Alfa Romeo slate the 8C Competizione for production...
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Way to go, GTPlanet... marketing porn by means of alluring European cars. Whoop-de-f:censored:ing-do.
I can see when people talk about how automotive designers seem to run out of ideas or that every other car looks alike. I don't particularly overcriticize on that, so I'll leave things as is. Someone liked it when I associated "Italian Engineering" with Alfa Romeo, so let me do this again by popular demand- Alfa Romeo is pretty much Italian engineering at its best. This 8C Competizione has some Ferrari, a little Panoz, and dare I say... a little Mazda RX-8... in its design. The design is very clean and even alluring. I actually like this design a lot. I usually don't like the usual Alfa Romeo grill too much on Alfa Romeos, but the mix is actually quite nice here. The Alfa Red is very nice on this car, but I'd even take one of these in some sort of indigo color or a deep purple/violet. I love blue as well. So some sort of deep blue color (like on the Maserati MC12) would be nice if wanted my own. I went through all this without talking about horsepower? This angellic vixen has 440hp. She's a bad girl, GTPlanet. She's capable of doing very naughty things on the road and the track. Imagine this car at speed.
Out of 100% approval, I'm giving this a very good number- 90%. Good job, Alfa Romeo. It's probably my favorite Alfa Romeo since the 155. But my favorite one is sort of a new favorite of mine- the Alfa Romeo 33.2 Daytona.
I can see when people talk about how automotive designers seem to run out of ideas or that every other car looks alike. I don't particularly overcriticize on that, so I'll leave things as is. Someone liked it when I associated "Italian Engineering" with Alfa Romeo, so let me do this again by popular demand- Alfa Romeo is pretty much Italian engineering at its best. This 8C Competizione has some Ferrari, a little Panoz, and dare I say... a little Mazda RX-8... in its design. The design is very clean and even alluring. I actually like this design a lot. I usually don't like the usual Alfa Romeo grill too much on Alfa Romeos, but the mix is actually quite nice here. The Alfa Red is very nice on this car, but I'd even take one of these in some sort of indigo color or a deep purple/violet. I love blue as well. So some sort of deep blue color (like on the Maserati MC12) would be nice if wanted my own. I went through all this without talking about horsepower? This angellic vixen has 440hp. She's a bad girl, GTPlanet. She's capable of doing very naughty things on the road and the track. Imagine this car at speed.
Out of 100% approval, I'm giving this a very good number- 90%. Good job, Alfa Romeo. It's probably my favorite Alfa Romeo since the 155. But my favorite one is sort of a new favorite of mine- the Alfa Romeo 33.2 Daytona.
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If it's much over £38,000 I'd be surprised - it'd represent such a colossal leap in the pricing of Alfa Romeos, not seen since Nissan sold a £50,000 Skyline in amongst its £18,000 maximum range, or Honda sold a £76,000 NSX on top of its £4.36 maximum range.
So that'd be something like $45,000-$50,000, given how evil the UK car market is compared to the USA's.
So that'd be something like $45,000-$50,000, given how evil the UK car market is compared to the USA's.
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Famine
If it does come with a variation on the Maserati/Ferrari sourced V8 i can't see it coming out under £60k - a highly tuned Alfa/GM V6 would probably alow it to dip under £40k.
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I really can't fathom how you guys are thinking that Alfa Romeo has ripped its design off companies like Nissan, TVR, Whateverelse. Alfa Romeo has way too much class for that. It's a respect thing. All those companies bow their heads to the progenitors of round tail lights--the Italians. The makers of the finest, classiest, cars in the world. Ferrari, Alfa, and Maserati in particular.
You guys just have the order wrong. It's not "Alfa has Skyline taillights", it's "Skyline has Alfa taillights." The same goes for the Corvette (they really did rip off Italy, as many American companies did Europeans back in the day), the Skyline, TVR, etc. And Subie's airplane/wing grille has nothing to do with Alfa or any other car company for that matter--it's just a symbol showing Subaru's lineage with Fuji Heavy Industries, which has six different branches, an airplane manufacturing company as one of the more important ones. Then there's the cars, the ships, the trains... That's also the reason for the six starred symbol with one being larger than the others. It isn't the stars in the Australian night--it's representing the six Fuji companies, and the big one represents Subaru as being family.
You guys just have the order wrong. It's not "Alfa has Skyline taillights", it's "Skyline has Alfa taillights." The same goes for the Corvette (they really did rip off Italy, as many American companies did Europeans back in the day), the Skyline, TVR, etc. And Subie's airplane/wing grille has nothing to do with Alfa or any other car company for that matter--it's just a symbol showing Subaru's lineage with Fuji Heavy Industries, which has six different branches, an airplane manufacturing company as one of the more important ones. Then there's the cars, the ships, the trains... That's also the reason for the six starred symbol with one being larger than the others. It isn't the stars in the Australian night--it's representing the six Fuji companies, and the big one represents Subaru as being family.
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A loss for sure. 👎
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If Alfa Romeo did bring this to America, I think many American buyers will be pleased to have this car. I haven't seen an Alfa Romeo in America since last year when someone seemingly ported an old Alfa Romeo to America from Mexico (maybe). Alfa Romeo is a great Italian car company. I often wonder what the American response to these cars will be. Will we embrace Alfa Romeo and this 8C Competizione? Or will we think of Alfa Romeos as exciting cars, only not with RWD? Perhaps would many of us say "there's no need for Alfa Romeo to be in America in the first place?" If Alfa Romeo raced here in America, it would likely be the first time I can recall them since they provided Champ Car motors in 1992 or something like that. Now THIS car is sex on wheels. She's a babe, isn't she?
