5 Things You Didn't Know About The Alfa Romeo Giulietta

[@punchperformances]

Simply marvellous!!!!!

[@punchperformances]

Ohhh joder simplemente maravillosos!!!! A tomar por culo!!!!!!! Forza alfa!!!!

[@brunotulliani]

I will and always love Alfa. If I had the money i would collect Alfas. Another great episode.

[@Matteo_Licata]

Oh yes, I’d do the same! Hope to get the Spider I’ve long promised myself

[@lepszejnazwyniebylo]

I love your channel. What I would love even more, is long thorough episodes.

[@Matteo_Licata]

Thank you very much for your appreciation. Producing a longer-form video, maybe a 30-min documentary is indeed one of my aspirations. But this channel is a one-man band, and showing up every week would be impossible if I made 15-30 minutes videos. But I'll make a documentary, one day.

[@through_changes]

Well I didn't know all these things about the original gulietta. I know what a cool guy is the one who designed the interior of the modern one! And what cool stories he gives us, every Friday!

[@Matteo_Licata]

Thank you!!! :)

[@des9655]

Being in the AROC, St Louis, I get to see some beautiful Alfa's one guy has a Sprint Speciale, absolutely gorgeous in person, Red with black interior. I don't get to close to it because I'm afraid of drooling on it! But I'm happy with my 1986 spider veloce! Cheers!

[@Matteo_Licata]

A Spider like yours is my dream car, the Alfa I want as a gift to myself sooner or later. But yes, the Giulietta SS is a sculpture, a car that must be incredibly satisfying to wash by hand, with all those curves...

[@atomdent]

Love to see Roadster Life in my feed , fun to share with friends and co-workers ,no controversy unless they don't like Fiat,Lancia, Alphas or Citroën and then who needs em!

[@Pat_RickX]

A Giulietta in Red 505 is soo amazing. Nice video, Matteo.

[@Matteo_Licata]

Couldn't agree more! Thank you!

[@paulrobinson3649]

Thank you for introducing me to Carrozeria Colli. I am not familiar with their work and feel some research is required. Many thanks.

[@Matteo_Licata]

My pleasure! Colli was a Milanese outfit that was pretty close to Alfa Romeo in the 50s and 60s, but closed down shortly after

[@JoostHillemans]

I thought you could not surprise me anymore with facts on the Giulietta, but wow, you did! Never knew about the facelift proposal by Bertone! Happy they did not continue that though…. And the name Diruttore for the air spoiler on the SS was also new for me. Keep up the good work!!

[@Matteo_Licata]

Thank you very much :) So much has been said about the Giulietta that I indeed had to dig a bit deeper to put together these five bits of trivia... And I'm glad you appreciated it!

[@mikebell2750]

I am never disappointed with this channel, always interesting cars and cool, obscure information about them that only true fans of the brand would know.

[@Matteo_Licata]

Thank you very much!!!

[@GreasyFingers]

I’m convinced that in the 50ies and 60ies, no other nation understood the system “car” better than Italy. This includes large scale manufacturers, design bureaus, style, racing, suppliers and universities. And this is said by … a German! 😆

[@studiocalder818]

It's amazing what was born then from a state factory, Italian in addition! 😁

[@studiocalder818]

I was so in love with the Giulietta, and above all with the Sprint since I was a little lkid. So that I tried to buy one when I got my driving license in 1980, at 18 years old. But I was a student and Sprint was starting to interest collectors and, even though it was still cheap, I didn't get there on my own with the summer jobs, and my father was against me in the he acquired what he considered to be a dangerously unreliable decrepit sports car. I managed to buy my first Alfa in 1983, a '69 GtJ super exploited by an elderly man who stopped driving: it cost only 500,000 lire (like 300 euros), the price that the scrapyard gave him; but he loved his GTJ and he was waiting for me giving me 2 boxes of spare parts, 8 tires and a full tank of petrol, haha! I still have today that GtJ

[@Matteo_Licata]

That's a great story. It seems incredible that the classic Alfas we love so much once were just scrap... But that's how things were. So cool that you've managed to keep your GTj all these years, well done!

[@reneblanche3573]

Another lovely video! I'm always looking forward to the next one. Thank you for your great work!

[@Matteo_Licata]

So nice of you, thank you very much for your appreciation!

[@Texmotodad]

Simply beautiful!

[@Matteo_Licata]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@shankarbalan3813]

Fantastic beautiful cars. Always loved Alfa all my life.

[@Matteo_Licata]

Same here! :)

[@shankarbalan3813]

@@Matteo_Licata my all time favourite always will be the one driven by Edward Fox in Day of the Jackal….The convertible giulia or giulietta spider….1963…

[@TheSpohalloran]

Hello Matteo, love every episode and all their wonderful detail - thank you. Extraordinary research on this one. Question about the Giulietta Berlina restyle, wouldn't Giugiaro have to have had a hand in this?

[@Matteo_Licata]

Yes, I'd say so. Giugiaro was Bertone's designer between 1960 and 1965, so that 1963 Giulietta restyling must have been his work, too. Thank you very much for your appreciation!

[@joseantonioarandagarcia9966]

Nice video! The one-off berlina restyling prototype looked really nice, love it!

[@Matteo_Licata]

It indeed looked promising. But I can see why they dropped it, it wouldn't have been worthwhile as an investment

[@studiocalder818]

it looks like a typical British brand restyling: a brand new era for the front fitted in an older body

[@deepakhazareesingh44]

The 'Ministeriale' was quite an item!!! 😁but I have some reservations about the facelift of Bertone. Pity though, that the giardinetta version did not make it.

[@DanielCurti]

What a beautiful car!

[@Matteo_Licata]

Indeed :)

[@SOLSOUNDS_]

Very interesting! I have a 2016 Giulietta so this was great to see its history.

[@Matteo_Licata]

So you'll enjoy this video then, about my role in the Giulietta's design: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZ2lZJenpcd9htU

[@SOLSOUNDS_]

@@Matteo_Licata wow will check it out now!

[@nlpnt]

The proposed facelift is one rare case where the required changes for the US market would've improved it - the square headlights would've been illegal so a version with four round ones would've been needed right off, and probably would've filtered over to the European-market models.

[@Matteo_Licata]

Totally agree: four round headlights would have looked better

[@aldostefanini1392]

Bella 👌👌👌 My good friend Dr Swanepoel had a bottle green Sprint speciale. What a beautiful car it was. Old ALFA'S are getting very scarce here in South Africa. Grazia Mille. Greetings from South Africa

[@Matteo_Licata]

Wow, that must have been a fantastic car. Do you know what happened to it afterwards?

[@aldostefanini1392]

@@Matteo_Licata he sold it in the 70s and bought a Austin healy Le mans. He had plenty cars over those years especially Alfa. While he was studying that time he had his own mechanic shop and worked on people's Ferrari and Alfa. He was very well known that time. This Giulieta of his he modified it to give peak performance. He meticulously spent the most time on the cylinder head gas flowing it. And cut the cams. The Webers he jetted it to the best they could be. The car could Rev up to 9000. The crank and flywheel was also balanced and lightened. He coul get max speed of 150mph out of it leaving all the American big V8 behind in those days. I know his Austin healy is in the Rupert museum now in Cape Town as it was bought by them 2 owner after and it was restored to original as that specific car the LE MANS was very scarce

[@Matteo_Licata]

Wow, what a story! Thank tou for sharing with me

[@Curva_West]

Wow, another Lucano involved in naming an Alfa. Sinisgalli with Giulietta and the naming competition for Duetto….both from Basilicata! 🍀💪

[@minopino3]

There is also the fact, that the people who ordered the giulietta berlina had to wait so long, that alfa give them the sprint . And the costumers where very happy with the sprint.

[@graemelliott3942]

Thank You! That’s very interesting! I knew #2 but not the others 4. I read recently another strange Alfa topic. That Alfa collaborated with Renault and made the Dauphine Alfa Romeo. Please tell us more!

[@JoostHillemans]

And also the Renault 4 after that!

[@Matteo_Licata]

Yes indeed... The Italian Renaults are a topic I've often thought about covering, but I'm waiting for the chance to film a car to do so

[@studiocalder818]

They were fruits of interesting state collaborations (both brands were publicly owned)

[@russthomson6168]

oh,I would prefer a van called, Romeo

[@Matteo_Licata]

I'd quite like to get one, too. It was produced for a long time, but survivors today are quite thin on the ground

[@raufsahin334]

Beautiful giuliettas ...

[@superduperluigi676]

It wouldn't be an Alfa without an extremely rare wagon version

[@studiocalder818]

Haha! That's true! "de grande classe" commentery

[@nrs6956]

Viva Alfa Romeo!

[@Rafagafanhotobra]

The Bertone concept is slightly similar to the Giulias from Giugiaro. Inspirations, maybe?

[@Matteo_Licata]

That's unsurprising, given Giugiaro was Bertone's designer back then, and he drew every project the firm tackled... Including the stillborn Giulietta restyling.

[@lucabattioli4796]

La prima auto del mio caro povero papà 🙏🙏☮️☮️♥️💓❤️😍😍

[@ccrider8483]

0:20 "Front Drive", this must be a mistake. The new version built in the 2000s, was/is front drive, but the 50s-60s version, I don't think so.

[@TheQuirkyGarage1999]

he said "fun to drive"

[@ccrider8483]

@@TheQuirkyGarage1999 OK, that makes a lot more sense. I guess my hearing is not so good. 😕

[@jolenemonaghan2021]

I know it doesn't compare but i have a 64 giulietta in etna black i think she is beautiful.

[@studiocalder818]

Bellissima

[@Random-nf7qb]

Why do you say wagon and not estate?

[@Matteo_Licata]

Because "estate" is a typically British term, and I'm afraid people from other countries may not understand it.

[@Random-nf7qb]

@@Matteo_Licata everything is perfectly understandable. Europe uses mainly Kombi or Combi.