The 110-year history of Alfa Romeo is riddled with ups and downs, yet somehow it manages to survive and maintain a charisma that marketers of rival makes could only look on with a touch of envy. There were a number of factors that led to...
A regular feature covering vehicles in the FMM collection that are celebrating an anniversary during 2022. November marks the 100th anniversary of FMM’s majestic Isotta Fraschini, and also the centenary of Tutankhamun’s tomb being discovered – and there is a link between the two along...
A regular feature covering vehicles in the FMM collection that are celebrating an anniversary during 2022. This month Mike Monk enthuses over a particular favourite with a sorting heart...
A regular feature, outlining the activities of FMM’s workshop personnel who are responsible for repairing, renovating, refurbishing and restoring the museum’s large and varied collection of vehicles. This month, technician JP du Plessis reports on a Touring Alfa that was not running so good...
Thanks to a long Covid-induced hiatus, a resurgence of energy – and a relaxing of Government restrictions – brought 100-plus guests from the Cape Alfa Romeo Club to FMM in mid-February. Over 50 stunning examples of the Milanese marque attended, ranging in age from the...
GOLDEN STRADALE One of the Alfa Romeo brand's most iconic cars, the 33 Stradale, turned 50 years old in September. First presented on 31 August 1967 on the eve of the Italian Formula 1 GP at Monza, the 33 Stradale was presented as the ideal expression...
Plaaspad, FMM’s test facility on the L’Ormarins Estate, has been a venue for some recent new car media launches and the latest company to make use of the facility was Fiat Chrysler Automobiles South Africa, who introduced the new Alfa Romeo Giulia to the mainstream...
Over the Easter weekend the Cape Alfa Romeo Club celebrated its 50th birthday and the club turned the landmark event into a national convention and thus celebrate properly. The festivities began on the Friday at the Tygervalley Protea Hotel with members joined by fellow ‘alfisti’...
