Category: Affordable Sports 
Price Range: £20,400 to £24,100
Muscular but understated looks, gutsy engines, agile handling, roomy and practical for a coupe.
Brera is better-looking and newer; V6 has a terrible turning circle.
Best-handling and smoothest-riding of the 147/156 family, the good-value, practical GT is still worth considering despite the advent of the Brera.
The 147/156-based front-wheel-drive GT continues on sale despite the launch of the more modern Brera, and has its advantages. While the Brera's a cramped 2+2, the GT is a proper four-seater which can even swallow five happily at a push. It's also a hatchback with foldable rear seats, and is really quite practical.
Styled by Bertone, the GT isn't as traffic-stopping stunning as the Brera, but it neatly incorporates classic and current Alfa styling cues such as a Brera-esque front end, scooped-out sides like the 147, 166 and 1960s Duetto/Spider, and slender wraparound 147/156 tail-lights.
The 3.2 V6 (240bhp) has now been dropped from the new line-up, which has been slimmed down to just two engines: the 2.0-litre, direct-injection JTS petrol unit with 165bhp, and the 1.9-litre, 16-valve, JTD turbodiesel (150bhp).
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