2007 Alfa 159 Sportwagon Review

Range options and equipment

The Alfa 159 Sportwagon range is proposed with 7 engines, 2 or 3 outfits (depending on the market), 12 body-colours and 5 interiors in 5 different shades (black, grey tone-on-tone, black and beige, beige tone-on-tone, black and grey) in a choice of flocked fabric, Alfatex, leather and fine-grain ‘pieno fiore’ leather by Frau. The range also offers all customers, even the most demanding, a choice between different features and devices, as well as a range of unique financial and rental formulae.

INTERNAL EQUIPMENT:

• Electric front and rear windows with automatic up-down function and simultaneous window opening device with anti-pinch function
  
• Height-adjustable rear centre head-restraint
  
• Front heel-high protective strip with stainless steel insert
• Front armrest with storage unit and insulated unit
• Padded armrest on rear seat with ski tunnel
• Electronic key with remote door and boot control
• Central locking
• Automatic climate system with dual-zone temperature and distribution control (with rear air vents, active carbon pollen filter and AQS)
• Automatic tri-zone climate system (with rear air vents, active carbon pollen filter and AQS)
• Steering wheel mounted radio/telephone controls 
• Electric bonnet release from inside car
• 5 mm thick front side windows
• Cruise control 
• Exclusion of engine logo on rear
• Luggage compartment lighting
• Diffused overhead lighting of front compartment
• Engine oil level gauge
• Inside centralised door opening/release switch 
• Facia glove compartment light

INTERIORS EQUIPMENT

• Front door puddle lights
• Softouch metalluro trims
• Aluminium trims
• Windscreen with reflecting infrared sheet, dark anti-glare strip and heated wiper area
• Front and rear ceiling lights with reading light
• Spectacles holder
• Luggage/ski rack attachment fitment 
• Ignition button
• Heated front seats with 3 temperature levels
• Split, asymmetrically folding rear seat with storage unit in armrest (60/40)
• Front seats with manual adjustment (height, rake, lumber support for driver and passenger)
• Mechanical tilting of driver’s and passenger seat
• Seats with electrical adjustment and driver’s side memory, and heated electrical door mirrors with memory of driver’s side
• Leather seats
• Frau ‘Pieno Fiore’ leather seats
• Seats upholstered in Alfatex cloth
• Seats upholstered in flocked cloth
• Driver’s and passenger’s vanity mirror on sun visor with built-in lightin
• Onboard instruments with white light and multifunction display
• Onboard instruments with red light and multifunction display
• Interior carpeting in tufted velour
• Manual rear sun shade
• Trip Computer (two independent trip computers measuring range, consumption, average speed, distance covered)
• Home link 
• Steering wheel with axial and height adjustment 
• Leather steering wheel and knob

Pricing

•  159 Sportwagon 1.9 JTS Turismo 5dr MRP: 40,985$

•  159 Sportwagon 2.2 JTS Lusso 5dr MRP: 45,640$

•  159 Sportwagon 2.2 JTS Turismo 5dr MRP: 42,920$

   159 Sportwagon 3.2 V6 JTS Q4 Lusso 5dr MRP: 57,025$

Engine