The Independent have published their review of the Alfa Mito 1.4 T-jet 155 compact. 'The Mito's name is a conjunction of the Italian abbreviations of Milan and Turin. In the first publicity material it was rendered as Mi.To, but that looks awful in print. This logo-isation of running prose is now officially watered down to MiTo, but that is still horrible. So, in the interests of aesthetics, we'll go with Mito. After all, Alfa itself was originally written A.L.F.A.
As for the point of the placenames, the Mito was engineered in Turin and is built there, as you would expect from a Fiat Auto creation, but Milan is Alfa Romeo's ancestral home and its styling centre will return there soon. The Mito's guts are derived from those of the Fiat Grande Punto. The Vauxhall Corsa shares some of these underbody genes, too, a legacy of Fiat's and General Motors' past resource-sharing.'
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