WINTER 1992

In the winter of 1992, the Alfa Romeo Styling Centre at Arese, directed by Walter De Silva, commissioned Stola s.p.a. to build the style model for the exterior of the new Alfa Romeo 166.
Class B and C styling surfaces were created at the Arese styling center following the precise indications of Wolfgang Egger.
The Stola resident team was made up of the surfacers Carlo Mantovani, Adriano Rossi and Gianfranco Cappa with the support of Giancarlo Besana for the technical pre-feasibility studies.

Turin 1992 La STOLA s.p.a. realizes the style model of the exterior of the Alfa Romeo 166 on the recommendation of the director of the Alfa Romeo Style Center Walter De Silva. Subsequently in 1994 the surfaces of class A will be made and the milling of the Master's mathematical verification.

n Via La Thuile 71, Turin, the style model was milled, then modified manualy immediately afterwards following the changes requested by the designers Egger, Rosti, Favilla and Giavazzi.
Among the Stola modellers, Stefano Ardagna was noted for having personally resolved demanding requests from Walter Da Silva for the refinement of very difficult lines.
Due to Fiat Auto group’s internal issues, this project experienced several interruptions and restarts, to the point that the style model chosen in1994 did not go into production until three and a half years later.
In 1994, Stola was commissioned to carry out the class A mathematics,mill the mathematical verification master, design the body and external and internal finishes and, last but not least, a modification of the original platform of the Lancia Kappa.
The work was mainly carried out in the offices of Stola in Cinisello Balsamo and to a lesser part in Rivoli. The Stola engineers would liaise with great effectiveness with the hundreds of Alfa Romeo technicians from Arese.

Alfa Romeo Tipo 936 internal and external clearance / tolerance diagram.

The complete synoptic picture of the Alfa Romeo 166 project created by Stola s.p.a. for Fiat Auto signed by Autec.

A detail of the synoptic table.Project table, Autec in evidence.

The details of the synoptic table of the Alfa Romeo 166 project.The details of the synoptic table of the Alfa Romeo 166 project.

Class A class mathematics and master milling were performed in the Rivoli headquarters by the usual Team of Massimo Stola, Carlo Mantovani and Vittorio Della Rocca.
Design activities were under the technical direction of Gottardo Bustreo assisted for contracts and purchases by Carlo Biassoni, who assigned Piero De Micheli as Project Manager.
Roberto Arpini, Marco Destefano, Roberto Bianchi, Marco Brizzolara, Giuseppe Di Nunno, Marco Criveller and Paolo Zerbini were all part of the team.
The Stola team worked with that of Alfa Romeo for three years. Their project manager was Ezio Villa assisted by colleagues Giuseppe Longoni, Pietro Tagliaferro, Luigi Verga, Roberto Guandalini, Domenico De Felice and Masera.
The whole project was developed using Computervision, although the preliminary technical feasibility phase began on a classic drafting board.