The Alfa Romeo 4C lease thread
Discussion
deggles said:
DeejRC said:
???
All weather, Natural, Dynamic, Race - all drive the bloody same in normal driving on normal roads. You depress the throttle and flick the gears at the same time and the car behaves in the same way.
What on earth are you doing?
Hell, the car drives the bloody same in all 4 modes whether doing 0-30mph on the school run or 70-80 leptons on the motorway.
I sometimes wonder if I drive a different car to everybody else when they talk about it on the various forums.
I think you must! All weather, Natural, Dynamic, Race - all drive the bloody same in normal driving on normal roads. You depress the throttle and flick the gears at the same time and the car behaves in the same way.
What on earth are you doing?
Hell, the car drives the bloody same in all 4 modes whether doing 0-30mph on the school run or 70-80 leptons on the motorway.
I sometimes wonder if I drive a different car to everybody else when they talk about it on the various forums.
Have you not noticed the absence of boost in the first few gears in All Weather mode? Or the reduced traction control in Dynamic? As for Race mode, I tried it on a very wet circuit once for a laugh - I don't recommend it unless you're a driving god 
king idiot depresses the throttle hard enough in 1st,2nd or 3rd on the Queen's highway if in All Weather mode because the weather is stty??? If its pissing it down and you are on a normal 30mph limit road you depress the throttle lightly!! That doesn't matter if you are in any mode!! The same holds true on the motorway at 70-80leptons. You dont drive like you need to mash the throttle, you only need to increase speed by 5leptons usually, so you just nudge the cruise up 3 notches or press the throttle the slightly harder for about 2-3 seconds and job done.The only time I've activated the traction control at all was in the snow last week when in deepest darkest Oxfordshire. Im fortunate enough to basically have a special stage tarmac road as my de facto driveway in deepest darkest wettest muddiest Devon and Ive never noticed any difference in the traction control whether I've nailed it down there in natural, dynamic or race.
But then Im from the TVR and Lancia worlds where traction control means using your right foot correctly.
arow said:
Picking mine up next Friday hopefully. Thames Slough has had a delivery of 4 or 5 today think he said so should be a few of us getting them next week!?
Mine is in the same batch 
What are you doing about number plates? Having them fit the standard one or looking for something smaller?
marathonic said:
Mine is in the same batch
What are you doing about number plates? Having them fit the standard one or looking for something smaller?
Exciting! I’m not sure about that, did you ask them about it? Would you just ask them to supply without a front plate and sort it out yourself afterwards?What are you doing about number plates? Having them fit the standard one or looking for something smaller?
Get the small plate. That’s what I did with mine and the only issue I had was whilst I was parked up at a football match. Nipped back to the car to get something and some officers who were walking past decided to have a polite chap about the plate.
I never bothered changing it, was never pulled up over it and it looks considerably nicer than the full size plate.
I never bothered changing it, was never pulled up over it and it looks considerably nicer than the full size plate.
limpsfield said:
Yipper said:
What are the rough wait-times on these at the moment, from order to delivery?
There a guy on here called Yipper. He normally has the answer to this sort of thing. Going off all of our orders, Alfa themselves know the wait time on these so I doubt anyone else would!
If it gives you any indication (and I don't think it does) I ordered in June for delivery December, which was put back to May 2018, to then get a new build date of early January, for it then to be available for collection next week (3-4 weeks early!)
If it gives you any indication (and I don't think it does) I ordered in June for delivery December, which was put back to May 2018, to then get a new build date of early January, for it then to be available for collection next week (3-4 weeks early!)
arow said:
Going off all of our orders, Alfa themselves know the wait time on these so I doubt anyone else would!
If it gives you any indication (and I don't think it does) I ordered in June for delivery December, which was put back to May 2018, to then get a new build date of early January, for it then to be available for collection next week (3-4 weeks early!)
Thanks, man.If it gives you any indication (and I don't think it does) I ordered in June for delivery December, which was put back to May 2018, to then get a new build date of early January, for it then to be available for collection next week (3-4 weeks early!)
Any other folks ordered one recently?
Re front plates the std one is hideous and is fixed via a bracket that’s screwed into the bumper so I would avoid that , a smaller 350 x 75 plate looks about right stuck to the bumper with tape and I run that when in Europe . In the uk I have no front plate generally , including the last car I’ve run the 4c’s for 4 years ( 26000 miles ) and only one stop , the chap loved the car and agreed it didn’t lend itself to a plate but I really ought to fit one “ somehow “ still haven’t
If you are being quoted 9 months, presume you are getting the revised 2019 car?
Talk of many of the foibles of the current car being sorted and a new engine?
http://www.motortrend.com/news/updated-alfa-romeo-...
Could be epic if they get this right.
Talk of many of the foibles of the current car being sorted and a new engine?
http://www.motortrend.com/news/updated-alfa-romeo-...
Could be epic if they get this right.
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