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Edward Fox, as the Jackal, in 1973's The Day of the
Jackal drives a white Giulietta Spider. He repaints
the car blue in a rented garage to avoid police, then
crashes the car.
Giulietta Masina in Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits
is courted by a "Romeo" in a Giulietta (Spider),
a double play on words.
Alfa Romeo Giulias appear as Polizia cars in the 1969
movie The Italian Job. During the chase in Turin they
all suffer some sort of fate, from breaking down on
top of a building to being washed away by a weir.
Alfa Romeo motorcars are recognised by all Motor enthusiasts
as being the first "supercar", with the term
being coined in the 1920s by a British journalist to
describe an Alfa Romeo. Some notable owners include
Beppe Carletti (Musician, Retailer), Jeremy Christian
(Classic Track Driver, Writer), Jeremy Clarkson (Motoring
Journalist), Alex Hucksley (Actor, Stock Broker), Roger
Moore (Actor) and Michael Schumacher (F1 Driver).
The Hosting team of the popular British motoring interest
show Top Gear often state that a car enthusiast must
have owned an Alfa Romeo at some point before they can
be considered a true petrolhead (meaning an extreme
car enthusiast).
In Dan Brown's novel Angels & Demons, the members
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Alfa
Romeo has been a part of the Fiat Group since 1986.
In the 1960s Alfa Romeo became famous for its small
cars and models specifically designed for the Italian
police - "Panthers" and Carabinieri; among
them the glorious "Giulia Super" or the
2600 Sprint GT.
In Italian the owner of an Alfa Romeo is an "Alfista",
and a group of them are "Alfisti". Alfa
Romeo is sometimes worshipped by its owners, and many
models have become cultural symbols. There are many
thriving Alfa Romeo owners clubs and Alfa Romeo Model
Registers. In 1967 the famous Dustin Hoffman film
The Graduate gave worldwide unforgettable celebrity
to the "Spider" (best known by the Italian
nickname of "Duetto", or as "Osso di
Seppia," meaning "cuttlefish bone,"
or Round-tail), and its unique shape. The Spider was
designed by Pininfarina; derived from several design
studies dating back to the late 1950s, the Spider
is believed to be the last design on which Battista
Farina personally worked.
Also James Bond (Roger Moore) used an Alfa Romeo,
the GTV6 in 1983's Octopussy, where he is pursued
by two Bavarian BMW police cars.
In the television crime film series Ein Fall für
Zwei ("a case for two", over 250 episodes
made so far), the leading actor Claus Theo Gärtner,
who plays the role of the private detective Josef
Matula, has always been driving Alfa Romeo, starting
from Giulia Super to the latest Alfa Romeo models.
Alfa Romeo had also "role" in other German
detective serie Kommissar Rex (Inspector Rex). At
the beginning Tobias Moretti drove a 155 and later
Gedeon Burkhard drove 166.
Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in The Godfather, drove
a magnificent, black Alfa Romeo 6C while in exile
in Sicily. This was actually the car that was booby-trapped
and explodes with Apollonia, his Sicilian wife, in
it toward the end of the movie.
John Malkovich, as Tom Ripley, in Ripley's Game, drives
a red Alfa Romeo 156 Sportwagon.
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