Alfa Romeo Models in 1990s (Racing cars)

1992    155 GTA
1993    155 V6 TI

The 155 was very successful in touring car racing, using the Supertouring-homologated GTA and the V6 TI for the DTM. Between 1992 and 1994, the 155 managed to take the Italian Superturismo Championship, the German DTM championship (both with Nicola Larini at the wheel), the Spanish Touring Car Championship (with Adrián Campos), and the British Touring Car Championship (with Gabriele Tarquini).

The 155 remained competitive until it was replaced with the 156, finishing third in the DTM (then known as the International Touring Car Championship, or ITC) in 1996 with Alessandro Nannini and winning the Spanish championship again in 1997 with Fabrizio Giovanardi. In 1993, Larini in an Alfa 155 placed second in the FIA Touring Car Challenge behind Paul Radisich in a Ford Mondeo. The 156 was to continue the high standard set by the 155, winning the European Touring Car Championship multiple times.

1998    156 D2

The 156 competed in various motor racing championships including the World Touring Car Championship, European Touring Car Championship and the British Touring Car Championship. The 156 touring car program was run by Fiat Group's partner N.Technology S.p.A., founded as Nordauto Squadra Corse to compete in Italian Touring Car Championship. In 1994 name was changed to Nordauto Engineering and 2001 to N.Technology.

In 1998 Alfa Romeo offered for sale the 156 Group N version for the track. The 156 Group N had no carpets, seats or upholstery, but included additional track safety devices.

The following titles have been won by 156 drivers:

1998 Italian Super Touring Car Championship - Alfa Romeo 156 D2, Fabrizio Giovanardi

1999 Italian Super Touring Car Championship - Alfa Romeo 156 D2, Fabrizio Giovanardi

2000 European Super Touring Car Cup Winner - Alfa Romeo 156 D2, Fabrizio Giovanardi

2000 South American Super Touring Car Championship, Oscar Larrauri

2001 FIA European Touring Car Championship - Alfa Romeo 156 D2, Fabrizio Giovanardi

2002 FIA European Touring Car Championship - Alfa Romeo 156 GTA Super 2000, Fabrizio Giovanardi

2003 FIA European Touring Car Championship – Alfa Romeo 156 GTA Super 2000, Gabriele Tarquini

1999    GTV Cup

The GTV Cup is a limited edition based on the 3.0 V6 version of the Alfa Romeo GTV, inspired by a one-model Alfa GTV Cup race series. It is a genuinely limited edition of only 419 cars, produced in 2001. There were 180 3.0 V6 24V GTV Cups, out of which 155 RHD versions and 239 cars with 150 PS (110 kW; 148 hp) 2.0 TS were available in LHD only. 3.0 V6 cars were only in red while 2.0 TS cars were mostly silver with few examples in red. Limited edition plaques, that were made of silver, differed for the RHD and LHD versions, having red and black texts accordingly. Differences between standard car and the Cup version are factory standard rear spoiler, front spoiler, side skirts, wheel arch side vents and titanium-like finish 17-inch 'telephone dial' alloys; mechanically it's the same as the regular 218 PS (160 kW; 215 hp) V6. Also the interior is different from standard model with leather-material upholstery. 2.0 TS GTV Cups have 4-pot Brembo callipers as have 3.0 V6 GTVs.

2002    156 GTA Super 2000

2003    156 Super 2000

London-based tuning firm Autodelta made two high performance versions based on 156 GTA, in GTA AM version Alfa Romeo V6 engine was bored to 3,750 cc (3.8 L; 228.8 cu in), which was capable to push 328 PS (241 kW) at 7300 rpm. With this power the car could reach top speed of 310 kilometres per hour (193 mph). The other one GTA AM Super was "upgrade" of the first version, now fitted with Rotrex supercharger and pushing out 400 PS (290 kW).

2003 147 GTA Cup

In Europe, there was a one car racing series, European Alfa 147 Challenge for Alfa 147 Cup race cars starting from 2003. In 2005 this series was driven alongside with World Touring Car Championship, winner of 2005 season was Irish driver Eoin Murray. The car used on the series was Alfa 147 GTA Cup producing 220 bhp (160 kW) from its straight-4 1970 cc Twin Spark engine.

Alfa Romeo 147 2.0 TS (200 bhp) is used by Czech rally driver Martin Rada, finishing second in N3 group (21st in total) on Rally Monte Carlo in 2009  and later finishing first in group 8 on Rally Monte Carlo 2012 (42nd in total) 

The 147 also competed, briefly, in the British Touring Car Championship in 2001 with the JSM team, with a best finish of 3rd at Oulton Park, thanks to driver/team owner Tim Harvey. The car won the 2003 and 2004 Italian Superturismo Championship.