This year, that would have meant the Alfa MiTo Black. Oh, wait. Alfa already did the ‘MiTo Black’ last year with the Alfa MiTo Turismo Sport.
This time we get a choice of patriotic colours – Red, White or Blue – or, to be more specific, Alfa Red, Biancospino White or Tornado Blue. Fair tugs at your heartstrings, that Union Jack-inspired colour palette. Or reminds you of the Italian job.
The usual premise applies with the ‘Limited Edition’ Alfa Romeo MiTo – extra kit for less than the options-list price. So you get £1,500 of extras which include Cruise, Blue&Me with Voice, leather wheel and gear knob and multi-function wheel.
Toys for the outside of the MiTo Sprint include a set of 16″ alloys, set of fogs and a rear spoiler plus the required ‘Sprint’ badges splatted around the place.
There’s a choice of oily bits, with either the 1.4 16V 95 at £13,295 or the .4 TB MultiAir 135 bhp with ALFA TCT auto ‘box at £16,395 if you want petrol, or the 1.3 JTDM-2 95 bhp at £14,845 if you want an oil-burner.
All of which seems a perfectly decent deal for a cracking little supermini. With the usual caveat that the toys float your boat.
It looks like Alfa are trying to put buyers off haggling a deal on the MiTo Sprint by offering some decent finance deals, which as the APR is very sensible we’ve published below.