Don't see many Alfa Romeo's about these days.
Don't see many Alfa Romeo's about these days.
Alfa are making some terrific cars at the moment, f. I have my glw driving a Giulietta Quadrifoglio; it's a charming little thing.
The Giulia Quadrifoglio is undoubtedly rapid and apparently highly chuckable, but Alfa appear to be touting it as some sort of M4 beater. If you're looking for BMW build quality and up to the moment technology, the Alfa will disappoint you, but it has a charm and charisma all of its own.
I wouldn't own one out of warranty, of course.
I am just thinking for the future. My wife seems to agree to any Italian car purchase. Especially as her dad owned about every single model of Fiat Lancia and Alfa.
I will keep my 500L for a good while yet. I have one complaint about it though. I can't see the speedometer properly as the steering wheel gets in the way.
It doesn't get much use I only use it on the weekends.
The Grand Tour covered the Giulia Quadrifoglio in one of the episodes towards the end of the season. Take a look at it on Amazon Prime or you should be able to find it somewhere on the internet. I think the general consensus of Clarkson was in line with Sir C that it is a cracking car but it will have something that will annoy you or let you down on it at some point. It is an Alfa afterall.
I've never fully committed to an interest in cars. I enjoy the odd moment whilst driving.
Like flying off when the lights turned green on the Cambridge road so I could get in the right lane to get exit to the shops :-(
It was tremendous. I was well past the junction and all the other suckers still at the lights :cloud9:
There's this odd generational thing about driving. For my generation, the day you turned 17 the day your freedom and independence arrived. There is all sorts of romantic guff to spew about a man and his relationship with his car and with the open road, but, more prosaically, what I don't understand about subsequent generations is, what do you do about women? I mean, when you asked a girl out, did you collect her on the bus? :hehe:
It was probably for the best that I failed that test.
I had already been to the VW dealership. and would have probably got myself locked into some silly finance deal. I was probably on £5 an hour in those days. and when you add the cost of the crazy insurance it wasn't worth it. I am sure out of London the youngsters drive a lot more. Plus living in angel on a busy street I had no where to park and I had no where really to go in this car as I worked around the corner.
I loved lego. I had the city stuff like the police station, hospital, fire station.
my parents would get annoyed as on the back of the lego box it would show different ideas for what you could do with the set. I'd get ideas and try to recreate them only for it never to work :hehe:
They never gave you the instructions for those other layouts.
I think this anti bus lark is a modern phenom.
Where on earth would we want to go? We could walk into the city centre and, if we wanted to go further afield, there was the railway. To be honest, money (or the lack thereof) was a far more limiting factor in terms of travelling than the lack of a car.
As to the childishness thing, meh. :shrug: If you offered me that year again, I'd take your arm off, regardless of whether or not you think I behaved like a child.