RE: Alfa Romeo 4C spied testing

[stephen300o]

Strawman said:

underphil said:

Looks pretty good in white if you ask me :

AGreed, but notice in that photo how they've carefully positioned the camera so the black wing mirrors a lost against the tinted windows. Could they be replaced with something spaceage like discrete bulletcams or would that be an MOT fail?

More like retro alloy bullet mirrors.

[Esseesse]

A video.

[TonyHetherington]

Ah, looks nice, really nice, love the flow of it, bum looks good (if a little more stubby than I hoped it would), but really looks like a great.........OH MY GOD WTF ARE THOSE LIGHTS!?!?!?!?

[stephen300o]

Esseesse said:

A video.

People might think this is crazy talk but... Why are those girls standing there?

[Strawman]

stephen300o said:

People might think this is crazy talk but... Why are those girls standing there?

Tradition.

[otolith]

Ah, I see from the video that those light clusters are set into what appears to be carbon fibre. Well, I see why they did it, but it still looks nasty.

I would still have one, though - overall I can forgive the lights, but they really are a mistake.

[Esseesse]

[OlberJ]

Esseesse said:

Here's another...

Front end on that looks fantastic!


Oh and the 4C doesn't look that bad either. Lights are rank though.

[C36 Nico]

Esseesse said:

Hideous steeringwheel! Looks like a Fiat 500 wheel with the bottom sliced off!!

Edited by C36 Nico on Tuesday 5th March 13:55

[stephen300o]

Esseesse said:

Ah, the red seats I ordered earlier!

[otolith]

Lights look better lit, it's the grey look of the surround under the bright lighting that doesn't work for me.

[ZesPak]

With that CF tub, any idea when's the spider coming out as I reckon it'll be an ideal candidate to chop the top off?

[otolith]

Flat bottomed wheel looks nearly as crap as it does when Audi and VW do it.

[Guvernator]

That front end? Really? Why have they done that??

They've turned what I thought was a very nice looking car into a bit of a mess. It looks like the kind of thing someone who lives on a council estate would do if a 4C fell into their hands!

Oh and at 60k Euro's it's too expensive.

[kambites]

I wonder if they had to raise the height of the lights slightly to meet type approval regulation, and that meant they couldn't get them to look right with a cover? Either way it's a bit of a mess - people often fit lights like that to RX7s and they look stupid there too.

[stephen300o]

Guvernator said:

That front end? Really? Why have they done that??

They've turned what I thought was a very nice looking car into a bit of a mess. It looks like the kind of thing someone who lives on a council estate would do if a 4C fell into their hands!

Oh and at 60k Euro's it's too expensive.

What do you think they've done to the front end?

Still looks (mostly)great, and still a bargain at that price.

[Guvernator]

stephen300o said:

Still looks (mostly)great, and still a bargain at that price.

Just not a fan of the slats or the light treatment I'm afraid. It turns the very sharp looking nose of the concept into something that looks like a Korean knockoff IMO.

It's not a bargain for a 4 pot car with 237bhp and it's more expensive then a Cayman S (yes that DOES matter).

[braddo]

The PH article just posted on the front page suggests the ugly (carbon fibre) front lights might be limited to the launch edition. Here's hoping!

[otolith]

I want one of these. I have never wanted a Cayman.

[A3tdi]

Those front lights are awful.

Rest is very very good.