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A truly healthy Alfa Romeo looks like the 156: an unprecedented charismatic design. Agile, slender, slender. Flamboyant, with just the right amount of Italian flair and above all: modernity!

After decades of investment and management trying different methods to revive Alfa, the Italian brand has once again hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons: ill-advised product decisions that steered sales numbers through poor design strategies. At least special, after absolute blockbusters like the 156, resulting from the right design strategies.

Alfa Romeo has a style mark

Alfa Romeo is not a style brand. It is the style brand. One of the few manufacturers known for not just building nice – but simply stunningly beautiful cars. Design is, even more than the brilliant technical discoveries made by the Italian brand, Alfa’s raison d’être.

Alfa Romeo 6C 2300 Mille Miglia from 1938.

For decades, Alfa Romeo owners have forgiven their brand very much. Simply because they got a magnificently designed car for their money. Alfa owners didn’t buy a car because they wanted a cheaper BMW, but because they liked the way Alfas were styled and how those looks set them apart from the mainstream motorist. A conscious choice to value style over reliability.

Against this backdrop, the choices of Alfa’s most recent entrants, the Giulia and Stelvio, are mind-boggling. The current range is weak, optically heavy and designed without any sense of balance or athleticism. Despite the so much better proportions that the rear-wheel drive platform offered the Giulia designers, their appearance can only be described by someone with any critical aesthetic ability as woefully bad due to the misplaced retro design. Unprecedented after the legendary progressive 156, 147 and 166.

Alfa Romeo Tonale has terrible basic proportions

Then the Tonal. It’s simply offensive. The car has really terrible basic proportions, which unfortunately only emphasize the detailed styling and surfacing. A cab forward body design. A huge front overhang with a nose that curls down like the specimen of an anteater. A large, massively drawn rear with again a gigantic overhang. This design also seriously lacks conceptual depth – the why – and the delicate shapes, elegance and creativity that should have resulted from it. An Alfa this bad looking isn’t an Alfa – it’s a waste of time and money.

The Tonale is particularly resonant, as it is the common thread through the wonderful history of Alfa Romeo design. There is a rich past that should have provided spiritual inspiration.

The highest price in Seoul was 1,683.2 won, down 14.1 won… 73.6 won higher than the average
Refinery supply prices are high for SK Energy and low for GS Caltex

[투데이에너지 조대인 기자] Gasoline selling prices at gas stations fell for four weeks in a row and diesel for five weeks in a row, while SK Energy’s supply price of petroleum products to oil refineries was high, while GS Caltex’s was low.

Korea National Oil Corporation (President Kim Dong-seop) reported that the average selling price of gasoline at gas stations in the fourth week of May was 1,609.5 won per liter, down 17.8 won from the previous week, and diesel was 1,439.0 won, down 29.7 won from the previous week, through the weekly price trend of domestic petroleum products on Opinet, an oil price information system. , indoor kerosene showed 14.0 won and 1,365.1 won.

By brand, thrifty gas stations were low, but GS Caltex brand gas stations were high.

The average selling price of gasoline at thrifty gas stations was low at 1,579.8 won per liter, but at 1,619.2 won at GS Caltex brand gas stations, a difference of 39.4 won.

The average selling price of diesel at thrifty gas stations was low at 1,406.7 won per liter, but at GS Caltex branded gas stations it was high at 1,451.9 won, showing a difference of 45.2 won.

At SK Energy brand gas stations, gasoline was 1,614.9 won, down 17.8 won, and diesel was 1,447.1 won, down 29.2 won. At HD Hyundai Oilbank brand gas stations, gasoline was 1,610.9 won, down 17.3 won, and diesel was 1,440.9 won, down 28.2 won.

At S-OIL brand gas stations, gasoline was 1,610.0 won, down 17.5 won, and diesel was 1,433.2 won, down 29.7 won.

Gasoline sales prices by region were 1,683.2 won per liter, down 14.1 won from the previous week, and 73.6 won higher than the national average.

Jeju-do was followed by 1,627 won per liter, the second highest in the country after Seoul. and Gyeongnam 1,599 won, Busan 1,597 won, Gwangju 1,593 won, Daejeon 1,589 won, Incheon 1,587 won, Ulsan 1,584 won.

Gasoline selling prices in Daegu, the lowest-priced region, were 1,565.9 won per liter, down 17.3 won from the previous week, 43.6 won lower than the national average.

In the third week of May, which is one week later than the selling price at gas stations, the price of petroleum products supplied by refineries recorded KRW 1,497.5 for gasoline, down 7.7 won from the previous week, KRW 1,305.3 for diesel, down KRW 0.9 from the previous week, and KRW 991.0 for indoor kerosene, down 16.7 won from the previous week.

As for supply prices by refinery, SK Energy (CEO Cho Kyung-mok), the highest priced oil refiner, recorded KRW 1,513.0 per liter for gasoline, up 1.8 won from the previous week, and KRW 1,316.1 for diesel, up 4.9 won per liter.

Following that, HD Hyundai Oilbank (CEO Young-min Joo) lowered gasoline by 3.6 won to 1,498.1 won, and diesel by 4.0 won to 1,304.1 won. It showed 1,299.5 won, down 24.5 won.

GS Caltex (CEO Heo Se-hong), the lowest priced oil company, recorded 1,471.7 won per liter for gasoline, down 10.1 won from the previous week, and 1,297.1 won for diesel, up 13.1 won from the previous week.

Meanwhile, international oil prices rose in the 4th week of May due to some progress in the US debt ceiling negotiations, the EIA’s announcement of a sharp drop in commercial crude oil inventories, the Saudi energy minister’s warning against short sellers, and Iraq’s continued decline in production in the Kurdistan region. .

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