Alfa Romeo 166

The Alfa Romeo 166 (Type 936) was an executive car that Alfa Romeo produced from 1996 to June 2007, a four-door saloon with a front engine and front-wheel drive that replaced the 164. Centro Stile Alfa Romeo designed it under Walter de Silva, and it was facelifted in 2003. Its underpinnings came from the Lancia Kappa, but the suspension was reworked, with wishbones at the front and a multi-link setup at the rear, and the interior was designed afresh. Petrol engines at launch were a 2.0-litre Twin Spark four-cylinder, 2.5 and 3.0-litre V6s and a 2.0-litre turbocharged V6, alongside a 2.4-litre five-cylinder common-rail turbodiesel praised for its refinement. The top Super models carried a MOMO leather interior, 17 inch alloy wheels and xenon headlamps as options.