Alfa Romeo: the car maker we all want to love... #260

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel attempt to unpack the mystery that is Alfa Romeo. It remains one of the most prestigious mainstream car makers on the planet despite long spells of mismanagement and often very poor model line ups. This company was one of motor racing's top dogs for years, but today motorsport forms no significant part of the marque's activities. Dan and Andrew discuss the company's best and worst cars and outline their plan to revive it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Intercooler podcast.
0:05.6	Hi everybody, welcome back to the Intercooler podcast with Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel.
0:10.7	And this week we are going all Italian.
0:12.9	Yes.
0:13.4	We are talking about Alpha Romeo.
0:15.4	I can't believe we've got this.
0:16.7	What number of podcasts is this?
0:18.1	This is, we're up high 250s, I think, maybe 260.
0:22.1	We've never done this.
0:23.5	Well, we've touched on Alpha Romeo before.
0:26.6	Someone might put me right here, but I don't think we've done a full stand-alone episode on Alpha-Omeo.
0:33.3	And the reason for doing it is it's that car mark, isn't it, that manufacturer that we all want to love, but few of us actually do.
0:40.8	I think it more than almost any other manufacturer.
0:44.0	Alfa Romeo is the manufacturer that everybody, they just want, you know.
0:50.6	There's so much goodwill, isn't that?
0:51.8	There's so much goodwill.
0:52.9	Few good cars.
0:53.6	And they just just i think people
0:55.7	are so desperate if they just produced a really good car and they have produced and i'm not joking
1:03.3	in their history some of the greatest cars this world has ever seen if they could just do that
1:09.8	people would flock but it has to be an alpha-o-mao if you could just do that, people would flock.
1:12.4	But it has to be an Alpha-O-M-A.
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