RE: Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio: Driven

[Gameface]

How does someone make a career of such verbal diarrhea? Baffling!

[Evoman]

Trophy-GTA said:

Wow! Still I'd prefer the 156 GTA SW in black.

Agreed



just can't get enough of that wonderful Busso engine. I'll find a picture showing off the whole car

[anonymous-user]

easytiger123 said:

I can only echo the other comments with regards to the writing. Shockingly poor article and virtually unreadable.

Shame really as the car looks great and goes like stink and I'd like to have actually read about it.

It reads like one of those hilariously wky Mercedes press releases that are so awful you couldn't actually parody them if you tried. The non forum material on PH is absolute rubbish these days; either regurgitated press releases or drivel like this.

[ZX10R NIN]

I really like the look of this & the Maserati offering.

[MG Mark]

A great looking car, which deserves to sell well, but what a shame about the article.

Tagged as "Driven", it seems that the writer has not.

What turgid, pretentious, long-winded cack.

[suffolk009]

Nice looking Alfa, best looking SUV right now.

Not at all sure about the Word Minestrone writing.

[thegreenhell]

I wasn't sure about the looks of this, but then you just have to look at that new Lambo SUV thing and back at this for the Stelvio instantly to become the best looking car of its type.

[Gameface]

MG Mark said:

Tagged as "Driven", it seems that the writer has not.

That was my impression too. The photos just look like press shots to me.

Does PH lie and write so badly all the time?

[Ares]

Cake and eat it

[Ares]

givablondabone said:

Looks good at around 100k less than the Urus I must say.

This sums it up perfectly.

I love the look/proposition of the Urus, but you could have this AND a 991 GT3 or Exige 430 for the same money.

[theplayingmantis]

Gameface said:

How does someone make a career of such verbal diarrhea? Baffling!

terribly written, so hard to read. Still he does look like a fatter, more squashed james corden, so maybe that explains it?

[unpc]

oldtimer2 said:

If it is closed then surely there are more challenging roads, that are open, to test the car than the boulevards of the UAE.

That's not how these launch junkets work though. They usually have to centre around some 5 star hotel where the press can be wined and dined and offered bucket loads of freebies. The nearby roads are incidental.

I happened upon the the recent Porsche Cayenne launch while staying in Crete last month and these poor journos don't half slum it

[cookington]

I class myself as a fairly intelligent person but I was unable to read the article.

[MellowshipSlinky]

Did someone knock over a tin of Alfabetti Spaghetti?

Lovely car, though.

[Jimmy Recard]

I didn’t mind the writing. A few too many adjectives, perhaps

[HorneyMX5]

And to think everyone gave Dan a hard time about some his writing! I didn't find it hard to read, but agree with a couple of other posters that it's not a very PH style. I'm sure he'll settle in though.

Anyhoo, another great Alfa. They're truly on a roll at the moment. They need to tick off the best Hot Hatch next.

[Oakman]

silentbrown said:

deggles said:

Indeed, the whole article had a distinct whiff of Troy Queef about it!

"The saloon's preternatural rolling refinement has been mitigated by a broader requirement for model-specific tautness; meaning that even in its default 'Natural' mode on the UAE's smooth roads, the SUV is less inclined to settle so amicably on its 20-inch alloys."

It's the infamous "Nic Cackett".

https://driventowrite.com/2016/06/02/when-words-co...

I have a horrible feeling we're going to see more of this. http://www.vuelio.com/uk/blog/uk-4-october-2017/

"Nic Cackett has been appointed editor at PistonHeads.com. Nic was previously deputy reviews editor at What Car? and Autocar.

Poor chap, he's obviously swallowed a Thesaurus whole - just regurgitates it randomly in incoherent chunks.

Can we get Brian Sewell in as Editor.......?

[Gameface]

If he can't even spell his own christian name correctly, he shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard.

[nickfrog]

cookington said:

I class myself as a fairly intelligent person but I was unable to read the article.

Maybe some car journos are pissed off for not having made it to proper journalism and abandon all succinctness in an attempt to impress people with their rare/fancy words (like succinctness).

[GranCab]

His first couple of reviews were written in the same "Barbara Cartland" style and a bking from me and others seemed to temper this style somewhat.

However the flowery twaddle is back and makes this article unreadable.

I'm sure he'd be better placed writing Mills and Boon novels.