volkswagen Golfing in its year, however which by no means stood a lot practical anticipation of coming to our shores (and was once squeezed out of relevance by way of the coming of the SUV craze in Europe). It did stick round lengthy enough quantity to get a few facelifts, anyway.
Proper-hand-drive impaired automobiles aren’t significance a lot at the alternative facet of the Channel (Malta is the nearest drive-on-the-left nation out of doors of the British Isles, adopted by way of Cyprus and next Kenya), so this one depreciated extra briefly than its LHD brethren.
Uma Therman: “I am freedom. I am strength. I am technology. I am Giulietta. Without heart, we would be mere machines“. There was once a battle-of-the-sexes version with Chris Isaak soundtrack as well. I believe I choose the higher-production-value Kylie Minogue Ford StreetKa commercial, if I’m fair.
It’s no longer a automotive. It’s an Alfa Romeo! We’re just about sure no person ever mentioned that concerning the Dodge Dart.