Category: Affordable Sports 
Price Range: £20,400 to £25,000
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.
Front, side and curtain airbags help protect in a crash, and there are three three-point seatbelts for the rear seat - unusual in a coupe. The structure has the usual front-end bracing and side-impact resistance expected in a modern car, and a good set of electronic aids towards avoiding the accident in the first place. These include Brake Assist, traction control and VDC (Vehicle Dynamic Control), Alfa Romeo's version of ESP. It can't be turned off, but its intervention is so gentle and subtle you hardly know it's happening.
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