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Re: GM Purchase
Posted by William Hong (more from William Hong) on Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:47:17
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00 

> The SAAB 9000 and the Alfa Romeo 164 and a FIAT (the Thema , i think) share
> a platform that the three companies developed together (when FIAT and
> Lancia were separate).  

There was a fourth car, I vaguely recall being the Chroma.  Wasn't the 
Chroma the Fiat, and the Thema the Lancia?

> I love my 9000 T , because i like to think it is part Alfa, somewhere under
> there (or at least my extremely safe car has design elements from a
> wonderful company like Alfa)...but is it fair to say that the 164 likewise
> has design elements of the SAAB ?  WHat i want to know : IS the 164 as
> structurally strong as a 9000 in safety terms ?

I don't know for sure about the safety aspect.  There is more to safety
than just the platform.  However, I do recall that there was a lot of flak
directed at the 164 by the 'true believer' Alfisti, sneering that it was
'just a Saab' (my paraphrase, but you get the idea), not worthy to the
marque, etc.  Pretty much the same thing one heard with the VW Rabbit/Golf
vs. Beetle,  Porsche 928 vs. 911, BMW 3 Series vs. 2002, and even 9000 vs.
900, so it all sounds very familiar....
 
> The Alfa Romeo Milano was a rather expensive to build rear wheel drive car
> that FIAT scrapped when they took Alfa over.  Offered from 1987 to 1989, it
> was a truly superior rear wheel drive sedan, the platform of which was also
> used for the GTV-6 two door hatch back Alfa Romeos...

Too bad that (as one wag put it), it looked like a crash test car that had
already been tested when brand new:-)....

Bill H.

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