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24th June 2015. Alfa Giulia.

stever750
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A new Alfa. It's a bit like being a Welshman at the start of the the 6 Nations.

 

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Secret-new-cars/Search-Results/Spyshots/Alfa-Romeo-Giulia-2015-kickstarts-nine-new-Alfas/

 

RWD, and this:

 

"But to compete in the executive heartland, Alfa must offer multi-cylinder engines too. CAR understands a Maser-twinned petrol V6 will be offered in 2.5 and 3.0 capacities, developing up to 510bhp."

 

 

 

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    A new Alfa. It's a bit like being a Welshman at the start of the the 6 Nations.

     

    http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Secret-new-cars/Search-Results/Spyshots/Alfa-Romeo-Giulia-2015-kickstarts-nine-new-Alfas/

     

    RWD, and this:

     

    "But to compete in the executive heartland, Alfa must offer multi-cylinder engines too. CAR understands a Maser-twinned petrol V6 will be offered in 2.5 and 3.0 capacities, developing up to 510bhp."

    Er, any engine with 2 or more cylinders can be described as "multi-cylinder".

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    Shame we don't know yet what it's going to look like. The standard AE photoshops are nice but don't tell us much. Either way, this car has me more excited than anything has for a while...

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    Dear Alfa, please, please, no really, PLEASE make it handle properly. Please let it have decent steering feel, none of this artificial electric rubbish with its anodyne lab created on centre (lack of) feel. (VAG are you listening? The Cupra 280 is atrocious)

     

    It has to be dynamically great, there is no room for anything else after two decades of poor handling and disappointing Alfas. I can live with quirky, in fact I like quirky, I can even live with dodgy electrics, not that they are anymore, but why let facts spoil an urban myth! (Oh the irony on a Skoda website...); but if it handles like an over-sprung under-damped sack of spuds I will shed tears. 

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    Dear Alfa, please, please, no really, PLEASE make it handle properly. Please let it have decent steering feel, none of this artificial electric rubbish with its anodyne lab created on centre (lack of) feel. (VAG are you listening? The Cupra 280 is atrocious)

    It has to be dynamically great, there is no room for anything else after two decades of poor handling and disappointing Alfas. I can live with quirky, in fact I like quirky, I can even live with dodgy electrics, not that they are anymore, but why let facts spoil an urban myth! (Oh the irony on a Skoda website...); but if it handles like an over-sprung under-damped sack of spuds I will shed tears.

    Good point, but a little extreme. It's more like 5 years than two decades.

    The 156/147/GT platform has one of the best handling FWD chassis this side of an FTO - it's the 159/Brera era and onwards where it all went Pete Tong.

    Decently setup RWD with the gearbox over the back axle is admittedly a distant memory (and let's hope it returns) but more recently that that they're a lot better than anything else around.

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    The 156 GTA wasn't a patch on the alfetta gtv. The last half decent alfa was the gtv 3.0 even that was a bit under steery.

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    That "artist impression" giulia in the OP looks, imo, like a fancied up (rear lights movved onto the side panels), facelifted A5....

    And i too hope it has more than a single cylinder engine ....

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    Not long now! Stuff your Golf 4 million Keith!! :)

     

    I hope this isn't a bag of spanners to drive, I really do. I could almost live without the full italian soundtrack if it meant it went round the bends properly. If it's as good as the leon, I'm in the queue.

     

    http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/spy-shots/alfa-romeo/alfa-romeo-giulia-2015-first-of-nine-new-alfas/

     

    330bhp from a 1.8 is impressive. 

     

    http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-giulia-lead-alfa-romeo-relaunch

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    Not long now! Stuff your Golf 4 million Keith!! :)

     

    I hope this isn't a bag of spanners to drive, I really do. I could almost live without the full italian soundtrack if it meant it went round the bends properly. If it's as good as the leon, I'm in the queue.

     

    http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/spy-shots/alfa-romeo/alfa-romeo-giulia-2015-first-of-nine-new-alfas/

     

    330bhp from a 1.8 is impressive. 

     

    http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-giulia-lead-alfa-romeo-relaunch

    Not good to pre-empt ! Wait and see stever750.

    Not good to pre-empt ! Wait and see stever750.

    Says the man who started the R400 'in anticipation' thread

    :)

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    Not good to pre-empt ! Wait and see stever750.

    I think pre-empting would be to have ordered one "en primeur". I lost my rose tinteds in the sea of Alfa's recent successive waves of disappointment. On paper it looks, and the headline features look promising technically. Like I said, IF it handles as well as my Leon, it's good enough for me. One thing I wouldn't do will be to mess about with the engine ECU. 330 is enough for me.

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    I still think how wonderful a 159 looks every time i see one, and even more so the odd occasion i see a 159 Sportwagon.

     

    Just a lovely design IMO.

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    Looks like an A4 from the rear, well the light cluster does anyway. I want one.

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    Maybe best watched with sound off.

    (3 mins 40 on worth a listen.)

    5 Minutes 20: just beautiful in White IMO.

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    Crikey. You'd think it had more tech than the total ever combined stuffed into all the 'Prezzas and EVO's ever made!

     

    Oh dear. One knob to control everything inside. Did no one drive a 5 series???

    Do you mean the DNA/race. ?

    In the past Dynamic / Normal / All Weather

    (& now Race)

     

    The 3 way switch does the job ok on the Mito & Giulietta TCT IME.

    I like it.

    Quite lovely in white.

    Decent looking car, wonder if they will do a sports tourer variant?

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    So the cloverleaf with the fezza engine has lapped the 'ring in 7:39. Faster than the M4, a murcielago and the MB SLR Mclaren. Yours for around £53k ish. Form an orderly queue summer 2016

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