The 145 hid an engineering oddity under its skin: the same platform was built to accept both old-school longitudinal boxer engines and modern transverse four-cylinders.
Lead trim: 1.4 Boxer (90 PS) · up to 153 hp
Alfa Romeo 1451994–2000
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FactThe 145 hid an engineering oddity under its skin: the same platform was built to accept both old-school longitudinal boxer engines and modern transverse four-cylinders.
The Alfa Romeo 145 (Type 930A) is a three-door small family car produced by Alfa Romeo from 1994 to 2000, launched at the 1994 Turin Motor Show as the replacement for the ageing 33; the development of Tipo 930 lasted four years, and 221,037 145s were built. It is based on the Fiat Group's Tipo Due platform with a unibody structure and MacPherson strut front and rear trailing arm suspension, and a peculiarity is that it was designed to take both longitudinal engines (the older Boxers, mounted as in the 33 and Alfasud) and transverse engines (the diesels and the Twin Spark). At launch the range comprised a 1.9 litre turbo diesel and the boxer petrol engines from the 33 in 1.3, 1.6 and range-topping 1.7 16-valve forms; the flagship 145 Quadrifoglio (Cloverleaf in the UK) with the two-litre 16-valve Twin Spark from the 155 was launched at the September 1995 Frankfurt Motor Show. From January 1997 all the boxers were phased out in favour of 1.4, 1.6 and 1.8 Twin Spark 16-valve engines, the Junior trim level arrived in September 1997, and the 1999 restyle introduced the common-rail 1.9 JTD turbodiesel. It was superseded by the 147 in 2000.
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Trims & Figures
11 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4 Boxer (90 PS) | 1994–1997 | 1.4 L Flat-4 | 89 hp | 85 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.4 Twin Spark 16V (103 PS) | 1997–2000 | 1.4 L Inline-4 | 102 hp | 91 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.6 Boxer (103 PS) | 1994–1997 | 1.6 L Flat-4 | 102 hp | 100 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.6 Twin Spark 16V (120 PS) | 1997–2000 | 1.6 L Inline-4 | 118 hp | 106 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.7 Boxer 16V (129 PS) | 1994–1997 | 1.7 L Flat-4 | 127 hp | 110 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.8 Twin Spark 16V (140 PS) | 1997–1998 | 1.7 L Inline-4 | 138 hp | 125 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.8 Twin Spark 16V VLIM (144 PS) | 1998–2000 | 1.7 L Inline-4 | 142 hp | 125 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.9 JTD common-rail turbodiesel (105 PS) | 1999–2000 | 1.9 L Inline-4 | 104 hp | 188 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.9 TD turbodiesel (90 PS) | 1994–1999 | 1.9 L Inline-4 | 89 hp | 141 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 2.0 Twin Spark 16V (150 PS) | 1995–1998 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 148 hp | 138 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 2.0 Twin Spark 16V VLIM (155 PS) | 1998–2000 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 153 hp | 138 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
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