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A shame as this was looking interesting - and all to protect Masser sales!
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I care! Sorry I missed your other post, TT Bit of a confused message, there, from FIAT... Worried it would steal Maz GT sales, but only ever intending a very limited production.
I'd have thought a limited-run "halo" product is exactly what the Alfa brand needs just at the moment. May even have boosted Mazzer sales due to renewed interest... Lovely thing that it is, perhaps its time for a completely new Maserati GT; the current one's been around for a fair while now?Real shame. Alfa really needed a supercar to firmly re-establish themselves as styling leaders. It would have improved the image of the whole range, and if the reliability was right....
They had also been taking deposits for the 8C, and this will further dent Alfa's still shakey image and will continue to diminish brand confidence. Furthermore, the new model yet to be given the green light, and described as the new Sprint, will likely also likely be pulled on account of confilict with a similar Lancia model.
I really can't believe that there is still no dialogue between the various manufacturers under the Fiat Auto umbrella. Surely some feasibility study was done from the outset. Is Luca di Montezemelo inept, or is it a case of Alfa outshining its sister companies yet again, only to be kicked off the ladder.
All in all, I think there are some very well paid people doing a very average job within Fiat Auto.
>> Edited by Alfa Mad on Wednesday 15th December 00:27
They had also been taking deposits for the 8C, and this will further dent Alfa's still shakey image and will continue to diminish brand confidence. Furthermore, the new model yet to be given the green light, and described as the new Sprint, will likely also likely be pulled on account of confilict with a similar Lancia model.
I really can't believe that there is still no dialogue between the various manufacturers under the Fiat Auto umbrella. Surely some feasibility study was done from the outset. Is Luca di Montezemelo inept, or is it a case of Alfa outshining its sister companies yet again, only to be kicked off the ladder.
All in all, I think there are some very well paid people doing a very average job within Fiat Auto.
>> Edited by Alfa Mad on Wednesday 15th December 00:27
And yet the car is still doing the rounds at various motorshows.
See www.italiaspeed.com for details.
It's just completed it's "far east" tour.
If it's really canned, then that's just teasing.
See www.italiaspeed.com for details.
It's just completed it's "far east" tour.
If it's really canned, then that's just teasing.
Well it is typical, isn't it?
The whole car world, BMW in front, is trying to be different and seductive at the same time, while Alfa is churning out the beauties by the bucketload and then refuses to make any money out of them.
I mean : Brera, Scighera, 8C, 156GtaM, 155 GTZ, TZ3, Nivola (Tuscan anyone?), they keep making them, and them burying them.
Makes no sense to me, unless its not maser but the allwholy Ferrari they're trying to protect.
The whole car world, BMW in front, is trying to be different and seductive at the same time, while Alfa is churning out the beauties by the bucketload and then refuses to make any money out of them.
I mean : Brera, Scighera, 8C, 156GtaM, 155 GTZ, TZ3, Nivola (Tuscan anyone?), they keep making them, and them burying them.
Makes no sense to me, unless its not maser but the allwholy Ferrari they're trying to protect.
The new GTV (due sometime this year, I think) will be running the 3.2 V6, 4-wheel drive (better than FWD, if not as good as RWD - IMHO). It's also 'sposed to look rather like the Brera concept of a couple of years ago.
Ferrari have two front-engined V12 cars in their line up, so I don't see why Alfa and Maserati can't have two similar cars too.
Ferrari have two front-engined V12 cars in their line up, so I don't see why Alfa and Maserati can't have two similar cars too.
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