Unfortunately it is quite difficult to get in the property of colour cards for the series I Alfasud and Sprint. In addition many of the available cards don not give information about whether one colour was available for one model only or the entire Alfasud range. Please note that the colours shown here can never give the true tone and brilliance as a real paint can do.

Alfasud, ti Giardinetta and ti (series I)
 

	Rosso Alfa			Rosso Corallo since 1975			Arancio Capua 1977-78
	Bianco Capodimonte			Blu Posillipo			Verde Ischia 1972-74 (not for ti and L)
	Giallo Pompei since 1976			Blu Procida 1972-74			Grigio Vesuvio 1972-74
	Grigio Somma since 1975			Verde Matese since 1975			Giallo Pozzuoli since 1976 (not for ti)
	Beige Ponza 1972-74			Verde Faito metallizzato since 1974 (not for Alfasud N)			Beige Cuma metallizzato 1974-77 (not for Alfasud N)
	Grigio Nisida metallizzato since 1974  (not for Alfasud N)

After the launch of the Alfasud in 1972 the choice of colours was very small. Besides the classic  Rosso Alfa there were two tones of blue, Blu Procida and Blu Posillipo, Beige Ponza, Verde Ischia, Grigio Vesuvio and Bianco Capodimonte. All colours except Rosso Alfa bear the names of places in Italy. Posillipo is a little town at the coast near Naples; Ponza, Procida and Ischia are islands in the Golf of Naples and Capodimonte is a town at the Lago di Bolsena north of Rome. Grigio Vesuvio bears the name of Naples volcano Vesuv. Since about 1975 the range of colours gets wider and more colourful.

Alfasud Super, Giardinetta and ti (series II)
 

	Bianco Capodimonte (BIOA)			Blu Posillipo (BLOD)			Giallo Pozzuoli (GTAS)
	Rosso Corallo (ROAN) not for the Italian market			Rosso Alfa (ROAA)			Verde Matese (VMSA) not for the Italian market
	Giallo Pompei (GPAS)			Bruno Cilento (BNAS)			Grigio Indaco (GRIN) not for the Italian market
	Verde Pino (VEPI)			Nero (NEAS) not for Giardinetta			Grigio Nisida metallizzato (GMAS) not for Alfasud N, Giardinetta
	Marone Testa di Moro (MTDM) since 1980 not for  Giardinetta			Verde Faito metallizzato (VMAS) not for the Italian market and Alfasud N and Giardinetta

Alfasud and Alfasud Ti (series III)
 

	Rosso Alfa (ROAA)			Bruno Cilento (BNAS)			Blu Posillipo (BLOD)
	Nero (NEAS)			Marone Testa di Moro (MTDM)			Avorio (AVOO)
	Bianco Capodimonte (BIOA)			Grigio Nisida metallizzato (GMAS)			Verde Aqua metallizzato (VAMT) since 1982
	Cuivre metallizzato (RCMT) ab 1982

With the launch of the series III in 1980 Alfa Romeo introduced a reworked range of colours. The bright colours of the Seventies disappeared in favour of more decent colours. The names also changed. Now the name of the colour described the colour itself. (But who in the world would name a colour head of a coloured person? In France it was even called Tête de négre... ) The Alfasud 1.5 QO / GCL was offered with three different tones of metallic paint as standard equipment: Grigio Nisida, Verde Aqua and Cuivre (copper). Some GCLs were also sold in Rosso Alfa.

The Alfasud Ti 1.5 QV was only available in very few colours: Rosso Alfa, Nero and as optional in Grigio Nisida metallizzato. This starts a tradition. Top of the range cars of one model were from now on often only available in three colours. (Remember the ARNA 1.3 Ti and the 164 3.0 V6 QV). The Alfasud Ti 1.3 was available in the metallic paints of the Alfasud 1.5 QO from 1982 on.

Alfasud Sprint series I / II
 

	Bianco Capodimonte (BIOA)			Blu Posillipo (BLOD)			Giallo Pozzuoli (GTAS)
	Rosso Corallo (ROAN) not for the Italian market			Rosso Alfa (ROAA)			Verde Matese (VMSA) not for the Italian market
	Giallo Pompei (GPAS)			Bruno Cilento (BNAS)			Grigio Indaco (GRIN) not for the Italian market
	Verde Pino (VEPI)			Nero (NEAS)			Avorio (AVOO) since 1980
	Verde Faito metallizzato (VMAS) not for the Italian market			Grigio Nisida metallizzato (GMAS)

Sprint series III
 

	Rosso Alfa (ROAA)			Nero (NEAS)			Bianco Capodimonte (BIOA) till 1986
	Avorio (AVOO) nur Sprint 1.3 till 1986			Marone Testa di Moro (MTDM) nur Sprint 1.3 till 1986			Grigio Nisida metallizzato (GMAS) till 1986
	Verde Aqua metallizzato (VAMT) nur Sprint 1.3 till 1986			Cuivre metallizzato (RCMT) nur Sprint 1.3 till 1986			Bianco Argento metallizzato (BGMT) since 1987

Buyers of the Sprint 1.5 QV could only chose between the colours Rosso Alfa, Bianco Capodimonte, Nero and Grigio Nisida metallizzato while the Sprint 1.3 was available in further metallic colours (coming from the range of colours of the Alfasud series III) in the beginning of its career.

With the launch of the Sprint 1.7 QV three colours remain in the range: Rosso Alfa, Nero and the new tone Bianco Argento metallizzato.

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Last Update: January, 14th 2007    Created: July, 25th 2000

© Layout and text by Tim Rauen. Many thanks to Rody Bal for supporting this page with a scan of colour card for the Alfasud series I!