They contribute enormously to the feelings I have about the country and its people, its art and its culture, its design masterpieces and its industrial products. About a handful of 2500s which sold to Hollywood stars, Russia s dictator, Egypt s king, a Philippine playboy. About the 1900 and Giulietta with which the Portello works and the workshops of Farina and Touring and Bertone compressed decades of change in a few years. That part of Italy had made it into the sixties, as modern as anything in industrial England or Germany, gaining so much and losing so little in the process. Many will differ, looking instead at the blight of industrialization and pollution on an idyllic agrarian paradise.
History is never that neat, but it can be interesting, worth a look and a few questions.
There is more to Alfa than a car and a company.