Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione.
07-31-07, 09:34 AM
#16
EV ftw!!!
Absolutely freakingly gorgeous!!!!! 
07-31-07, 09:51 AM
#17
This is my favorite car... ever. It's just so beautiful, so immaculately designed, so pure yet so complex. Alfa Romeos... I just love them. I would choose this car over all others. This Alfa.. is brilliant.
I can't wait for the Brera and the 159 to come stateside. They will be about 40k... the same Italian beauty on the cheap. I've said this time and time again; Alfas are probably the only car I would trade my Lexus in for.
On the other hand, I do not think this is the US version. Its still got its Euro fog lamp at the rear, and no front 3/4 reflector.
I can't wait for the Brera and the 159 to come stateside. They will be about 40k... the same Italian beauty on the cheap. I've said this time and time again; Alfas are probably the only car I would trade my Lexus in for.
On the other hand, I do not think this is the US version. Its still got its Euro fog lamp at the rear, and no front 3/4 reflector.
08-01-07, 12:29 AM
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This is my favorite car... ever. It's just so beautiful, so immaculately designed, so pure yet so complex. Alfa Romeos... I just love them. I would choose this car over all others. This Alfa.. is brilliant.
I can't wait for the Brera and the 159 to come stateside. They will be about 40k... the same Italian beauty on the cheap. I've said this time and time again; Alfas are probably the only car I would trade my Lexus in for.
On the other hand, I do not think this is the US version. Its still got its Euro fog lamp at the rear, and no front 3/4 reflector.
I can't wait for the Brera and the 159 to come stateside. They will be about 40k... the same Italian beauty on the cheap. I've said this time and time again; Alfas are probably the only car I would trade my Lexus in for.
On the other hand, I do not think this is the US version. Its still got its Euro fog lamp at the rear, and no front 3/4 reflector.
Alfas break. Often.... I LOVE Alfa Romeo design, and they make cars with great character, but I wouldn't trade in a Lexus for one, unless I had a second car to drive while it was in the shop.
However, I'd buy the 8C in a heartbeat..that car is sex personified.....hot, steamy, passionate, wild, sweaty sex....with a supermodel. But the wife stays
08-01-07, 07:37 AM
#24
Out of Warranty
If Alfa would bring the Competizione to our shores at a price point closer to
$100K, with possibly a straight 6-cyl version for the traditionalists (and
poorer) among us, you would think they could sell everything they could
paint. (Italian racing red, if you please). The market has probably gotten over
Alfa's last foray this side of the Atlantic, and consumers have forgotten the
miserable service, serious reliability issues, and generally miserable product
they foisted upon us in the late unlamented 164 over ten years ago.
With the range of models Alfa now offers, and a solid sales and service
network in the states, a la Lexus, they could be the first European marque to
find long-term success here since the Germans discovered the dollar in the
fifties.
Alfa has a number of very interesting designs, and now that Fiat Corporate
has stepped in to take a more vigorous role in the business of all of her
automotive offerings, we can expect product quality to improve. Of course, a
certain component of the Italian motoring brio is the anticipation that
something important will fail or fall off - providing that little frisson of
fear that comes with knowing you stand a real chance of not getting home
tonight.
There is still something thrilling about a wet spring evening in the wine
country - the yowl of the exhaust on the overrun as you hear the Alfa gear
down for the left-hand sweeper ahead, then a flash of headlights and red as
the driver feeds in throttle to drift up toward your lane as he powers out of
the corner and disappears in a whirling cloud of spray with a blare from the
Abarths and the faint glow of two receding taillights.
Back in my sports car days, the prevailing wisdom said you bought an
American car to marry. It could cook, keep house, raise the kids, and make
love with amazing intelligence and reliability, but you had to have a mistress -
one that was tempestuous, unreliable, demanding, pouty, stunningly
gorgeous and expensive to maintain; one that was athletic and creative in
bed - an Italian sports car. I put away my stringback driving gloves, the
goggles and the driving cap quite a few years ago . . . but somewhere from
the back of my closet they still sing their siren's song . . . and cars like the
Competiizone play the rhythm section . . .
$100K, with possibly a straight 6-cyl version for the traditionalists (and
poorer) among us, you would think they could sell everything they could
paint. (Italian racing red, if you please). The market has probably gotten over
Alfa's last foray this side of the Atlantic, and consumers have forgotten the
miserable service, serious reliability issues, and generally miserable product
they foisted upon us in the late unlamented 164 over ten years ago.
With the range of models Alfa now offers, and a solid sales and service
network in the states, a la Lexus, they could be the first European marque to
find long-term success here since the Germans discovered the dollar in the
fifties.
Alfa has a number of very interesting designs, and now that Fiat Corporate
has stepped in to take a more vigorous role in the business of all of her
automotive offerings, we can expect product quality to improve. Of course, a
certain component of the Italian motoring brio is the anticipation that
something important will fail or fall off - providing that little frisson of
fear that comes with knowing you stand a real chance of not getting home
tonight.
There is still something thrilling about a wet spring evening in the wine
country - the yowl of the exhaust on the overrun as you hear the Alfa gear
down for the left-hand sweeper ahead, then a flash of headlights and red as
the driver feeds in throttle to drift up toward your lane as he powers out of
the corner and disappears in a whirling cloud of spray with a blare from the
Abarths and the faint glow of two receding taillights.
Back in my sports car days, the prevailing wisdom said you bought an
American car to marry. It could cook, keep house, raise the kids, and make
love with amazing intelligence and reliability, but you had to have a mistress -
one that was tempestuous, unreliable, demanding, pouty, stunningly
gorgeous and expensive to maintain; one that was athletic and creative in
bed - an Italian sports car. I put away my stringback driving gloves, the
goggles and the driving cap quite a few years ago . . . but somewhere from
the back of my closet they still sing their siren's song . . . and cars like the
Competiizone play the rhythm section . . .
Last edited by Lil4X; 08-01-07 at 08:30 PM.
08-01-07, 07:37 AM
#25
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OMG 
Seeing the video/commercial of this car makes me want it even more!! Why does it have to cost 200k??? 
here's a link to the vid
http://jalopnik.com/cars/the-storm-i...cry-284742.php
Beautiful, beautiful car
Seeing the video/commercial of this car makes me want it even more!! Why does it have to cost 200k??? here's a link to the vid
http://jalopnik.com/cars/the-storm-i...cry-284742.php
Beautiful, beautiful car
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