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Auto Avio Costruzioni Tunes Second Alfa 159, Battle with Ferrari Continues

By ekkii | Published Friday, December 23, 2011

If you are a frequent Carscoop reader, you may recall a story that we wrote in October about Laurent Muller, the man who bought the rights to the Auto Avio Costruzioni trademark in 2004.

Muller’s original goal was to build a supercar based on the Ferrari 430, but with a V12 engine instead of the production version’s eight-cylinder unit.

However, as soon as he announced his plans in 2008, Ferrari filed a lawsuit against him claiming that it still owned the rights to the Auto Avio Costruzioni name, as it was used by Enzo Ferrari for a short period after leaving Alfa Romeo and before founding the car company that carries his name.

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Alfa Romeo 159 Car Review, features, specification, prices

By ekkii | Published Thursday, June 16, 2011

The acknowledged brilliant of the 2005 Geneva International Motor Show, the Alfa Romeo 159 fabricated its bazaar debut. The architect of the new ancestors that will alter the Alfa Romeo 156,

Alfa Romeo 159 Car Review, features, specification, prices

and accordingly the beneficiary to a acknowledged archetypal (over 680,000 units accept been awash back 1997), this aboriginal alehouse takes up the baton, to become the new criterion in its segment