Lexus has topped the leaderboard for customer satisfaction for an 11th consecutive year.  The Japanese brand has hogged the top position of J.D. Power’s annual customer satisfaction study since it became eligible for consideration. Vauxhall was lumped with the booby [...]

Fiat’s drive into the fleet market progresses with the announcement of a major tie-in with leading car-share organisation Connect. The Hertz-owned car-by-the-hour business has agreed a deal that makes the Fiat 500 and Alfa MiTo key cars in its fleet. [...]

Alfa Romeo has had a real mountain to climb in trying to sell its mid-sized family/executive model, the 159. First launched in 2005, the 159 has some pretty strong rivals in its class, most notably the triumvirate of the Audi [...]

Following on from Alfa’s popular new MiTo launched in 2009 comes the MiTo MultiAir. MultiAir is much more than a marketing buzzword as it unquestionably signifies a major advancement in petrol engine design by yielding a 10% reduction in both [...]

Alfa Romeo has changed the user-chooser landscape for company car drivers with the introduction of two brand new engines – a 200 bhp petrol unit and a 170 bhp diesel engine. The results are an increase in fuel economy, lower [...]

The Alfa Romeo 159 we drove was very definitely a driver orientated machine and the all new diesel sits very comfortably indeed. The question here is can you have the best of both worlds? Can you have the legendary feel [...]

Alfa’s sleek and sassy 159 first went on sale in 2006 with a range of five different engines, but there’s now a new 2.0JTDM turbodiesel as well as this new 1750 TBi turbopetrol. Boasting improved power and efficiency over the [...]

A year shy of the Italian sporting marque’s 100th birthday, Alfa Romeo will be preparing for next year’s Centenary with an historic hill climb by the first 8C Spider production car to be seen on the move in Britain, at [...]

Some current two-seater roadsters are so over-styled and fussy-looking that they almost seem dated already. In ten or twenty years we’ll look back and say, ‘Did I really drive that?’. Not so the Alfa Spider which, although essentially a soft-top [...]

Fleet managers and drivers can both now look forward to a more exciting choice of company car thanks to the arrival of the all-new Alfa MiTo. Combining eye-catching style with cost-conscious substance, the 1.3 JTDm diesel engine boasts 62.8mpg fuel [...]