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Alfa Romeo Brera: Now Automatically Beautiful!

The Alfa Romeo Brera can now move with seductive smoothness to match its sexual flowing styling with the Alfa Romeo coupe now available with the all-new Alfa Romeo Q-Tronic automatic gearbox.

"Alfa Romeo has traditionally believed that sports cars could only have a manual gearbox as this was the only way that they could fully deliver their sporting prowess," explains David Stone, General Manager for Alfa Romeo in Australia. "And, therefore, it has taken a self-shifting gearbox of exceptional ability to change minds in favour of an automatic. Thus the Q-Tronic gearbox minimizes performance loss, indeed, at 240 kmh; the automatic Brera V6 has the same top speed as its manual counterpart. The 'Sport' mode enables automatic shifting with real aggression and decisiveness and, when the driver calls for it, there is full manual override available with Tiptronic style gear selection."

"This new gearbox really enables the driver of the Brera 3.2 V6 to have the maximum driving excitement, plus the convenience of a self-shifting gearbox," says Mr Stone.

Supplied by Asien, but thoroughly adapted to its application in the Alfa Romeo Brera, the Q-Tronic gearbox is an all-new design and is available the range-topping 3.2 litre JTS V6 engine. It enables the Brera to be driven in automatic mode with all the functions typical of an automatic transmission (parking, reverse, neutral and drive) or in sequential mode by simply moving the gear selector in a Tiptronic-style mode.

The 'Q-Tronic' name continues the Alfa Romeo tradition of using the letter 'Q' to indicate the most sophisticated technology developed by the company: from the famous Quadrifoglio to the 'Q4' of the permanent four wheel drive. The term Tronic, on the other hand, adds that the system is controlled by a smart electronic control unit that governs optimum gear shifts.