Alfa Romeo Giulia

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Alfa Romeo Giulia

Giulia 1300 GTj (1972)

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The Alfa Romeo Giulia is an Alfa Romeo automobile. Alfa was the first to put a powerful engine in a light-weight car for mainstream production.^{[citation needed]} The Giulia weighed about 1000 kg or 2200 pounds. The car was equipped with a 1.6-liter, 100 bhp (75 kW) engine and a 5-speed manual transmission. This made for a top speed of 170 km/h (106 mph) back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) took about 12 seconds.

The styling was quite straight forward, but with a great amount of detail. The engine bay, cabin and boot were all square shaped. But the grill, the rooflines and details on the bonnet and boot made for an integrated design from bumper to bumper. It was also a car with an particularly low drag coefficient ^[1] for that era. For example, the drag coefficient of the Giulia was lower than that of a Porsche 911^[2] from the same period.

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^ Alfa Romeo Giulia on www.CarsFromItaly.net: It nevertheless had excellent aerodynamics with a drag coefficient of just 0.33.
^ The Complete History of 911 on www.autozine.org: Styling: 911 preserved the general shape of 356, but with slightly better aerodynamics - 0.381 vs 0.40.