What do you mean crap, Doug? That Alfa is gorgeous (particularly with the Panasports) and looks clean and straight. I'd love to have it as a 3rd or 4th stringer for nice-weather driving.
Slow, unreliable, old trash. Crap.
What do you mean crap, Doug? That Alfa is gorgeous (particularly with the Panasports) and looks clean and straight. I'd love to have it as a 3rd or 4th stringer for nice-weather driving.
Slow, unreliable, old trash. Crap.
Is 'Slow, unreliable, old trash. Crap.' for the Alfa????
Is Alfa old trash? . The old Alfa's had amazing handling!
Alfa Romeo made Ferrari and you call it crap? OK, sorry for the directness of my speech, but you are totally wrong.
but iirc they arent owned by the fiat car company(just incase anyone thinks that)Both Alfa and Ferrari are owned by Fiat, but I'm not sure that Alfa has a hand in Ferrari development.
but iirc they arent owned by the fiat car company(just incase anyone thinks that)
The same applies to essentially all Italian cars, from Ferraris to FIATs.Either way, there's no getting around Alfa's reliability issues. Google "Alfa Romeo reliability." It's rampant.
The same applies to essentially all Italian cars, from Ferraris to FIATs.
Slow, unreliable, old trash. Crap.
Slow, unreliable, old trash. Crap.
Agreed. It's also rampant for old MGs, Triumphs, Fiats, Sunbeams, Datsuns, and anything else sold between 1960 and 1972 that was NOT made in Detroit and NOT powered by a small-block V8.Either way, there's no getting around Alfa's reliability issues. Google "Alfa Romeo reliability." It's rampant.
If you are enslaved to reliability, then there's no reason you would understand owning a car like that one, and therefore no reason to consider owning one. But that still doesn't make them crap.
I think old Bmw's (before e36)
had terribly bad handling and traction, you think exactly the opposite.
Did I mention slow? Old Alfas suck. They were all powered by miniscule engines ("but they handle so well!"), they don't excel at anything except having pompous owners who think their cars are Italian, and therefore special.
The picture says it all.
Doug, you just fulfilled the American Auto fan steretype.Did I mention slow? Old Alfas suck. They were all powered by miniscule engines ("but they handle so well!"), they don't excel at anything except having pompous owners who think their cars are Italian, and therefore special.
Having personally driven an Alfa Spyder exactly like the one in that picture (except in red) on numerous different occasions, I'm here to tell you you're full of crap yourself, Doug. Yet again you are letting your holy paper analysis of automobilia prevent you from seeing something that is not quantified with numbers.Did I mention slow? Old Alfas suck. They were all powered by miniscule engines ("but they handle so well!"), they don't excel at anything except having pompous owners who think their cars are Italian, and therefore special.
The picture says it all.
They were all powered by miniscule engines ("but they handle so well!"),
I'd imagine something like this doesn't enough engine to make up for the fact that it plows more than a Cadilac Deville:Did I mention slow? Old Alfas suck. They were all powered by miniscule engines ("but they handle so well!"),
You make it sound like that only applies to Italian cars. Good show.M5Powerthey don't excel at anything except having pompous owners who think their cars are Italian, and therefore special.
Depends on how 'good' you think a pink caddy is?
DukeMary Kay Pink is more of a yellowish, shell pink rather than 'light flamingo' color. It's distinctinve.
M5PowerI'm not sure. I see pink-shaded Cadillacs on a regular basis in Atlanta (I saw one Saturday - a new DTS) but then again, what's the difference between a pink Cadillac and a Mary Kay Cadillac? I know pink's not a factory color, but what's to stop someone from getting a regular one and painting it?
{about the 2CV}
What?!?! This is crazy! Never?!
DukeI've seen dozens of Midgets, if not hundreds. What I used to see all the time as a kid, but never any more, were Austin Healey Sprites, or the bigger Healey.
I don't believe they made a Alfa Giulia sans roof officially. Although i'm sure many firms will chop one for you.
M5PowerSlow, unreliable, old trash. Crap.
ZukashiriEdit: On the highway if you were driving on it or at the highway if you were next to it.
The car pictured, however, was not that. You posted links to a Giulietta Spider. The car photographed appeared to be based on the later Giulia (look at the tail-lights), which looks nothing like the cars you posted links to.Okay, then what's this:
http://www.classicmotor.co.uk/alfarom.htm
http://www.practicalclassics.co.uk/vehicle/by-id/67/
They seem to claim it was around.
ExigeExcelDoug, you just fulfilled the American Auto fan steretype.
"All Volvo drivers are ugly dykes"
DukeAnd if you want something modern that doesn't need to be puttered with continually, consider the first-gen Miata. It makes no rational sense whatsoever: tiny, not cheap when new, slow, simple, no features to speak of. Unmitigated crap, by your standards (saved only by being relatively reliable crap). Yet it manages to perfectly capture the joy of driving a simple car with an engaging soul.
MatttheTurnerYou just made every damn american on this board look stupid. Thanks alot.
ToronadoI'd imagine something like this doesn't enough engine to make up for the fact that it plows more than a Cadilac Deville:
You make it sound like that only applies to Italian cars. Good show.
And perhaps they want cars to have fun in?
And that, right there, is your problem. You like/buy cars because of what thay're like on paper, on stats and specs. Cars are so much more than that. A car enthusiast buys cars with his heart making most of the decisions. If everyone bought cars with their heads, we'd all be running about in Honda Accords or somesuch."BUYING an Alfa Romeo 20 years ago was a decision dictated by the heart, not the head.
It looks nicer. Its an Alfa.Why else would you buy the '80s Alfa Spider? Seriously - give me one good reason why it's better than a Miata.
No, they want to look like posers. Why else would you buy the '80s Alfa Spider? Seriously - give me one good reason why it's better than a Miata. One reason.
No, they want to look like posers. Why else would you buy the '80s Alfa Spider? Seriously - give me one good reason why it's better than a Miata. One reason. Just one. And "exclusivity" doesn't count because that's exactly my argument.