This beautiful coupe was styled by Ital Design founder Giorgetto Giugiaro during his time as a stylist at Bertone. Based on a shortened Giulia chassis, the GTV was one of the best looking Alfa's ever (in this authors opinion anyway!) and lasted in production from 1966 until 1977 with only minor styling changes. The 1750 GTV version as modeled here by AUTOart had a 1.8 litre 118bhp four cylinder engine driving the rear wheels through a five speed gearbox. For it's day it was a sporting car to drive and as with most Alfa's it had a raspy exhaust note which sounded great!
The 1750 GTV was built between 1967 and 1972, and around 45,000 in total were built. Unfortunately, in common with many Italian cars of the 1960s and 70s, the GTV tended to rust badly over time and good quality surviving examples are quite rare.
This model is part of AUTOart's Millennium range which is meant to be even higher in quality than the rest of the AUTOart range of models, which are generally very good anyway. The engine, interior and the lights in particular are excellent on this model. The only area of weakness is the almost complete lack of brake detail. There are discs, but no callipers at all. Unusual for AUTOart as often their models have superb brake detail. I have noticed on similar Alfa models by Minichamps that this particular Alfa wheel design hides the brakes almost completely, so it seems model manufacturers don't bother to include unseen detail. A fair point, but on an expensive model it is nice to know every effort has been put in to make a top notch model. Additionally, for collectors who like to swap wheels on their models, lack of detailed brakes becomes obvious when a more open style of wheel is added to a model such as this one. As regular readers of this website might have noticed, I'm very much a fan of brake detail!!! Despite this failing I do think this is a very good model indeed.
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