The Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast

In Episode 127 of the Alfa Romeo Driver, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club, Editor Guy Swarbrick visits Paris for Alfa Romeo’s unveiling of the Cuorerosso concept. Described as a manifesto for future Alfas with driver-centered, non-intrusive technology and a monolithic “living sculpture” design. Swarbrick interviews CEO Santo Ficili, design chief Alejandro Mesonero, product chief Daniele Chiari, and marketing chief Eugenio Franzetti on themes including feasibility, platform sharing, brand differentiation, and customer changes

No Such Thing as a Trentatre Sottomarina. Guy Swarbrick, Kirsty Hodson, John Griffiths and David Faithful share their favourite facts about Alfa Romeo.

From an Alfa Romeo with surprising underwater connections to a concept car with Calibra headlights and a two door ambulance to an unlikely movie star.

In Episode 125 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club, Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with the Alfa Romeo Concierge at Stellantis &You in Leicester – friend of the the podcast Saber Ali - to talk about his role, the challenges of operating a retailer, Alfa’s heritage, customers electrification and the models the marque needs in the future.

Episode 124 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - sees Editor Guy Swarbrick sit down with Club Chairman John Griffiths, Club manager Nick Wright and Club Secretary David Faithful to discuss the UK’s biggest Alfa event by far - National Alfa Day.

In Episode 123 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Guy Swarbrick ventured into the Chilterns above Henley-on-Thames to talk about the Club’s upcoming National Concours – and to provide some general tips on concours competitions. His guests were Club finance Director and Chief Concours judge John Timms, fellow judge Andrew Stevens, overall 2026 concours winner the stunning, white 1967 Duetto – and the Duetto’s owner Gary Plumb.

The ACF50 Aluminium detailer discussed on the podcast is available direct from the manufacturer.

The Duetto on Goodwood TV (at Brooklands...) -

Gary's Duetto's AROOC Guardian page

In Episode 122 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Guy Swarbrick talks to GT Registrar Nathan Mahoney and 159 Registrar Debbi Lindsey about their new lives as social media stars. How did it all come about? What have they done so far? What have they learned? What are their plans for the future?

If you have ideas for future content, you can contact them by email - Nathan Mahoney - GT Registrar - and Debbie Lindsey - 159 Registrar.

And you can find all Debbie and Nathan's videos at AROC TV.

In Episode 121 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with Club Manager Nick Wright and Club Secretary David Faithful to talk about the packed programme of events in store of Alfisti in the UK this year - and the new Alfa Romeo Driver Academy, recently launched in Italy.

In Episode 120 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick is at Goodwood – during a fairly noisy test session - to meet legendary Alfa racer Chris Snowdon and his business partner Richard Melvin of CSR to talk about their long association with the Alfetta GTV and the ex-Jon Dooley Napolina GTV6 that they’ll be racing at the Goodwood Members Meeting later this month.

In our fifth annual International Women's Day episode, Alfa Female's Kirsty Hodson sits down with Alfa Romeo and Italian Intermarque Championship racer Stacey Dennis to talk about her life in racing and discuss ideas about how to get more women involved in the Alfa racing scene.

In Episode 118 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with Club Chairman - and friend of the podcast - John Griffiths to talk about how he got the bug, the Alfas he's owned (and the ones he wishes he had) and how his involvement with the Club has evolved.

As usual, we're taking short break over Christmas and the New Year but we're not going to leave you without a podcast to listen to! Episode 117 dips back into the archive and extracts the 'Alfas we've owned' sections from four of our early 'Meet the Board' episodes.

Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick begins with Club Manager Nick Wright, then Motorsport Director Richard Murtha, Finance Director John Timms and, finally, Section Supremo Jonathan Griffin. Recorded during the pandemic between May 2020 and January 2021, as well as being a fascinating insight into the variety of cars the board has owned - they also act as a time capsule from a very different time, when podcasts were born!

No Such Thing as the Slough-Dover-Coventry Triangle. Guy Swarbrick, Kirsty Hodson, John Griffiths, Nick Wright and David Faithful share their favourite facts about Alfa Romeo - in the UK (mostly!).

A surprising number of Alfa Romeo importers have come and gone within a triangle bounded by former offices and Slough, Dover and the current HQ in Coventry. What's going on?

The Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - live from the NEC - with Editor Guy Swarbrick, Club Chairman John Griffiths and Club Manager Nick Wright. Thanks to Tony and the team from the Car Chum podcast - you can listen to this episode and others recorded during the event at carradio.co.uk or on the Car Radio channel on TuneIn and other internet radio apps.

In this bumper episode of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick and guests focus on the upcoming Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at the NEC – and provide impressions of the new 2026 Alfa Romeo Tonale. With Club Chairman John Griffiths, Club Manager Nick Wright and Alfa Female’s Kirsty Hodson.

In Episode 113 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down in a kitchen above a bicycle shop in Ipswich, to explore the story of the Giulia cycling team car which was such a hit at Club events this year - and talk about Steve's plans for next year.

You can find out more about the car in the December issue of Alfa Romeo Driver - or on Instagram - @alfabetti66

Hello and welcome to episode 112 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club. With Editor Guy Swarebrick this month are one of the Club’s newest Section Secretaries Andrew Whitehead – know to his friends as TED – and friend of the podcast, MiTo Registrar and AROC Racing Leagues commentator Reeve Taylor to talk about the eSports Section’s latest activities, including its new racing programme which started this week.

AROC Racing Leagues races are broadcast on YouTube from 8pm every Wednesday. You can find all the races on the AROC YouTube Channel – and Round 1 of our new 1750 Championship is here

The lowest price we could find for the Ultimate Edition of Assetto Corsa is £9.53 at Instant Gaming – which is an absolute steal! We did exaggerate slightly in the podcast when we said it was 13 years old. It’s only 11 years since the official release, although preview versions were around earlier…

And here’s a video showing what’s involved in setting your PC up to race with us - thanks to Section member - and friend of the podcast - Jack Hodson. You can find more at our official websiteand the Touring Car and Historic Racing websites - and the email address we couldn't remember on the podcast is this simple!

If you don’t have a PC, Assetto Corsa is available for Xbox – although most of the additional content is not and, unfortunately, Xbox and PC multiplayer racing don’t mix.

And, finally, thanks to Greig Young for the image on the label - taken from the opening round and feature TED and Matt Daly.

Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with AROC Manager Nick Wright and Management Team member David Faithful to discuss National Alfa Day - which will be held at Bicester Motion on the 17th of August. Find out what's in store at the biggest and best Alfa Romeo event of the year!

In Episode 110 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club we have something slightly different – or, rather, we have two slightly different things.

Lance Dong of the San Diego Chapter of the Alfa Romeo Owners Club of the USA - a regular listener to the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast started his own podcast - Always Looking for Another.

Lance interviewed Guy Swarbrick for his show – and then Guy turned the tables and interviewed him back. You can find Episode 13 of Always Looking for Another through this link, on Spotify, Podcast Addict, Buzzsprout and everywhere else good podcasts are found…

You don’t have to listen to that episode first – but if you have time, we’d recommend you do. We refer to it a couple of times here - but this should all make perfect sense even if you listen to this one first. We’d recommend downloading the other 12 episodes, too.

In Episode 109 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club. Editor Guy Swarbrick talks to 75 Registrar Nick Suiter, 159 Registrar Debbie Lindsey and Giulia Registrar Andrew Celi to talk about their models’ 40th, 20th and 10th anniversaries respectively.

In this month's episode of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club, Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with his very first guest - Management Team member David Faithful to choose their favourite ten episodes from the last five years.