Alfa Romeo 1900

The Alfa Romeo 1900 was an automobile produced by the Italian maker from 1950 until 1959 and designed by Orazio Satta. It mattered to the company as the marque first car built entirely on a production line and its first production car without a separate chassis, and it was also the first Alfa Romeo offered with left hand drive. It was introduced at the 1950 Paris Motor Show with a 1,884 cc four cylinder twin cam engine of 90 hp, in two door or four door form, and was sold under the slogan the family car that wins races. Later versions included the short wheelbase 1900C, the 1900 TI and the larger engined Super models. Coachbuilders such as Touring, Pinin Farina and Zagato rebodied the chassis, and 21,304 were built at Milan, 17,390 of them saloons.