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Alfa Romeo 147

The Alfa Romeo 147 is a compact hatchback built by Alfa Romeo from 2000 to 2010 with three-door and five-door bodies and a high-performance GTA version.

Alfa Romeo 156

The Alfa Romeo 156, also sold as the Alfa 156, is an Italian compact executive sports saloon produced from 1997 to 2005 that won touring car titles.

Alfa Romeo 159

The Alfa Romeo 159 (Type 939) is a compact executive car produced by Alfa Romeo from 2005 to 2011 as the successor to the Alfa 156, in saloon and Sportwagon forms.

Alfa Romeo 164

The Alfa Romeo 164 (Tipo 164) is a four-door executive sedan produced by Alfa Romeo from 1987 to 1998, with Pininfarina styling and front-wheel drive.

Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale

The Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale is a mid-engined sports car built from 1967 to 1969 as the road version of the Tipo 33 racer, with 18 made.

Alfa Romeo 4C

The Alfa Romeo 4C, also known as the Alfa 4C, is a lightweight Italian mid-engined sports car produced by Alfa Romeo from 2014 to 2019 in coupé and Spider versions.

Alfa Romeo 690T engine

The Alfa Romeo 690T is a 2.9-liter twin-turbo V6 petrol engine, announced in 2015 and built in Termoli, Italy, that powers the Giulia and Stelvio Quadrifoglio with 510 hp.

Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione

The Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione is a sports coupé produced in a limited run of 500 cars from 2007 to 2008, with a Ferrari-built 4.7-liter V8.

Alfa Romeo Alfetta

The Alfa Romeo Alfetta (Tipo 116) is a four-door sports sedan built by Alfa Romeo at Arese near Milan from 1972 to 1984, with over 475,000 sold.

Alfa Romeo Brera and Spider

The Alfa Romeo Brera and Spider are sporting cars built from 2005 to 2010, sharing the 939 platform with the Alfa 159 and praised for their Giugiaro design.

Alfa Romeo Giulia

The Alfa Romeo Giulia is a compact executive sedan produced by Alfa Romeo in two generations: the original saloon of 1962 to 1978 and a modern sports sedan launched in 2015.

Alfa Romeo GTV and Spider

The Alfa Romeo GTV and Spider (Type 916) are a Pininfarina-styled coupé and convertible produced from 1995 to 2005, the last Alfa Romeos built at Arese.

Alfa Romeo in Formula One

Alfa Romeo in Formula One: Milanese marque that won the first two F1 Drivers' Championships (1950 Farina, 1951 Fangio) with the Alfetta 158/159, raced as a constructor 1979-1985, and sponsored Sauber as Alfa Romeo Racing from 2018 to 2023 before Audi's takeover.

Alfa Romeo Junior (2024)

The Alfa Romeo Junior is a compact crossover SUV produced by Alfa Romeo in Poland and launched in 2024 as the brand's first fully electric model, originally named Milano.

Alfa Romeo MiTo

The Alfa Romeo MiTo, also known as Mi.To, is a three-door supermini Alfa Romeo produced at Turin's Mirafiori plant from 2008 to 2018, with about 293,000 built.

Alfa Romeo Spider

The Alfa Romeo Spider is a two-seat convertible roadster made by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1966 to 1994, popularly called the Duetto and featured in The Graduate.

Alfa Romeo Stelvio

The Alfa Romeo Stelvio is a mid-size SUV produced by Alfa Romeo since 2017, the brand's first SUV, built on the Giorgio platform shared with the Giulia sedan.

Alfa Romeo V6 engine

The Alfa Romeo V6 engine, known as the Busso V6 after designer Giuseppe Busso, is a 60-degree V6 petrol engine produced by Alfa Romeo from 1979 to 2005.

Alfa-Bank (Альфа-Банк)

Alfa-Bank (Альфа-Банк), formally Alfa-Bank JSC, is a Russian universal commercial bank founded in December 1990 and the country's largest private bank, third-largest overall as of 2025.

Alfa-class submarine

The Alfa-class submarine, Soviet designation Project 705 Lira, was a small, very fast Soviet nuclear attack submarine with a titanium hull and lead-bismuth reactor, entering service in the 1970s.

Alfaaz

Alfaaz (Amanjot Singh Panwar), Chandigarh-born Punjabi singer, lyricist, and actor; Mafia Mundeer member and Honey Singh collaborator behind "Haye Mera Dil", "Yaar Bathere", "Birthday Bash", and 2025's "Laal Pari". Distinct from other artists named Alfaaz.

Alfabet

Alfabet is a 1981 long poem by the Danish poet Inger Christensen, whose fourteen sections from A to N grow along the Fibonacci sequence while cataloging nature and nuclear threat.

Alfacalcidol

Alfacalcidol (1α-hydroxycholecalciferol) is a synthetic vitamin D3 analog and calcitriol prodrug that needs no kidney activation, used for chronic kidney disease bone disease, secondary hyperparathyroidism, hypoparathyroidism, and osteoporosis.

Alfajor

Alfajor (from Arabic al-hasu, "filling"): a confection of thin baked dough pieces joined by dulce de leche or, in Andalusia, a honey-almond-spice paste. South American staple, especially Argentina, with regional varieties and Medina Sidonia PGI in Spain.

Alfalfa

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa), also called lucerne, is a perennial forage legume grown as hay and pasture for livestock; ancient crop domesticated in southwest Asia, deep-rooted nitrogen fixer, 50.2 million tons of US hay in 2025.

Alfalfa mosaic virus

Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV, Alfamovirus AMV), a tripartite positive-sense RNA plant virus in Bromoviridae with bacilliform virions, needs coat protein bound to RNA 3′ ends for infectivity and spreads nonpersistently by aphids and via seed in alfalfa and pepper.

Alfar Romano de Cartuja

Alfar Romano de Cartuja: Roman high-imperial pottery complex (1st-2nd centuries AD) on Granada's Cartuja campus, first terra sigillata hispánica production center found in Baetica, with 14 kilns, dolia, and common wares.

Alfaxalone

Alfaxalone (alphaxalone), a synthetic neuroactive steroid GABA_A-acting anesthetic sold as Alfaxan, is used for induction and maintenance of veterinary anesthesia in dogs, cats, and many minor species; cyclodextrin formulation replaced Cremophor-based Saffan.

Alfedena

Alfedena is a comune in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy, in the Sangro valley near the ancient Samnite city of Aufidena and its necropolis.

Alfentanil

Alfentanil (Rapifen) is a short-acting synthetic opioid analgesic derived from fentanyl and given intravenously during anesthesia. Synthesized by Janssen in 1976, it is a DEA Schedule II controlled substance.