Alfa Romeo Sprint

The Alfa Romeo Sprint, first sold as the Alfasud Sprint, was a boxer engined coupe built by the Italian maker from 1976 to 1989 on the mechanical base of the Alfasud, with 116,552 units of the Alfasud Sprint and Sprint produced in total. Giorgetto Giugiaro designed it, giving a lower and more angular shape than the Alfasud and a hatchback style tail, and it was assembled with the Alfasud at the Pomigliano d Arco plant in southern Italy. It was presented to the press in September 1976 and shown at the Turin Motor Show that November. The first car used a 1,286 cc flat four of 76 PS with a five speed gearbox, and from May 1978 the 1.3 and 1.5 litre boxer engines of the Alfasud ti were offered. It was sold in Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and the Alfa Romeo GT later became its heir.