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• All - New car sales 2012 8 Jan 2013 (Forum)
  More than a 10% decrease in car sales compared to 2011: Alfa Romeo 7,253 (down 37.27% compared to 2011); Lotus 137 (down 58.36%); Maserati 309 (down 20.36%); Mazda 26,183 (down 16.13%); Mitsubishi 6,549 (down 33.47%); Renault 40,760 (down 40.45%); Subaru 2,023 (down 23.2%).    
• n/a - PSA - Fiat - Chrysler link up. 23 Dec 2019 (Forum)
   He finds himself at the head of a portfolio of 14 brands: the five of the PSA group (Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Opel Vauxhall) to which must be added Alfa Romeo, Abarth, Fiat, Lancia, Maserati, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, RAM. A conglomerate that represents 170 billion euros in cumulative turnover and 400,000 employees. https://www.letelegramme.fr/economie/les-details-du-contrat-de-mariage-psa-fiat-chrysler-18-12-2019-12462070.php   !
• new alfa to take on mini 12 Sep 2006 (Forum)
  Alfa plans a return to the US market in late 2008, beginning with expensive sports cars sold through the US dealers that sell its sister brand, Maserati. But the new Mini-fighter is not slated for the United States because the Grande Punto platform was not engineered for US regulations, the report said. The Junior is expected to sell 60,000 to 80,000 units a year, the report added.
• Best-looking car of all time? 29 Nov 2003 (Forum)
  Until I went to the International Classic Motor Show last weekend, I didn't have a best-looking car of all time in my mind. Now I have: the Maserati A6G 2000, particularly in its Frua guise, as shown at http://tinyurl.com/uz2e http://tinyurl.com/uz32 Somewhere on the Web I found a photo of it from the show, but I can't find it now. However, the very same car can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/uz4g It appeared in the mid-1950s, designed I think by Zagato, coachbuilt I think by Frua; fewer than a hundred were built.
• Time of life? 5 Feb 2005 (Forum)
  In a nutshell it boils down to this: Should I a) Sell the Alfa and buy a new Nissan X-trail SVE DCi as my main personal transport, running up 25,000-30,000 miles per year or b) Keep the Alfa until the wheels fall off, using it as my main car, and spend a not dissimilar amount to the purchase price of a new X-trail on the purchase of a secondhand Maserati 3200GT (likely to be a 1999 or 2000 model, with perhaps 30,000-40,000 miles on it), using it for no more than 5,000-8,000 miles per annum. This would be a "keeper" for as long as I have breathe in my body.
• New Cars in 2002 11 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  September 2002 Lamborghini Murcielago - April 2002 Land Rover Discovery facelift ? July 2002 Lotus Elise Sport 135 - January 2002 Maserati Spyder ? January 2002 Maserati 4200GT ? June 2002 Mazda 6 saloon - June 2002 Mazda 6 hatch/estate - October 2002 Mazda 6 Sports Wagon 4WD - December 2002 Mazda Demio ? September 2002 Mercedes SL500 - April 2002 Mercedes SL55 AMG - July 2002 Mercedes Vaneo - May 2002 Mercedes E-class -August 2002 Mercedes CLK - 2002 Mercedes Maybach - 2002 MGF Turbo - 2002 MGTF - April 2002 MG ZT X-Power 385 - September 2002 MG ZT 265 - June 2002 MG X80 - December 2002 Mini Cooper S - June 2002 Mitsubishi Space Star facelift - June 2002 Nissan Primera saloon/estate - March 2002 Nissan Primera hatchback - July 2002 Nissan Micra ?
• Survey - Which would you choose? 20 May 2015 (Forum)
    Type 1: A high-performance, supremely luxurious yet practical 4/5 seat sports saloon/fastback, with all the toys. eg. Audi A7, Merc CLS, Maserati, Porsche Panamera, Aston Martin Rapide, Bently Silver Spur Type 2:  An A/B segment small hatchback, with the decent spec of a/c, DAB and sat nav. eg Honda Jazz, Hyundai i20, Fiesta, Ford B-Max, Clio, Mazda 2, etc.
• to be decided - 5 seater luxury rocket? 16 Apr 2011 (Forum)
  pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item43a679875f Would I be mad? (Crap listing, terrible photos, but always been a car I fancy) http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Maserati-Quattroporte-3-2-V8-auto-Evoluzione-/190520690725?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item2c5beb0825 Any more ideas? GUY
• International Classic Motor Show 12 Nov 2003 (Forum)
  It's a major event, spread over halls 7--12, and it runs the whole gamut from the brand new super-Jag (can't recall or find it's name/number), through classics to drool over (e.g. an absolutely superb black 1956 Maserati A6G 2000 -- fewer than 100 built), to some exquisite vintage cars, and from body-panel manufacturers to traders in every widget you could imagine, plus of course a fair sprinkling of tat. The saddest sight was of two glamour girls waiting for punters to fork out £10 to be photographed with them; they looked thoroughly neglected and miserable.
• Italian Style 21 Nov 2008 (Forum)
  I had imagined that the sort of people who would work for such a company and in such a clearly image concious environment might have reflected some of that influence in their choice of cars. I had thought that I would see a car park full of Alfas, Maseratis and the like. I was quite wrong. The Managing Director picked me up from the airport in his base model Passat estate. It was newish but not in the first flush of youth. A divisional director took me to dinner at a very swanky eatery and gave me a lift there in his diesel Punto, again a base model.
• New Jaguar XF spotted? 30 Apr 2007 (Forum)
  On seeing me doing so, the driver engaged eye contact and promptly drove off but had to pass me in the process. Although wearing a fabric cover, the head-on stance said "Jaguar" or Maserati to me more than anything else, and I noticed that it was a left hooker on foreign plates. I also noticed that the driver now had a passenger, so perhaps with my relative proximity to Gaydon (and Coventry if this was the new XF saloon) this was a case of an engineer unofficially bringing his work home or collecting a colleague.
• BMW 3-Series E90 (2005 - ) - 325D Final installment 24 Apr 2008 (Forum)
  I arrive at my cubie daily to, variously, ironic applause, insincere empathy or/and my colleagues holding up improvised ice skating type marker boards with low integers ascribed. They are uniformly true petrol heads. One has two Maseratis, one bought new last September, and a new Ferrari acquired this Christmas. (To my secret delight, it broke down after 100 miles and was taken away on a transporter) Those are just the cars he admits to.