You're right Mark, 197 bhp through the front wheels meant it used to wag its nose at the mention of rain. It did look a bit like the 405 but it was actually a shared chassis with the FIAT Chroma, Lancia Thema and the Saab 9000 if memory serves me correctly. And yeah, I work in the UK motor industry and see some shockers come through the doors some days...

I want to get a classic car at some point and the pictures of these Alfas has reignited a spark. Autotrader here we come...

: Wrong driven wheels for a car like that though. And Pinifarina
: design sounds glamorous until you realise they just served up
: reheated and resized Peugeot 405...

: Still, far from the worst car to have at 21! Thankfully we're not
: 21 now, I don't think I could stand to drive a lowered Citroën
: Saxo with plastic growths and impossibly large exhausts
: generating enough back pressure to neutralise whatever little
: power the engine had to start with....