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MrWindsurf

By MrWindsurf,
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I just love the lines on the car, so flowing.

Oh so people do actually talk on here? For a while there I thought everyone was blind and no one comments on anything :)

rs73 Grand Master

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wait till you hear all the crap i had to go through in selling my bro in law's alfa romeo, you'd think twice before even wanting this...

at the moment we are spending about $3400 to get the $6000 worth car back to RWC standard.

beauty is only skin deep apparently is a true case.

GTR-N1 Grand Master

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Hahaha...

I love how the posts so far seem to emphasise the two extremes of a dichotomy lol

I used to own a new Alfetta GTV manual of 1979.

Looks? It was sex-on-wheels. It turned heads until one man walked into a light pole lol

Resale? Good $$ so long as I didn't keep it too long - and had it "Endrust"-ed

Problems? Oil leaks, exhaust manifold came off in the middle of Crows Nest, broken A/C hose on the M4.

Resale Issues? It took ages to sell the thing - because everyone wanted red or silver. Mine was blue.

I used to own a used Alfa Romeo 164Quadrifogglio manual of 1989.

Problems? Interior plastics kept cracking, rear boot hinge started to poke through the quarter panel wtf, huge torque steer, cornered like a dog until I had a front strut brace fabricated, and then the strut towers started to crack.

Resale? I only lost $2K depreciation over 2 yrs - but I sold at the right time.

This new Pininfarina design I think will be a 'Love-or-Hate' issue.

Me? I looooooove it! I like the mean look at the front where the signature triangle and lights are recessed a bit like the BMW M1 concept.

Buy it? I'd only think of it as a 1 yr old purchase (after depreciation) and only as a 3rd car (which is sheer indulgence) and only if it had zero major faults. I'm past it as far as putting up with Alfa idiosyncrasies any more. I still get repetitive dreams of checking under the GTV for oil leaks after arriving home lol.

BTW how do you pronounce 2uettottanta ?

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