Alfa Romeo · 2004–2011
Alfa Romeo 159
The Alfa Romeo 159 (Type 939) is a car built by Italian marque Alfa Romeo between 2004 and 2011. It is a large family car in the compact-executive market segment with four-door saloon and five-door estate variants. Introduced at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show as a replacement for the 156, the 159 used the GM/Fiat Premium platform, shared with the Alfa Romeo Brera and Spider as well as the Kamal and Visconti concept cars. The 159 placed third in the 2006 European Car of the Year awards. Production of the 159 ended in November 2011, with 247,661 cars manufactured. The 159's late transition to what was fundamentally made as an E segment platform resulted in the 159 having excessive weight, a problem shared by the Brera coupé and Spider.
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UK fuel mix: —. Records from the VCA fuel & emissions archive.
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UK vehicles on the road
2,238 licensed and 1,680 SORN (3,918 total) at 2025 Q4.
| Year (latest quarter) | Vehicles |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 9,208 |
| 2015 | 9,008 |
| 2016 | 8,762 |
| 2017 | 8,351 |
| 2018 | 7,864 |
| 2019 | 7,356 |
| 2020 | 6,848 |
| 2021 | 6,211 |
| 2022 | 5,632 |
| 2023 | 4,997 |
| 2024 | 4,414 |
| 2025 | 3,918 |
DfT/DVLA VEH0120 vehicle licensing statistics, source ↗, Open Government Licence v3.0. Small counts are rounded or suppressed at source.
Sources
- Wikidata / Wikipedia profiles — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/cars/Q1610CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_159CC BY-SA 4.0 · Intro text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1373438925 · retrieved 2026-10-03
- UK Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) fuel & emissions data — https://carfueldata.vehicle-certification-agency.gov.uk/Open Government Licence v3.0
- DfT/DVLA VEH0120 licensing statistics — https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-tablesOpen Government Licence v3.0
- Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.