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It s just a hell of a car. I had the 1.5 105HP version and it has a mixture of lotus feeling behind the steering wheel and old giulietta emotion when you see it. Best looks in traditional red alfa colour and 195/45 15-inch boots on /hard ones to find/. However, it is now rusty down there in my garage, waiting for the next, better sprint to appear. The new brera may look nice, but it s just too heavy, and it just isn t that kind of a car, or creature, to be precise.

Russian steel claims

So far, I have NOT seen the slightest evidence that the Fiat group was indeed using russian steel during the '70s. I have challenged and contested this claim on numerous occasions and NO ONE has ever provided ANY proof of this. Furthermore, even if Fiat was INDEED using russian steel in the '70s, Alfa Romeo would be entirely unaffected by this deal, as it was not part of the Fiat Group during that time. On another note, the entirety of the whole "italian rust scandal" affair was a malicious libel campaign by tabloid Daily Mirror, a campaign riddled with false claims regarding the Lancia Beta. So, since Wikipedia's guidelines demand verifiability and the russian steel claims cannot be verified, I am deleting any reference to them.Elp gr (talk) 11:37, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I found something which I believe could be right? on Alfasud page added reference to alfasud page--— Typ932^{T | C} 11:41, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Still, the owner of that webpage does not provide EVIDENCE. Just because something is said by numerous people does not make it true. Can ANYONE verify the russian steel claims? If we are to verify them, we need to see contracts, press releases etc. So far, NONE of the numerous persons I've asked to procure such evidence has been able to do so. So, since the verifiability of this rumour (however widespread it may be) is zero (if not below zero) and since it CAN be verified (and HAS BEEN verified) that most, if not all, of this rust scandal has been fabricated, we must NOT continue to propagate such false, unverifiable and libelous claims.Elp gr (talk) 11:54, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are probabably right, would need reliable source for this.Myabe those could be removed until someone proves such source.--— Typ932^{T | C} 12:11, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have already removed the soviet steel claims and, where appropriate, point to the proof we have regarding the libel campaign of the Daily Mirror tabloid. We deserve solid, verifiable information, not libel and urban legends.Elp gr (talk) 13:21, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.autozine.org/Archive/Alfa/classic/Alfasud.html Probably the soviet steel and rust problems were only aplicable to alfasud not to sprint. "Sprint succeeded the best quality of Alfasud, namely, great handling and characterful boxer engine. Best of all, it did not have the quality problems of its mother. " YBSOne (talk) 22:27, 1 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So far, there is virtually no evidence to prove that the Soviet steel had anything to do with the problem of the Alfasud. The story remains an urban legend, and a personal website repeating that legend is clearly not a reliable source. Vincenzo N (talk) 22:22, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Should this be combined with Alfa Romeo Alfasud?

I thought that this used to be combined with the Alfasud page; but it appears to have been separate for some time. I really think it should be combined with the Alfasud page, albeit perhaps with its own section. Especially since the fact that this model exists isn't made all that clear in the Alfasud article (there is a link, but it's buried in the text).PVarjak (talk) 01:10, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In my view it makes sense to have this standalone article, because the Alfasud Sprint outlived the Alfasud berlina and was updated with the new bits and engines from the 33, while losing the Alfasud prefix from the name. Of course both this and the Alfasud article have a wide margin for improvement. —Cloverleaf II (talk) 05:25, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose They are separate models, for a separate market segment. Why even think about merging them? Andy Dingley (talk) 09:42, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]