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Since the launch of the Brera coupe, the pretty GT has been somewhat overlooked. Andy Enright tries the 1.9 JTDM diesel version
Has any coupe in recent years had a more unfair crack of the whip than Alfas GT? I doubt it. It seems this car was a hot ticket for about ten minutes before the buzz moved onto something else. Whats more, the launch of the Brera coupe has further diverted the spotlight from one of the most attractively-styled cars on sale today. Looking to rectify the balance somewhat, we took delivery of a 1.
9-litre JTD diesel model to reassess this cars attributes.
To this eye at least, the GT is a better proportioned vehicle than the Brera. Walk round the GT and youll be hard pushed to find one bad angle whereas the Brera looks sensational from some angles but strangely lumpen from others. This 21,200 GT also enjoys a fair price advantage over the Brera (over 5,000), although this diesel model is not directly comparable due to the fact that the newer car sports a 2.4-litre diesel whereas this makes do with 1.
9-litres of JTDM engine. Hefty dealer discounting has made this car even better value, so that you should be able to secure one for comfortably less than youd pay for something like a Golf GTI. But then you will have to make do with just 150bhp, although the powerplant is certainly modern enough. The Fiat Group, of which Alfa Romeo is a key constituent, was first to market with a direct injection diesel way back in 1986 and in 2005 was awarded the Economist Innovation Award for ground-breaking work in developing common-rail diesel technology.
Alfa Romeo brought the first JTD common rail engine to the UK in 1997, plumbed into the front of an Alfa 156. The latest development is a sixteen-valve 150bhp Multijet version of that engine which offers more power and reduced noise levels yet still posts competitive fuel economy and emissions figures. Its the same as the 140bhp unit offered in the pre-facelift 147 from summer 2003 but a revised injection strategy has boosted the output while reducing noise and vibration.
"Drive an Alfa GT JTDM and you wonder how on earth this car managed to rack up such modest sales"
The Multijet system takes the idea of pilot injection squirting a small amount of fuel into the cylinder to prime the combustion chamber for the main ignition process and refines it still further. In this instance, the main injection is divided into a series of smaller injections, allowing smoother, more gradual combustion that utilises fuel more efficiently. The electronic control units therefore have to be astonishingly precise. Whereas before the time lag between injections was a relatively yawning 1,500 microseconds, the response time has been slashed by a factor of 10.