Split gauge cluster looks freakishly like a modern digital instrument pack and touchscreen setup
deserves some serious spotlight time. Not only because it’s great value and handles beautifully as it shares a drivetrain layout with a Ferrari, but because its strangely mutated dashboard design was years ahead of its time.
A quick history lesson: the 1972 Alfetta sedan and 1974 coupe replaced the classic 105/115-series Giulia sedan and coupe of the 1960s and early 1970s, and took their name from the successful 1950s Tipo 159 Alfetta grand prix race cars.
There is some logic to the weirdness. This being an old Alfa, and so a true driver’s car, the only gauge directly ahead of the driver is a rev counter. That’s it. All the other superfluous stuff like the speedo and fuel gauge is way over in the center of the dashboard in a separate, much larger binnacle.
For practical, legal road driving it’s an ergonomic disaster, and for years I thought it was pretty hideous. But looking at the shape and layout of those gauge packs it’s impossible not to see similarities with a modern car like the, or any number of cars built in the last 10 years fitted with tablet-style touchscreens, such as the Citroën C4 Cactus. Even the sliding heater controls underneath the Alfa’s center pod look like the ones on the Volkswagen.
If you fancy a slice of bizarrely prophetic and under-appreciated Alfa Romeo dashboard design for yourself with just 39,854 miles on those oddball clocks, the fabulously original Italian-market 1975 Alfetta GT 1800 seen here is up for
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