The Story Of The Unforgettable Alfa Romeo 75/Milano
Despite having been designed on a shoestring budget, the Alfa 75 ended up being much more than the sum of its parts, and it’s now gaining favor in the collectors’ car market as the last “classic” Alfa Romeo. Here’s its story.
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7 min readJun 21, 2022
It would be an understatement to say that the people in charge at Alfa Romeo in the early 1980s had the cards stacked against them.
Crippled by an unsustainable debt burden, Alfa desperately needed new models to lure buyers into its showrooms but lacked the resources to fund them.
However, what Alfa Romeo’s people had in spades was ingenuity, and the beloved Alfa 75 undoubtedly is a testament to that. This is the story of the last classic Alfa Romeo, the handsome Alfa 75.
Little to celebrate
Launched on May 17, 1985, the Alfa 75 owed its name to the seventy-fifth anniversary of the company’s foundation in Milan and, although there was little to celebrate about the state of the company, the model went on to become a success, at least in its home market of Italy.
