It could be called the cousin of the 155 V6 TI, but the risk is to belittle his good looks. While in the DTM Alfa Romeo undermined the German certainties with its D1 class, the 155 was also set up to attack the local super-tourism championships, with a version D2 also called 155 TS. The car, less elaborate than the one that raced and won in the famous series based in Germany, was equipped with a 2.0-liter TS 8v engine as standard. It also had various satisfactions, despite the presence of various regulations in the mid-90s which led it to be more or less distant, aesthetically, from the 155 road.
Today an original Alfa Romeo 155 D2 can be worth hundreds of thousands of euros. We are about 300 thousand euros, relative to the estimate made by Autoluce, a company with a showroom in Modena, for an example dated 1996 which is for sale. This is a car that was also brought to the track by the former F1 Stefano Modena, a driver who has certainly been less successful than he deserved. It was 1997, and the car was entered by JAS Motorsport in the championship ADAC Deutsche Super Touren Wagen-Cup. On the red bodywork it still bears the original sponsors and the race number, 36. The car for sale has obtained an Abarth Heritage certificate.
The 155 in the D2 version was not particularly brilliant with Modena, because in that year the model was already dated compared to the competition. However it had numerous successes previously: in 1994 he won the British BTC, with Gabriele Tarquini driving the car based on the historic Silverstone version; in 1994, 1995 and 1997 he conquered the Spanish Cet with Adrian Campos, Luis Villamil and Fabrizio Giovanardi. While in the DTM version the aerodynamic development was exaggerated, the D2 version has essentially standard lines, obviously not considering the rear wing and the bumper area. In the case of the Modena car, the configuration is different from Tarquini’s British one.
The transmission of the Alfa Romeo 155 D2 is entrusted to a 6-speed Hewland sequential gearbox with self-locking differential. as far as the suspension is concerned, at the front there is a McPherson scheme with Bilstein shock absorbers, coil springs and roll bar, while at the rear there is the independent wheel layout with single-arm suspension and stabilizer bar. The brakes are Brembo with 4 pistons. And it is obviously beautiful, thanks to its sporting history.
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