The 159's beauty was more than skin deep, which will be worth remembering for this one...
this week's Shed
Shed used to be a dab hand with the old flap peener. Mrs Shed confiscated his specialist tools after she misunderstood what he was talking about, but he remembers enough about the process of teasing sheet metal into sexy shapes to know that it takes some doing to get a panel into the sort of the state you're looking at here.
We'll probably never know. The vendor, perhaps wisely, opts not to speculate on any of this. What we do know is that the 159 was on sale between 2005 and 2011, and that it was the successor to the 156 and the precursor to the current Giulia. Many of those who have driven both the 156 and the 159 would be hard pressed to agree that the 159 represented an improvement over its predecessor in the handling department.
Alfa was in a sink or swim situation in the 2000s. Folk wanted durable but dull diesels rather than tuneful but thirsty petrols. For the last year of their lives the diesel 159s got a new 2.0 unit with 170hp and 266lb ft at 1,750rpm, but our 2006 example has the more powerful of the two 1.9 diesels that were available at the time, the 150hp lump with 236lb ft at 2,000rpm and 16 valves .
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