USED Alfa Romeo 145 Hatchback (94 - 01)

My car

This is a fantastic fun little car with real 90's hot hatch appeal.

I owned mine - a black 145 cloverleaf for 2 years. The engine really makes the car. It delivers a fantastic unique alfa rasp from the standard exhaust and handling is fairly tidy albeit a bit tail happy in the wet. The standard Sony 10 disc CD changer in the boot is a cracker and miles better than the system in the subaru I now own.

I rate the interior as probably the best cloth seats on any car - you will not miss leather. It can comfortably fit 2 mountain bikes in the back thanks to seats that fold almost completely flat.

It's getting a bit old in the tooth now compared to modern cars but 150bhp gives it enough go and with the noise it always feels faster than it really is.

For a 2.0 petrol engine it was relatively thirsty achieving 25mpg in mixed driving, not great when compared with the Clio 172 or similar. The Cam belt is an expensive job at £450ish from independents and it pays to find a used one all the belts and variator done (supposed to be every 36k). plenty going cheap with 80k on the clock but these usually are needing the cambelt done.

Recommended if you can find a good one with cambelt, 2 red keys and the brown master key...