Brake-neck - that is seriously stunning...but I like boxy angular cars...
Old Alfas were superb. Unreliable but SO fun.
You must be a fair bit older than me, I never got to drive them as contemporary vehicles 🙁
SO fun
Are you American? or just a bit camp?
[i]a bright red 309 GTi [/i]
+1
I had a pre-facelift black one, with the full electric pack and the huge slidy roof. Quick, but if you wanted to, could be driven around in 5th at 30mph - wonderful 8v injected motor.
And on Alfa's, a friend recently bought a Brera. I've driven it and what it really needs is an auto box (its the 3.2), and then it would be a perfect Grand Tourer. This replaced a 2.5 156 that went pop, even though he'd religously looked after it - when it went in for a belt service they found that it had crankshaft float, it had only done 90k!
[i]I don't think the question should be has anyone test driven an Alfa but has anyone driven 50k miles in one....[/i]
I had a 96P Alfa 146 with a 1.6 boxer engine that I bought with 12k miles on. New clutch at 100k miles and another new clutch at 133k (cheap pattern clutch, what can you expect?). That engine sounded fantastic, and was pretty quick
If the cheap chain fast fit grease monkey had done a proper job putting the gearbox driveshafts back together after he'd fitted the new clutch, it would have lasted a hell of a lot longer. Oh what the hell. They're in Keighley, opposite B&Q. Don't let them touch anything other than your tyres, and even those I'd take the wheels off yourself & roll them in
next car was a 156 T-Spark with 4k miles on the clock, which I traded in after (a) cambelt failure and (b) head gasket failure (both fixed under warranty BTW) at 76k miles.
would I have another? If the boot on the 159 SW was big enough, yes I would