Alfa Romeo 960A (1.75 TBi)
1.7 L · inline-4 · turbocharged · petrol · 2013–present
Also known as: 960a1000, 960a, 1750 tbi, 1.75 tbi, 4c engine
Alfa Romeo's 1.75 turbocharged four — the 960A — in the 4C and the Giulietta Quadrifoglio Verde.
The displacement is deliberate. 1750 was Alfa's own designation in the 1960s and the modern engine was sized to reclaim it — a marketing decision that produced an unusual capacity, and one worth knowing when a parts search returns nothing for 1.8.
In the 4C it is an all-aluminium engine mounted amidships behind the cabin, which changes every access assumption: heat soak is real, and routine work is harder than on the Giulietta's transverse installation.
Its known items are the ordinary direct-injection turbo set — intake-valve carbon at mileage, and a turbocharger whose life tracks oil condition — with the mid-engined car's heat making the second matter more.
It is a low-volume engine and specialist experience is correspondingly thin outside the dealer network.
Cars fitted with this engine
1 generation, across 1 make. From the authored catalogue — an absent car means the catalogue has not reached it, not that the engine was never fitted.
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