T his article covers the Alfa Romeo GTV andSpider models launched in 1995, whichremained in production until 2005. The Pininfarina design was bold at the time and stilllooks fresh today. Both models shared the samefront end and there was some mechanical partcommonality with the 155, which was based looselyaround Fiat Tempra underpinnings. Although Alfa had produced front wheel drive cars since the 1972 Alfasud, these were the firstcoupe and spider models so equipped. With theprevious Alfetta GTV having been out of productionsince 1986 and the Series 4 Spider since 1992 therewere no immediate predecessors to compare with.However initial reaction was very favourable withboth models receiving tempered praise in themotoring press (remember this was the time whenAlfa were still recovering and sales were very poor).