5 Things You Didn’t Know About The Alfa Romeo Giulietta
If you were to choose a nameplate that, above all others, best encapsulates what Alfa Romeo stands for, nobody could blame you for picking the original Giulietta from the 1950s. Let’s discover five little-known facts about this seminal Alfa model.
Fun to drive, technically sophisticated, and, in most versions at least, drop-dead gorgeous to look at, the Giulietta represents Italy’s incredible post-war renaissance better than perhaps anything else. Revered by collectors since the 1980s, the story of the Giulietta has been very well-documented, but I bet you didn’t know these five little factoids about it: sit back and enjoy…
What’s in a name?
The Shakespearian name of Giulietta came about one day at the home of the poet Leonardo Sinisgalli, a good friend of Alfa’s president Giuseppe Luraghi. Up to that point, Alfa Romeos had never been given proper names but rather numbers and acronyms. Luraghi wanted a change, though, and Sinisgalli’s wife, overhearing the conversation, suggested Giulietta for Alfa’s new car and Romeo for the new van, which were unveiled contemporarily at the Portello factory in 1954.
