Alfa Romeo 156

The Alfa Romeo 156, Type 932, is a compact executive car that replaced the 155 and was introduced at the 1997 Frankfurt Motor Show. It won the 1998 European Car of the Year award. It was sold as a saloon, a Sportwagon estate and the Crosswagon crossover, with Twin Spark petrol, JTD turbodiesel and Busso V6 engines, and was revised in 2002 and 2003. Cars were assembled at Pomigliano d Arco in Italy and, for Asia-Pacific markets, at a General Motors plant in Rayong, Thailand. The saloon left Europe late in 2005 and the Q4 Crosswagon ran to the end of 2007, after 673,435 units made between 1996 and 2007. The 159 replaced it.