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Car of the Day: August 26, 2015; Majorette '86 Alfa Romeo Milano / 75
Topic Started: Aug 26 2015, 01:12 AM (555 Views)
Dean-o-mite
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Today's car of the day is Majorette's 1986 Alfa Romeo Milano / 75.


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The Alfa Romeo 75, sold in North America as the Milano, is a compact executive car produced by the Italian automaker Alfa Romeo between 1985 and 1992. The 75 was commercially quite successful: in only three years, 236,907 cars were produced, and by the end of production in 1992, around 386,767 had been built. The Alfa Romeo 75 was the last model released before Alfa Romeo was acquired by Fiat. (The Alfa Romeo 164 was the last model developed independently.) The 75 was introduced in May 1985 to replace the Giulietta (with which it shared many components), and was named to celebrate Alfa's 75th year of production. The body, designed by head of Alfa Romeo Centro Stile Ermanno Cressoni, was styled in a striking wedge shape, tapering at the front with square headlights and a matching grille.



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For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: Alfa Romeo Milano / Alfa Romeo 75


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This Majorette Alfa Romeo has been a favorite of mine since childhood. Well, not this one, which is an upgraded replacement for the one I used and abused as a kid. My favorite Alfa Romeo to date, is the 164 sedan from 1988-1997, which has never been replicated in small scale, and as much as I wish and hope that someday, someone will make one, I am aware that realistically, it is a completely forgotten car for the most part. So with that, this Milano / 75 has acted as a substitute for many years.


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The 75 featured some unusual technical features, most notably the fact that it was almost perfectly balanced from front to rear. This was achieved by using transaxle schema - mounting the standard five-speed gearbox in the rear connected to the rear differential (rear-wheel drive). The front suspension was a torsion bar and shock absorber combination and the rear an expensive de Dion tube assembled with shock absorbers; these designs were intended to optimize the car's handling; moreover the rear brake discs were fitted at the center of the rear axle, near the gearbox-differential group. The engine crankshaft was bolted directly to the two-segment driveshaft which ran the length of the underside from the engine block to the gearbox, and rotated at the speed of the engine. The shaft segments were joined with elastomeric 'doughnuts' to prevent vibration and engine/gearbox damage. The 2.0 L Twin Spark and the 3.0 Litre V6 were equipped with limited slip differential. The 75 featured a then-advanced dashboard-mounted diagnostic computer, called Alfa Romeo Control, capable of monitoring the engine systems and alerting the drivers of potential faults. The 75 engine range at launch featured four-cylinder 1.6, 1.8 and 2.0 liter petrol carbureted engines, a 2.0 liter intercooled turbodiesel made by VM Motori, and a 2.5 liter fuel injected V6.



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pjedsel
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:toy: Another goodie from Majorette. Nice looking little Alfa -opening doors and a tow hook and Majo always had a nice variety of trailers to go behind their cars!
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:thumbup: Juan Approves!
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cody6268
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Didn't even know Majorette did an Alfa Romeo!

Looks great, especially in red!

Another I hope to find eventually.
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Looks like a fun little sedan for a kid. The opening doors were a special bonus to me when I was a kid (a couple of decades before you... ) because when they were open they became WINGS! The thing I remember most about it when it first came out was it's styling quirk of having the black beltline molding take a sudden 10 degree bend toward the heavens right behind the back door. I apologize in advance for offending any Alfisti in the audience, but it looked to me like they were selling the car pre-crashed! It looked like it had already been rear-ended! I believe it was Car & Driver that noted the same thing in it's road test of the car. But... When you're sitting behind the wheel enjoying all the Italian goodness in the free-revving engine and 4-wheel independent suspension, well, you really can't see the quarter panels, now can you?
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As an "Alfisti" that made me laugh. Pre-crashed! I quite like the styling of this car, but pretty it isn't. Alfa's are among the best looking cars out there when they do curves, but when they do angles it just gets weird. But in a fun way.
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I hear you loud and clear. Give me a Spyder like the one Dustin Hoffman drove in "The Graduate", and I'd be a very happy Corvair owner. Now THAT'S what an Alfa Romeo is to me.
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