Alfa Romeo 159 2005

[borghetto]

a company of fiat group,it works with iron, steel,aluminium..ecc

[paddy]

"And here's an interesting snippet. The 159's and Brera's new 3.2-litre V6 is based on a GM Holden design but has Alfa Romeo cylinder heads. But the way it ends up in the Alfa is more devious than you could ever imagine. The engine is built up in Australia by Holden, complete with original Holden heads. It is then shipped to the US, where it's taken to bits and all the Alfa castings, intake and exhaust systems are added. The pieces are then sent to the Alfa plant at Pomigliano d'Arco, where the 159 is made, and built up into an Alfa engine.

It gets better. The block castings are partly sourced from Teksid in Mexico. Teksid is owned by... Fiat."

This is plain stupid! I imagine that it might be a cheaper solution for the short term, but for the long run if would surely be far better if Alfa made duplicate castings and cast the parts they need in Italy, at one of the Teksid plants? All of this shipping around, taking engines apart sounds very inefficient to me. Can somebody explain the point of shipping complete Holden engines and then taking them to pieces, rather then sending engine kits with only the relevant parts for Alfa?

The cost of each engine must be tremendous!

[DJTaurus]

a company of fiat group,it works with iron, steel,aluminium..ecc

Teksid Aluminum was bought by Questor Fund in Sept 2002....is this true?

Background

Teksid Aluminum was a former subsidiary of Fiat S.p.A., who sold

the company to Questor and Teksid Aluminum’s management

team to raise cash and allow it to more effectively focus on its

core operations.

In the three years prior to Questor’s acquisition, Teksid Aluminum

invested over $270 million to create its current state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities.

Understanding the need to close the transaction quickly, Questor acted fast and –

within four months of learning of the opportunity:

- Completed its due diligence,

- Arranged fully committed financing,

- Negotiated the key terms of the purchase agreement

http://www.questorfund.com/portfolio.html#

[DJTaurus]

Times

The build quality is a quantum leap forward and FIAT seems to be waking up to the idea that they need to sell cars outside of Italy as well, so the 159 is aiming for "World Class Quality"

Alfa has the basics here to build a 320 beater..... after you've seen an Alfa, you just think other manufacturers should put a paperbag over their cars.

[ACS]

THE TIMES of LONDON

The build quality is a quantum leap forward and FIAT seems to be waking up to the idea that they need to sell cars outside of Italy as well, so the 159 is aiming for "World Class Quality"

Alfa has the basics here to build a 320 beater..... after you've seen an Alfa, you just think other manufacturers should put a paperbag over their cars.

forse un po' esagerato, ma cmq interessante...

[paddy]

Teksid Aluminum was bought by Questor Fund in Sept 2002....is this true?

http://www.questorfund.com/portfolio.html#

I think Fiat Spa own 80.5% of Teksid.

http://www.fiatgroup.com/comuni/php/file_get.php?w=XOYGK44B1LEUIZW87RPZ

[DJTaurus]

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[DJTaurus]

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[milus]

più passa il tempo più questa macchina a dispetto di tutto la trovo...

....sexy

[J-Gian]

Bellissima!

Ma l'assetto è lo stesso delle altre 159 oppure sono le ruote che riempiono meglio?