An Alfa Julchen with a top speed of 200 km/h.
The Giuletta Sprint was already produced from the beginning of 1954, but with smaller engines, internal type number 750, from autumn 1958 in no. 101.
Basically, a fast sports coupe was built at a low entry-level price to make it affordable to a larger circle of customers. With top speeds, the Sprint and Spider models reached 165 km/h and with Veloce engine 180 km/h. The Sprint Zagato (nicknamed "Brötchen"), whose body was made of aluminium and had a total weight of only 750 kg, with 2 double carburettors Weber 40 DCOE, even reached a proud 215 km/h from 1290 cc engine capacity.
Thus the Giuliettas were one of the fastest vehicles on the road at that time, at that time still a gap in the market, which was later increasingly copied by other car manufacturers.
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