The Story Of The Glorious Alfa Romeo Giulia

2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the presentation of the original Alfa Romeo Giulia saloon, one of the Milanese marque’s most significant commercial successes in the period and perhaps its most popular model among collectors nowadays.

Work on the Giulia started in the late 1950s, a period of rapid economic expansion in Italy during which Alfa’s Giulietta had become a coveted symbol of newfound economic prosperity for thousands of small and medium entrepreneurs.

With a seemingly insatiable demand for automobiles and rapidly improving living standards, the Giulia was designed to go “beyond” the Giulietta in every respect: larger, more powerful, and, of course, faster.

The existing all-aluminum twin-cam four cylinders engine was enlarged from 1290cc to 1570cc and, equipped with a double choke 32mm Solex carburetor, it made 92HP at 6000Rpm.

Power went to the rear wheels via a brand-new five-speed manual gearbox, a highly unusual feature for any family saloon at the time.

As disc brakes were still a novelty in the early 1960s, Alfa Romeo’s engineers retained drum brakes for the first Giulias until 1964, when all production finally switched to the four-disc brakes the model deserved.

While the Giulia’s basic engineering can be considered an incremental improvement over the Giulietta it replaced, its exterior design was a complete revolution, born out of pioneering aerodynamic wind tunnel research carried out using Turin’s Polytechnic facility.

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