WHICH IS the greater God? The God of Power – this is the God of hedonists and Clarkson - or the God of On-road Balance? And before which altar do you stand?

Or is the greatest God a middle God; one where power and on-road balance sit in equilibrium, and each the equal.

This is more the [...]

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ALFA ROMEO HAS announced pricing details for the 2010 MiTo, which has been released to the Australian media this week (TMR is there). What’s clear is that the Italian brand is gunning for a slice of MINI’s share of the upper part of the small-car market.

Starting at $31,490 for the base MiTo, Alfa Romeo has [...]

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Alfa Romeo has announced that it’s purty-lookin’ MiTo hatch is coming our way, and will be on sale in Australia from July.

Pricing and exact specifications of the Australia-bound cars have yet to be revealed, but we do know that we’ll get the two most powerful engines on offer - an 88kW and a 114kW turbocharged [...]

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While the little Fiat 500 is already a fuel-sipping teetotaler, Fiat obviously felt it could do better.

The Italian carmaker has whacked a start/stop system into the ‘Bambino’ Fiat 500, which – as with other start/stop systems – deactivates the car’s engine while at a complete stop, reactivating it when the driver engages the clutch and [...]

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Got a spare two minutes and forty-eight seconds?  Find it. The video above shows the Alfa Romeo MiTo GTA cruising around a suburban circuit, and even features a cameo from the original 105 GTA.  Accompanied by a new remix of Benny Benassi’s ‘Satisfaction’, this is the perfect video for a Friday [...]

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In the lead up to the Geneva Motor Show, Alfa Romeo has slotted a couple more images and a little more information on the upcoming Alfa Romeo MiTo GTA concept into our mailbox.

Alfa Romeo tells us that unlike many GT cars, where power is commonly the ultimate measure of success, the GTA badge stands for a perfect [...]

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Alfa Romeo has released two teaser sketches for their upcoming MiTo GTA hot hatch. Well, consider us suitably teased.

The first of the the two illustrations appears to be an engine cover. The famed GTA script sits pride-of-place in the middle, for those who might mistake the car for its lesser MiTo sibling with the bonnet [...]

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They say fashion is cyclical, and in motoring nothing illustrates that better than the hot hatch. The Volkswagen Golf GTi, Peugeot 205 GTI and even the Suzuki GTi gave the class runaway popularity through the 80s. During the 90s however, things waned for the hot-hatch as the small convertible began a return to favour.

Now, however, we’re seeing a resurgence of [...]

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With images of their new Mi.To being leaked onto the web earlier today, Alfa Romeo have been quick to counter with an official ‘beauty shots’ video of their new baby. Expected for some time now and often referred to as the new ‘Junior’, Alfa describe the Mi.To as a ‘compact sports car’ - in [...]

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