The Alfa Romeo Mito is now available with Fiat’s TwinAir powerplant, a unit previously only available on the Fiat 500, Punto and Panda. The two-cylinder Mito costs from £14,150.
The turbocharged, 875cc, two-pot engine has a power output of 84bhp. Alfa Romeo claims that the TwinAir-powered Mito will achieve a combined fuel economy of 67.3mpg, with 98g/km of CO2.
Performance figures are a claimed 12.5sec to 62mph from standing, with a 108mph top speed.
Despite the initial purchase premium over the £12,500 1.4-litre 8v base model, the new Mito variant is road tax and London Congestion Charge exempt, saving buyers ‘up to £2500 per year’, according to the Italian firm's figures.
Two trim levels are offered on the Mito TwinAir – Sprint and Distinctive (priced at £15,130) - the latter of which features 17-inch sports alloys, chrome touches to the car’s exterior, and red brake callipers.
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Concrete mixer?
However good this power unit is and there are real doubts as to whether the claimed economy is really there, the image is completely wrong for a vehicle of this kind. Concrete mixers and dumper trucks have two (or three) cylinder engines, not fairly high end motorcars.
The Mito is the sort of vehicle one would dearly love to challenge the German hegemony in partnership with the DS3 but, instead, it seems to be losing out to the latter as well as the A.1. A colleague who is a long standing Alfa owner, borrowed one whilst his vehicle was being serviced and was singularly unimpressed. He felt that the ride was unduly hard and the handling unimpressive.
Yee Gods!! ...
Amazing though the TwinAir engine is, Fiat has obviously not learnt that 875cc can only do so much, and whilst it suits the 500 and the Panda, it didn't suit the Punto! ... And to option 17" sports alloys and red callipers on an 'Alfa Romeo' that does 0-62 in a tardy 12.5 seconds is embarrassing to say the least!! ...
Alfa Mito TwinAir
What an abomination!
An Alfa with only 2 cylinders - they may as well have bought Ducati because 2 cylinders are all they can offer at absurd prices! That is why bike racing regs have had to be interfered with for years so that the Japanese makes didn't walk away with all the trophies.
Personally I want at least 4 cylinders on a motorbike and for a car 4 is an absolute minimum, with 6 or 8 infinitely preferable.