Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon 2011

Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon Range 2011 is updated with the addition of a new diesel engine, greener, which replaces the 120 JTD 150 bhp, and with new items of equipment in four different packages, focusing on elegance, comfort and sportsmanship.

Interior and updated safety equipment
In the interior of the new Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon, whose last update was in 2009, have been renewed and slightly materials design dashboard, center console and door panels have been repositioned decorative aluminum inserts and have been modified trim levels that now have been reduced to three: Progression, Distinctive and Elegance. Also, new upholstery for the seats highlighting especially the leather and fabric upholstered seats and in black or beige Distinctive finish. In black color upholstery, dashboard and center tunnel equipped with chrome inlays, with treatment of three layers and dark brushed aluminum.

Safety features of the new Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon has been strengthened with electronic devices that now are standard on all mechanical versions, featuring Dynamic Stability Control VDC, ASR traction control, hill start assistant and Hill Holder seven airbags (two front, two side, two curtain airbags and driver knee).

Four new optional equipment packages
Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon 2011 may see increased their equipment, with any of the four available packages and complete the equipment according to their preferences, with two for increasing the driving comfort and two that increase sportsmanship.

Specifically, the equipment Progression offers Comfort and Sport packages, and can be purchased together or separately. The Comfort Package available system media player and the new multimedia interface and communication Blue & Me, developed by Fiat and Microsoft to the hands-free phone with radio controls on steering wheel, cruise control, exterior mirrors, electrically folding, front fog lamps and front seats tilt.

The second package, called Comfort Plus, complete equipment with a navigation system that includes digital mapping of all European countries, dual tuner and digital radio (DAB) and the visibility pack, consisting of photochromic interior mirror and sensor rain.

The Sport package more focused on sportsmanship and enhancement of this quality both in the body as the carrier adds, Comfort package, aluminum alloy wheels of 17 inch diameter titanium-finished and side skirts. In the cockpit, the electroluminescent instrumentation becomes white, are aluminum pedals and both the steering wheel and the knob of the gearshift lever are leather.

The aggressive aesthetic is available with the IT package, which includes seats upholstered in a mixed combination of leather and Alcantara in black with red stitching, aluminum pedals with the TI logo, sports steering wheel with integrated controls, suspensions with firmer spring rates, aluminum alloy wheels 18 inches in diameter (19-inch premium) in turbine design and brake calipers painted in red and inlays of carbon fiber interior.

More efficient mechanical
The new Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon is available in combination with a mechanical petrol and three diesel, all, meet the Euro 5 emissions standard. The mechanical versions 1750 Turbo petrol 200 hp (also mounted on the new Giulietta) and 2.0 JTDM 170 CV do not differ, although the latter has an ECO version, thanks to the adoption of green tires designed to reduce resistance friction and a new relationship of change that reduces fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of 2.0 JTDM 170 CV and ECO, with 139 grams per kilometer.

The diesel versions are now available to 1.9 JTD 150 bhp 120 and disappear in favor of a new 136-horsepower diesel engine, two-liter displacement and the most advanced technology common rail direct injection and variable geometry turbocharger, with the providing 350 Newton meters of torque maximum from a system extremely low, there are 1,750 revolutions per minute.

Associated with a manual gearbox with six speeds, offers a top speed of 200 km / h accelerating from zero to 100 km / h in just 10.1 seconds. The average consumption in combined cycle is 5.2 liters per hundred kilometers and CO2 emissions of 137 grams per kilometer.