GTP Cool Wall: 1992-1998 Alfa Romeo 155

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1992-1998 Alfa Romeo 155

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1992-1998 Alfa Romeo 155 nominated by @Liquid

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Body Style: 4-door saloon
Engines: 1.7 L I4 8V TS
1.8L I4 8V TS
2.0L I4 8V TS
1.6L I4 16V TS
1.8L I4 16V TS
2.0L I4 16V TS
2.0L I4 16V Turbo
2.5L V6 12V
2.0L I4 TD
2.5L I4 VM 425 OHV TD
Power: 115-186 hp
Weight: 2635–3153 lbs / 1195–1430 kg
Transmission: 5-speed manual, 5-speed automatic
Drivetrain: Front-engine, front wheel drive / front-engine, four wheel drive (Q4 model only)
Additional Information: 192,618 models were produced over its 6 year lifespan.
Used extensively in European touring car racing in both Class I DTM and Class II supertouring.
The four-wheel drive model's drivetrain was lifted from the Lancia Delta Integrale.​

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Wish they were sold here. I would have loved to have been able to buy one and then hate it for 90% of the time I lived with it. Always sounded like a pretty charming thing, and the styling has aged a lot better than a lot of contemporary cars in the class (perhaps because it looked a bit "dated" at the time).
 
Apart from British Touring Car pedigree, not really that memorable a car.

V6 brings it to Meh.
 
Not too bad. DTM is cool, but post-Giulia 1600 Alfa? Not really.

Meh.
 
This car, to me, is Italy on wheels. Especially at its shabbiest, there is a nonchalant coolness to it, as well as a sense that everyone else is just trying too hard. A run-down 155 is the embodiment of the dolce-far-niente lifestyle of rural Southern Europe. It is the taxicab ferrying locals between mountainside hamlets; the farmers ride to the market where he sells fresh produce on a cool morning; the pale blue patrol car crawling through a dormant settlement beneath the baking sun. It may not convey this attitude as well as a beat-up Fiat 500 or Lancia Y10, but I feel it comes very close.

The performance models are unfortunately collector material, but I still have to give the 155 a solid cool.
 
Whilst the race versions where icnonic, the road car was very bland, not as good looking as the 156.

im going to say meh.
 
Somehow the 155 pulls off being boxy and looking good at the same time. I kind of have a thing with 90's Italian cars, anyway.

Cool.
The87Dodge
but wish the performance models had more HP.

Low meh.
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A car doesn't need to have have plenty horsepower to be cool, you know.
 
It's incredible how they managed to make something that looks so much like an Alfa 75 look so good.

But a non-sporting model with basic early 90s black plastic bumpers is only a little cooler than a Passat, or even a Vectra of the time.
 
I want to say cool, but it isn't.
The later wider bodied models look quite nice.
Overall .... Meh!
 
I've always loved these and it's for some reason my favorite Alfa.

SZ.
 
Not quite as cool as a 156, but box-tastic styling, great four and six-cylinder engines, and a bald Italian racing driver make it a very high cool.
 

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