Alfa Romeo Mito 2014 – compact sports hatch update

The Italian company Alfa Romeo presented its junior model for lovers of compact sports cars – the updated Alfa Romeo Mito 2014 model year at the Frankfurt Motor Show in the fall of 2013. Our review with photos and videos carefully get acquainted with the updated exterior and interior, new infotainment systems, full technical descriptions, specifications, contents of the best chips, ensuring comfort and safety. And, of course, the prices of the new 2014 Alfa Romeo Mito hatchback for many car enthusiasts.

Before describing the appearance of the car, we will make a short digression into the life history of the model. The Italian compact hatchback Alfa Romeo Mito debuted on June 19, 2008, in Milan, and within five years of production, more than 200,000 copies were sold worldwide. The main part is sold Alfa Romeo Mito travels on the roads of Europe. Unfortunately, a nice Italian car is very hard to find on the roads these days. In 2010, the temple has undergone a slight update – there is a 6th gear TCT (automatic transmission with two clutch discs) and the blue & me-TomTom system with (Bluetooth and navigation).

Update for Alfa Romeo Mito 2014 touched the exterior, interior and technical component.
Let’s start with the appearance of the machine involved in the review process, and with the advent of Alfa Romeo Mito and custom. Maybe that’s why the Italian designers are only small touches to modernize the look of the compact hatchback, giving the car more of a resemblance to its older sister, the Alfa Romeo Giulietta, which has also gone through an update.

The headlights received a polished edging heraldic shield of the grille, a new chrome outfit stands out. What are all the changes in the exterior of the updated Alfa Romeo Mito 2014. Yes, and one more thing, he added a new enamel color for body painting – anthracite gray (plus ten options for the proposed colors).

The MiTo hatchback, which, in our opinion, is the most stylish, original and beautiful representative of all currently offered European B-class. An interesting shape with soft lines and body contours will not leave indifferent even people who are far from car design. To describe the appearance of the Italian compact is simply impossible, as they say, It is better to see once. So, dear readers, enjoy the appearance of the car itself, good photos and video materials (presented in the review) make it possible to fully taste the elegance, style and originality of Mito.

We also have to point out the dry figures from the external dimensions of the body, and offer to install Alfa Romeo Mito 2014 tires and rims.

• The dimensions of the car body are: 4063 mm long, 1720 mm wide, height 1446 mm, wheelbase 2511 mm, front wheel track 1483 mm, rear wheel track 1476 mm, ground clearance 140 mm.

• The standard Italian hatchback Alfa Romeo Mito 2014 comes with 195/55 R16 tires on steel 16-inch rims, the option allows you to order 16-inch alloy wheels or install tires 205/45 R17, in 215/45 P17 or 215/40 R18 on alloy wheels 17-18 radius.

There is also the option of customizing the sports hatchback with 12 headlight frame options, 14 exterior mirror caps and even ordering a roof color that contrasts with the base color.

The most important innovation in the interior of the updated Mito 2014 is the new generation Uconnect multimedia system with a 5-inch color touch screen (Bluetooth, AUX and USB port, iPod and iPhone). If desired, the multimedia complex can be supplemented with Tomtom navigation. For true music lovers, it is possible to install a Bose acoustic system (8 speakers, 500 W subwoofer, 6-channel digital amplifier) ​​in the Hi-Fi salon. In addition, the manufacturer offers the possibility of various color options for the front panel, you can choose from all black, black and gray combinations or black and red.

The interior of the updated Alfa Romeo Mito 2014, in contrast to the appearance of the hatchback, does not look so extravagant and stylish, everything is quite restrained and guaranteed, the representatives of the manufacturer are directed so that the driver is not distracted from the main thing – the control of the sport is compact. A comfortable steering wheel with tides in the right grip area, informative instruments with bright red backlighting, an ideal profile of the front seats with pronounced lateral support and pillow length (again, being in the arms of these chairs, you will forever understand what a sports car is, albeit a compact one).

For many Alfa Romeo enthusiasts, the 2014 Mito can be purchased in one of two configurations. The initial development is packed seriously: 7 airbags, Start / Stop system, electrodynamic power steering, on-board computer, Alfa Romeo DNA (changing modes of steering, suspension and engine with three modes of dynamic or normal, all-weather), ABS, braking assistant, on hill holder, VDC and ASR, as well as light and rain sensors, central locking, air conditioning, steering wheel height and depth adjustment, audio system (radio CD MP3 6 speakers), front seats with adjustable lumbar support, LED rear lights.
The more advanced configuration automatically added fog lights, a chrome exterior trim package, and paddles for the TST transmission.
It will not be superfluous to inform you that Mito’s cabin is able to accommodate five passengers, including the driver, but … in the front row, to be comfortable for people with a height of 185 cm, but the rear seats are designed for three, it is better to sit together with shorter passengers. Seats in the second row is clearly not enough.
The trunk of a compact hatchback that holds from 270 liters with rear seat passengers to over 1,000 liters with the rear seats folded down.

Specifications: after restyling, under the hood of the updated Alfa Romeo Mito 2014, a new gasoline engine is a 0.9-liter TwinAir turbodiesel generation (105 l, 145 Nm). In tandem with a 6 manual transmission, the engine allows you to reach 100 km / h in 11.4 seconds, the maximum speed is 184 miles / hour. The manufacturer claims that the average fuel consumption is 4.2 liters. Alas, for many users, the Italian hatchback with a power supply is not available, but, like several motors for European motorists:

• diesel pair – 1.3-liter jtdm diesel (85 hp) and 1.6 liter jtdm power (120 hp);
• gasoline 1.4-liter (70 hp and 78 hp);
• liquefied gas, LPG and 1.4 turbo (120 HP);
• gasoline 1.4-liter generation TwinAir Turbo (170 hp).

The most recently facelifted version of the 2014 Alfa Romeo Mito is offered with one petrol engine being the 1.4-liter turbocharged TwinAir generation (135 hp 206 Nm) mated to a TCT 6-speed dual clutch automatic transmission. The motor and the car allow you to achieve dynamics up to 100 km / h in 8.2 seconds, and a maximum speed of 207 km fuel consumption according to the passport varies from 4.5 liters on the highway, 7.3 liters in the city.

The front suspension is independent, on McPherson struts, rear semi-independent beam with torsion bars, shock absorbers with variable stiffness, disc brakes. Such a serious technical set allows you to be naughty behind the wheel of a small Alpha soul. The turbocharged engine revs effortlessly and effortlessly to top speed, the automatic transmission revamps gears quickly and discreetly, and the delicately tuned suspension with electronically controlled dampers makes the wheels stick in the corners to the last, providing fantastic handling. In a word, the Alfa Romeo Mito is a pocket rocket, not lighter, as many people think, but with a caveat … in the engine compartment there should be an engine in the TwinAir Turbo that produces 135 or 170 forces.
The cost of the updated Alfa Romeo Mito 2013-2014 has recently been quite high. The car can be purchased at a price of 930 thousand conventional units for Alfa Romeo Mito progression. More expensive versions of Alfa Romeo Mito are distinctive from 995 thousand conventional units.