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==Production== [[File:AlfaRomeoArese3.jpg|thumb|Alfa Romeo's plant in Arese]] In the 1960s, the main Alfa Romeo factory was moved from inside Milan to a very large and nearby area extending over the municipalities of [[Arese]], [[Lainate]] and [[Garbagnate Milanese]]. However, since then the factory was moved to Arese, as the offices and the main entrance of the area were located there. In the late 1960s, a number of European automobile manufacturers established facilities in South Africa to assemble right hand drive vehicles. [[Fiat]] and other Italian manufacturers established factories along with these other manufacturers, Alfa-Romeos were assembled in [[Brits, North West|Brits]], outside [[Pretoria]] in the [[Transvaal Province]] of South Africa. With the imposition of sanctions by Western powers in the 1970s and 1980s, South Africa became self-sufficient, and in car production came to rely more and more on the products from local factories. This led to a set of circumstances where between 1972 and 1989, South Africa had the greatest number of Alfa Romeos on the road outside of Italy. The Alfa Romeos Brits plant was used from March 1983<ref name="TAM85">{{Cite book | title = Quattroruote: Tutte le Auto del Mondo 1985 | editor = Mastrostefano, Raffaele | publisher = Editoriale Domus S.p.A | ref = TAM85 | year = 1985 | pages = 30β31 | language = it | location = Milano | isbn = 88-7212-012-8 }}</ref> until late 1985 to build [[Daihatsu Charade]]s for local consumption, but also for export to Italy in order to skirt Italian limits on Japanese imports.<ref>{{Citation |url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/12466421/Automotive-Business-Review-February-2009 |title=A Sporting Heart Still Beats |last=Burford |first=Adrian |page=30 |journal=Automotive Business Review |issue=February 2009 |access-date=19 February 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090225090228/http://www.scribd.com/doc/12466421/Automotive-Business-Review-February-2009| archive-date= 25 February 2009 | url-status= live}} </ref> For the last year the company was operating, the Daihatsu represented close to half of Alfa Romeo S.A. Ltd.'s total production.<ref name=Wards87>{{cite book | ref = WYB87 | title=Ward's Automotive Yearbook 1987 |publisher=Ward's Communications, Inc | location = Detroit, MI |editor-last = Stark | editor-first = Harry A. | volume = 49 | date = 1987 | page = 86 | isbn = ((0-910589-00-7)) | quote = 3,136 from a total of 6,435 cars built in 1985. }}</ref><!-- This invalid ISBN is indeed printed (twice) in the book. It seems that they obtained a valid ISBN for Ward's Automotive Yearbook 1983, 0-910589-00-3, and then just incremented that in the following years, resulting in invalid ISBNs. You can see the printed ISBNs here: 1983: https://books.google.de/books?redir_esc=y&id=Gdy1AAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=ISBN 1984: https://books.google.de/books?redir_esc=y&id=IOO1AAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=ISBN 1985: https://books.google.de/books?redir_esc=y&id=t4lTAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=ISBN 1986: https://books.google.de/books?redir_esc=y&id=p8q1AAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=ISBN 1987: https://books.google.de/books?redir_esc=y&id=TXlaAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=ISBN --> In late 1985, with the impending Fiat takeover and an [[Disinvestment from South Africa|international boycott]] of the South African [[Apartheid]] government, Alfa Romeo withdrew from the market and closed the plant. During the 1990s, Alfa Romeo moved car production to other districts in Italy. The [[Alfa Romeo Pomigliano d'Arco Plant|Pomigliano dβArco plant]] produced the 155, followed by the 145 and the 146, while the [[Alfa Romeo Arese Plant|Arese plant]] manufactured the SZ and RZ sports cars, the 164, the new Spider and the GTV. The 156 was launched in 1997 and in 1998 was voted "Car of the Year". The same year a new flagship, the 166 (assembled in Rivalta, near Turin) was launched. At the beginning of the third millennium, the 147 was released, which won the title of "Car of the Year 2001". In 2003 the Arese factory was closed while only having some offices and the [[Alfa Romeo Museum|Alfa Romeo Historical Museum]]. {| class="wikitable" style="float:left;"' |- ! colspan="4"| Assembly plants by model<ref name="fiatgroup.com/it-it">{{cite web|url=http://www.fiatgroup.com/it-it/mediacentre/group/Documents/MEDIAKIT_2009_ITA/FGA.pdf|title=Fiat Group Automobiles|access-date=20 May 2009|work=fiatgroup.com/it-it|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304010745/http://www.fiatgroup.com/it-it/mediacentre/group/Documents/MEDIAKIT_2009_ITA/FGA.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- |'''Plant'''||'''Owner'''||'''Location'''||'''Model(s)''' |- |[[Fiat Cassino Plant|Cassino]] |Stellantis |[[Piedimonte San Germano]], Italy |[[Alfa Romeo Giulia (2015)|Giulia]], [[Alfa Romeo Stelvio|Stelvio]] |- |[[Alfa Romeo Pomigliano d'Arco plant|Pomigliano]] |Stellantis |[[Pomigliano d'Arco]], Italy |[[Alfa Romeo Tonale|Tonale]] |- |[[FCA Poland|Tychy]] |Stellantis |[[Tychy]], Poland |[[Alfa Romeo Junior (2024)|Junior]] |} {{Clear}}
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