The Alfa Romeo 155 - A super Touring Icon

[@michaelquigley7208]

I’ve got an Alfa Romeo 155 V6 in dry storage 😊

[@WillItEverWorkAgain]

Awesome :)

[@danielrobertson3071]

Was there at Thruxton in 94. I have fond memories of that weekend, having rolled up in modded 75 3.0ltr 😉

[@WillItEverWorkAgain]

Closest I’ve come to that is driving to spa in my Nissan Silvia 😎

[@delahayenator]

The 155 was an Ercole Spada design, while the Delta was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro. Both incredible designers.

[@WillItEverWorkAgain]

Giugiaro is great, Giovanni Michelotti is also one of my favourites

[@delahayenator]

@@WillItEverWorkAgain yes Giugiaro is incredibly versatile. Michelotti designed beautiful cars too. Spada did some racecars for Zagato, a couple of Alfas like the TZ, but also cars like BMW E34 5 series

[@WillItEverWorkAgain]

Very cool! A couple of my friends have had E34s

[@delahayenator]

@@WillItEverWorkAgain if you like design background to cars check him out. Has some amazing car designs for sure you know.

[@WillItEverWorkAgain]

There’s some very cool stuff there

[@DYNANiK]

The livery on the thumbnail look soooooo god damn mmmmmmmmhhhhhh gooooood!!!!

[@luketaplin42]

What a fantastic video❤ Respect I loved watching this back in the day The 155DTM V6 was on a different level So look forward to your video on those cars I was working at a Alfa dealership in 94/95 so know this period well

[@WillItEverWorkAgain]

Thank you, it was a little before my time. The tapes were old when I had them but I always feel I was born in the wrong era!

[@donnied8127]

155Ti DTM was using PVR v6 engine "lifted" from Lancia Thema ;)

[@jct903]

@@donnied8127 The same PVR V6 as a Delorean??

[@donnied8127]

@@jct903 Only engine block was used and with a slight difference, the one in 155DTM Ti was revving @12k RPM ;)

[@donnied8127]

The rear wing for 155 Silverstone was literally from Alfa 33 and fitted the boot perfectly, and bear in mind 155 Silverstone with that rear wing edition was based on 1.8l 8v twin spark, while there was 2.0l 8v twin spark 143bhp, and then came in 1996 wide body cars with 16v t.spark Fiat engines. The stand-off lift kit was included if you wanted to fit it. My 155 Q4 came with the rear wing fitted by the dealer without the lift kit. For the record, 155 q4 was the first Alfa to come fitted with a Fiat engine.

[@AndrewNeilBaird]

I've got a stand off kit , or the spoiler spacers to be accurate. Bought it at Doune auto jumble around 22 years ago. But I've never owned a fiat or alfaromeo

[@benzinapaul7416]

The 164 2.0 Turbo with the 8V Lampredi Twin Cam Turbo from the Thema was the first Alfa with a Fiat/Lancia engine in 1987. It was a tax break small engine special for the Italian market and some othe southern european markets, after a couple of years it was replaced by the 164 2.0 V6 TB, a sleeved down version of the Busso V6

[@benzinapaul7416]

In the UK we also had wide body 155s with the 8V 1.8 'Nord' engine

[@donnied8127]

@@benzinapaul7416 I have never seen a widebody 155 with an 8v engine in the UK, could have been one one of those "chimera special edition series". And yes, 164 with 8v turbo, or Busso v6 2.0tb never came to UK officially.... I have known of one chap that had v6 2.0 tb Spider

[@benzinapaul7416]

@@donnied8127 I've owned a couple of GTV V6 TBs here in the UK, they are easier to tune than the NA 3.0/3.2 V6, 280bhp is easy to achive, the downside is the turbo does mute the Busso somewhat. With regard to the 155 1.8 8V TS with the Nord engine and the wide body, this was an official car and was sold alongside the Fiat derived 1.8 16V TS accross Europe and the UK, it was just a way to use up old engine stocks. I dealt in used Alfas in the 2000s up to the mid 2010s and had a couple pass through my hands. They were only available in 1995 and 1996. They do have a following as the Nord engine being chain driven is more reliable than the 16V although performance isn't as great.

[@DYNANiK]

PLEASE cover the ITC car from 1996, that car was so awesome!

[@jct903]

Excellent video - thanks so much for making this.

[@WillItEverWorkAgain]

Thank you 😊

[@brdllc]

Subscribed, love these videos on these touring cars.

[@WillItEverWorkAgain]

Thank you 😊

[@lateralg3169]

Good effort, well done.

[@WillItEverWorkAgain]

Thank you :)

[@geoffsokoll-oh1gq]

Funny thing about wings: the BMW 3.0CSL (aka the Batmobile) came with the wing in the boot.

[@WillItEverWorkAgain]

Funnily enough, my Porsche came with the wing in the boot. It wasn’t new though 😅

[@jorgepeixoto6162]

Alfa Romeo 😎👌

[@stevenfernando1842]

The original Delta was styled by Giugiaro. It was the second series that was styled by IDEA…. Wrong photo.

[@WillItEverWorkAgain]

Ahh thanks for that! I’m always up for learning :)

[@Zachnav]

Are you sure the FIA changed the BTCC rules, or was it TOCA?

[@WillItEverWorkAgain]

You could very well be right, I read FIA when I was doing research but it’s my first time doing something like this so you’ll have to bear with me. Thank you for you’re input 😊

[@Zachnav]

@WillItEverWorkAgain the framework for regulations such as Group A, B, C in the eighties was laid out by FISA (the forerunner to the FIA but the local regulations were set out by the individual championship regulatory bodies. Also, I think that whilst the aero kits were standard to road cars they did not to be actually fitted. I know that Renault Laguna road cars has the kit supplied in the boot of the car the customer had to ask the dealer to fit it or fit it themselves.

[@WillItEverWorkAgain]

Thanks for the correction, I’ll credit you in the next one

[@Zachnav]

@@WillItEverWorkAgain no need my friend.

[@CMgraffix]

DTM 155 on front cover the not the 155 BTCC car

[@WillItEverWorkAgain]

Yes I’m aware, it’s a cool picture though 😅