Alfa Romeo Giulietta (1954)

The Alfa Romeo Giulietta of 1954 to 1965 was a family of cars built under the internal type numbers 750 and 101. It began with the Giulietta Sprint, a 2+2 coupe styled by Franco Scaglione at Bertone and shown at the 1954 Turin Motor Show, and grew to include the four-door Berlina saloon of 1955, the Spider, the Sprint Speciale and the aluminium-bodied Sprint Zagato. All of them used unibody construction with a front engine and rear-wheel drive, powered by the 1,290 cc Alfa Romeo Twin Cam straight-four with an aluminium block and double overhead camshafts. It was the marque's first successful car in the 1.3 litre class, and 177,690 were built, most of them as Berlina, Sprint or Spider, before the larger-engined Giulia, introduced in 1962, succeeded it.