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#1 fuzzi

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Posted 30 July 2014 - 11:28

This museum has been closed for some time due to cuts by the owners Fiat SPA. There is an organsation in Italy trying to raise support to get it re-opened.

 

The online petition is at (and you can improve your italian while you read it :drunk: :

 

http://www.change.or...on_update_email


Edited by fuzzi, 30 July 2014 - 14:54.


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#2 Vitesse2

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Posted 30 July 2014 - 11:40

Done.



#3 JoBo

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Posted 30 July 2014 - 14:43

This museum has been closed for some time due to cuts by the owners Fiat SPA. There is an organsation in Italy trying to raise support to get it re-opened.

 

The online petition is at (an you can improve your italian while you read it :drunk: :

 

http://www.change.or...on_update_email

 

Done! :clap:

 

JoBo


Edited by JoBo, 30 July 2014 - 14:43.


#4 John Brundage

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Posted 30 July 2014 - 20:54

Done



#5 Jagjon

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Posted 30 July 2014 - 21:04

done.



#6 ChrisJson

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Posted 02 August 2014 - 07:49

Likewise



#7 bschenker

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Posted 02 August 2014 - 10:13

http://alfaromeomuse...co-will-reopen/

 

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#8 Charlieman

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Posted 02 August 2014 - 14:59

I'm delighted to read that the museum will re-open. Fiat Group have announced targets to boost Alfa Romeo sales from 74,000 per annum to 400,000. I have absolutely no idea why they expected to achieve this after offending motoring enthusiasts most likely to buy an Alfa.



#9 Doug Nye

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Posted 02 August 2014 - 15:49

Hmmm - good luck!

 

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#10 BRG

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Posted 02 August 2014 - 16:23

I have absolutely no idea why they expected to achieve this after offending motoring enthusiasts most likely to buy an Alfa.

Ever since FIAT took over Alfa, they have been offending enthusiasts by selling them badly built, unreliable cars that depreciate like a stone.  So no change then.



#11 Charlieman

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Posted 02 August 2014 - 18:19

Ever since FIAT took over Alfa, they have been offending enthusiasts by selling them badly built, unreliable cars that depreciate like a stone.  So no change then.

Pedant point: Fiat (mixed case) has been the company name for donkey's ears. Wikipedia and many derivative articles place the name change in 1906. A quick peek at Pomeroy's Grand Prix Vol 1 suggests F.I.A.T. for the 1906 French GP and Fiat for 1907, although Pomeroy also uses F.I.A.T. when referring to later cars...

 

Grace's Guide (http://www.gracesgui....uk/Fiat_Motors) provides some fascinating adverts for Fiats, F.I.A.T.s and FIATs, which suggest that the UK importers were confused too for many years. 

 

Body and radiator badges throw up further confusion. It is easy to find photos of Fiat radiator badges on authentic pre-1906 cars, when the company name was most definitely F.I.A.T. More common Fiats of later times are badged FIAT. 

 

Today the holding company is Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, a successor to Fiat S.p.a which was commonly known as Fiat Group. 

 

FIAT has not been ALL CAPS for a long time. Perhaps a contributor with access to Italian company records might chip in. However we have to consider that importers may not have changed business registrations at the same time.



#12 BRG

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Posted 02 August 2014 - 21:13

Once an acronym, always an acronym. Just because FIAT have forgotten doesn't mean we all have.

#13 Charlieman

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Posted 02 August 2014 - 21:54

But you weren't alive when F.I.A.T./FIAT/Fiat changed the name. My bet is that the company name was Fiat when you scrounged old magazines from neighbours.

 

I'll let you off if you explain the BRG acronym. 



#14 Tim Murray

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Posted 03 August 2014 - 05:23

Once an acronym, always an acronym.


Should you not therefore have written 'ALFA' in your post above? :p

#15 BRG

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Posted 03 August 2014 - 18:43

 

I'll let you off if you explain the BRG acronym. 

Errr......Bruce Ronnie Graham?  Brabham Renault Gordini?  My initials?  British Racing Green?  Who knows...

 

Should you not therefore have written 'ALFA' in your post above? :p

Ah, Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili - fair enough, an own goal there by BRG!   But SEAT previously stood for Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo and yet they still call themsleves SEAT in capitals.  Should we refer to Vw and Bmw?  



#16 Charlieman

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Posted 03 August 2014 - 19:22

Errr......Bruce Ronnie Graham?  Brabham Renault Gordini?  My initials?  British Racing Green?  Who knows...

You're let off. I'll read signatures properly next time, Bruce.

 

SAAB started off as Svenska Aeroplan AB but the car part of the group was spun off in the 1990s to become Saab Automobile AB, thus creating an acronym within an acronym.



#17 GMACKIE

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Posted 03 August 2014 - 21:40

In 1996, I was lucky enough to visit the Biscaretti Museum - in Turin. For me, it was far more interesting than the Alfa Romeo Museum. Just an observation.



#18 zoff2005

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Posted 04 August 2014 - 16:12

You can visit Biscaretti now on

http://www.museoauto...avirtuale.html#

 

It has moved and been expanded quite recently. Indeed a fascinating visit.

 

Marcus



#19 Michael Ferner

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Posted 05 August 2014 - 19:04

The Alfa museum was present with several cars at the Classic Days at Schloss Dyck/Germany over the weekend.