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The Alfa Romeo 164 is a four-door executive saloon manufactured and marketed by Italian automaker Alfa Romeo from 1987 to 1998, styled by Pininfarina, and cooperatively designed and sharing platforms and numerous elements with the Fiat Croma, Saab 9000 and Lancia Thema.
The Alfa Romeo 164 (Type 164) is a four-door executive saloon manufactured and marketed by Italian automaker Alfa Romeo from 1987 to 1998, styled by Pininfarina, and cooperatively designed and sharing platforms and numerous elements with the Fiat Croma, Saab 9000 and Lancia Thema. The 164 succeeded the Alfa Romeo 90 and Alfa 6. The 164 was followed by the 166 in 1998, after a combined production total of 273,857 units. The 164 was also the last Alfa Romeo officially sold in the United States until the 2015 launch of the Alfa Romeo Giulia. Alfa Romeo withdrew after the 1995 model year due to reliability concerns and slow sales.
Development The 164 started life as Project 156 (not to be confused with Alfa Romeo 156) in 1980 as a proposal by Alfa Romeo engineer Filippo Surace as a modular platform for a range of cars aimed to replace the Alfa Sud and Alfetta. Project 156 was meant to be a rear-wheel drive and powered by the Alfa Romeo's Busso V6. A saloon body was designed by Centro Stile Alfa Romeo's designer Ermanno Cressoni featuring a modern design language according to its times and a tail higher than the Alfetta. A year later, when the tooling and drivetrain development was underway, the Italian Government, which owned Alfa Romeo at the time, cut back the funding which resulted in the shelving of the project. Surace then engaged in talks with Lancia engineer Sergio Camuffo to discuss a joint venture in order to save development costs for a new model range. This joint development brought Alfa Romeo into the Fiat Tipo Quattro platform which was itself originally a joint development between Fiat and Saab tracing its roots to October 1978. Surace nonetheless utilized the existing tooling developed in house for Project 156 by modifying it to accommodate the front-wheel drive layout of the new platform while Cressoni's team refined the design further to suit the new platform's changed architecture. However, this time they had direct competition from renowned styling house Pininfarina. It was however, the latter's design proposal styled by Enrico Fumia which gained the management's approval in 1984 and was approved for production. However, early development mules of the car, now known as 164, utilized body panels made from the now cancelled Project 156 confusing spy photographers and journalists. Some design elements from Project 156 made their way to the Alfa Romeo 75. The 164 featured a wedge shape yielding it a drag coefficient of Cd=0.30. The design would later influence the rest of the Alfa Romeo range (starting in 1990 with the major redesign of the 33 and culminating with the 155. Ultimately unveiled at the 1987 Frankfurt Motor Show, the 164 was the last model to be developed while the Alfa Romeo was still a fully independent company, and was formally launched a few months after the takeover by Fiat.
The 164 was styled by Enrico Fumia of Pininfarina, with the first 1:1 scale model produced in 1982. Design cues were publicly revealed on the Alfa Romeo Vivace concept car, which was exhibited at the 1986 Turin Motorshow that went on to influence the design of the Alfa Romeo GTV and Spider (916 series) presented in 1994. The 164 became the first Alfa Romeo to benefit from extensive use of computer aided design, used to calculate structural stresses that resulted in a very rigid but still relatively lightweight chassis. Although sharing the same platform as that of the Lancia Thema, Fiat Croma and Saab 9000, by virtue of the fact that it was the last of the four to enter production, it featured unique front suspension geometry and the most distinctive styling of the lot. In fact, for example, the other cars all shared identical side door panels. Though still voluminous, the 164 had the tightest aperture to the rear boot, which had a 510-Litre capacity. Overall, the 164 also benefitted from improved build quality relative to previous Alfa Romeos, due to the extensive use of galvanised steel for the chassis and various body panels for the first time in the brand's history. Moreover, the car featured advanced (but troublesome) electronics due in-part to the most complex wiring harness fitted to any Alfa Romeo. For example: it had three onboard computers (one for air conditioning, one for instrumentation, and one for the engine management); air conditioning and instrument functions shared a multiple-mode coded Zilog Z80-class microcontroller for dashboard functioning). The instrumentation included a full range of gauges including an advanced check-panel.
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