Alfa Romeo 75

The Alfa Romeo 75 (Type 161, 162B), sold in North America as the Milano, was a compact executive car that Alfa Romeo produced from 1985 to 1992. Introduced in May 1985 to replace the Giulietta and named for the company's 75th anniversary, it had a wedge-shaped body designed by Ermanno Cressoni, head of Centro Stile Alfa Romeo. A transaxle layout, with the five-speed gearbox and clutch mounted at the rear beside the differential, balanced its weight almost perfectly front to rear, and it used a torsion bar front suspension and a de Dion tube at the rear. Engines ranged from four-cylinder petrol units and a VM Motori turbodiesel to 2.5 and 3.0 litre V6 engines, and a turbocharged 1.8 arrived in 1986. About 386,767 were built, and it was the last model released before Fiat took control of Alfa Romeo.