Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Alfa Romeo’s Cool Diesel Sports Car




A agent powered sports car may assume like an oxymoron, but the two-seat Alfa Romeo Spider is now accessible with a agent engine. Like around every European automaker, Alfa Romeo offers agent engines throughout its ambit of models. Now, it's breaking new and around adopted arena in a way that's abiding to be emulated by others.
Designed by Giugiaro and Pininfarina, the Spider is a absolute beneficiary to acclaimed Alfa Romeo open-top action cars like the Giulietta Spider and Duetto. The new architecture won the "Cabrio of the Year 2006" accolade from the Comité Cabriolet. Currently, the Spider is already accessible with two gasoline engines - the absolute fuel-injected 185-horsepower 2.2 Jet Thrust Stoichiometric (JTS) four-cylinder and 260 application 3.2 JTS V-6.
The turbocharged 2.4 JTDM 20V agent acclimated in the Spider develops 200 horsepower. This is a five-cylinder, 20 valve, inline design. According to Alfa Romeo, the M-Jet (MultiJet) arrangement is the aboriginal of its kind, second-generation accepted abuse agent agent in the world. The M-Jet's ascendancy assemblage electronically opens and closes the injectors, so that during anniversary agent aeon the cardinal of injections is added compared to the two injections currently used. The aforementioned bulk of agent ammunition is burned, but it is delivered in several genitalia for added bit-by-bit combustion. The after-effects accommodate a 6 to 7 percent access in performance, beneath noise, and lower emissions.
Mated to a six-speed chiral transmission, the Alfa Spider has a top acceleration of 141 mph. Maximum torque of 295 pound-feet is accessible from as little as 2000 rpm, so the accessible top sports car can advance from 0-60 mph in 8.4 seconds. In boondocks the agent Alfa Spider gets 25.6 mpg and on the highway, 43.5 mpg. The new bristles butt MultiJet agent complies with Euro 4 emissions requirements and appearance a agent chapped trap, so it already meets approaching Euro 5 discharge limits. Significantly, this affection is a 'for life' arrangement so it does not charge to be regenerated with additives.
There is a acceptable adventitious that Alfa Romeo will acknowledgment to the U.S. bazaar in 2009 and the Spider will be one of the models offered here. Even so, the anticipation of the apple-pie agent alternative actuality offered in America is dim.

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