RE: Alfa Romeo Mito Quadrifoglio Verde SBK unveiled
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squareflops said:
ill see your Alfa Romeo Mito Quadrifoglio Verde SBK and raise you the daihatsu cuore avanzato tr-xx r4
My last car was a Subaru Impreza WRX STI Type UK 330S. Do I win the internet's most redundant letters in a car name game?!And that Alfa looks hideous. Sorry. Buy an ex demo Giulietta QV instead.
Edited by Ali_T on Friday 1st February 14:49
Four years ago i bought a red Alfa 145 Cloverleaf for £300, OK so I'm in the trade, they got it wrong and it was worth £1500 retail all day long, even had some nice virtually new OZ alloys. It's the red T Reg on on Google images, I can't load a pic here. It drove beautifully and had the lovely forty Alfa exhaust note etc. That's the way to get the "Everyone should own at least one Alfa" thing out of your system.
Alfa159Ti said:
lewisf182 said:
I can't believe how short sighted alfa have been TBH. The 159 was a gorgeous looking car and seemed to sell in decent numbers, so why just let it die instead of bringing out a new version as soon as production of the old one finishes, like every other manufacturer does?!? They did the same with Brera and GT. It just makes no sense at all to kill models off instead of updating and replacing, and now they have a situation where they only sell two cars, which just does not cut it in this day and age when BMW, audi and Merc are filling nice after niche.
Trouble was, nice as the 159 and Brera were, they hardly got the motoring press very excited and they sold in very few numbers. How often do you see one on the roads?From what I can discern from Marchionne's press releases, they either have to make a Giulia that is a genuine competitor within the segment and that people will actually buy in numbers (a la the old 156), or else Alfa's very future will be in doubt.
Hence them wanting to spend time getting it just so. ITs got a lot of hype to live up to now though...
Much as I would like to be driving something a bit different as an everyday vehicle, there is nothing in the very limited Alfa range to excite me, they did not manage to capitalise on the great success of the 156, which in its original guise was a very attractive car, not improved by its later 'nose job'. As for the Mito, every time I see one, those headlamps remind me of the eyes on Noddy's car.... sorry!
Bargenosenti said:
How much room between tyre and wheel arch?? Looks quite nice, although only 20 odd in the UK suggests not so confident on it's ability vs. RenaultSport?
I'm wondering if they've raised the ride height for the stunt. They don't normally look like that. Here's a QV in the classifieds. Much much nicer without the stickers.http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/a...
The Alfasud, 156 and 164 are the only Alfas from the last 40 years that you could buy without making excuses to yourself. Rust on the Sud and awful dealer experiences with the 156 means even those two are tainted. Frankly, it's a miracle the company still exists, because it's been churning out mediocre cars for four decades, cars that people, including me, bought for various reasons, but with logic never being one of them.
mash said:
iSore said:
My God that's nasty!
Such a long, long way from the elegant little Alfasud Ti.
Well said. Loved mine, all 4 of them, rust and all. What the Mr Kipling's French Fancy is happening to Alfa? Such a long, long way from the elegant little Alfasud Ti.
usualdog said:
The Alfasud, 156 and 164 are the only Alfas from the last 40 years that you could buy without making excuses to yourself.
Slightly harsh! The GTV and GTV6, 75 Twin Spark and 3.0 V6 were also worthy choices becasuse they were great to drive and were brimming with the old Alfa character. Sadly, the real crap they made in the eighties and nineties outweighed those.Fiat were the death knell for Alfa really. They had already ruined Lancia and set about Alfa with vigour. The shame was that when they took over in 1985/6, they had a platform to build on with which to turn Alfa around. They should now be a selling a million cars a year from a big worldwide dealer network. A bit like BMW do now, in other words.
I think the Arese factory is still there, but maybe it's already been demolished. That was pretty much the heart of the whole Alfa operation from whence they did all that nutcase stuff like the Tipo 33 racer and the Montreal.
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