Category: Affordable Sports 
Price Range: £23,920 to £29,420
Dramatic concept car styling, great-sounding engines, crisp handling with good ride, stylish cabin, panoramic glass roof
Limited space in the back, steering lacks true road feel, transmission can be clunky
Giugiaro's 2002 concept-car-made-real is a rapid, properly sporting coupe with a full complement of Alfa virtues.
The usual boxes are ticked here, with seven airbags as standard and a passenger kneebag optional, and stability control - Alfa Romeo calls it VDC rather than ESP - as standard. This Vehicle Dynamic Control includes a hill-holder device acting on the brakes to stop rolling back on a hill start. Tyre-pressure monitors are standard. The lack of a mechanical steering lock improves the safety of the driver's knees, and the fact that the lock is electronic improves security. The pedals are designed to collapse under heavy impact, too. There's no EuroNCAP rating yet but it would be surprising if the Brera didn't score at least four stars.
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