You just wanted to post Kristen a picture of your Giulia, didn’t you.

I have never owned an Alfa. I do work on them, however. They are delightful engineering challenges, especially as their owners are seemingly never satisfied to leave well enough alone.

I think my favourite project (other than the LeMons car) was the GTV6 we pulled the locked-up 2.5 V6 out of and crammed a 3.0 24v 230+…

I got my first Alfa Romeo, the 4C, last year after lurking on the forums and the consensus was that it is actually a rock solid design and I love it. I’m even getting anywhere from 25-40 mpg. Despite the fact that it is a total assault on the senses, many are using it as their daily drivers and I can say for a fact…

After driving my W115 for a weekend, which is a veritable greenhouse, and jumping into my Fiesta, or God forbid my S-10 with a cap it’s horrendous.

The visibility is so good in the W115 I don’t miss the (factory) lack of a passenger mirror.

Nnnnnnnnnnggggggggggghhhhhhh it’s so perfect. Love the car!

Nice car. Have you ever tried to freak out Mini drivers by following them around and forcing them to drive down staircases or storm drains?

Subaru is pretty good at visibility. Our ‘15 Outback has great visibility, so does my in laws ‘14 Forester.

The big greenhouse is one of my favorite parts of my ‘65 Cortina.

Had one. It provided a 390-degree field of vision, which sounds mathematically impossible, but damn it seemed like it.

Alfa’s don’t roll over, they stick to the road like glue.

Too much reliance on blind spot warning and back up cameras. You don’t need to turn your head when you drive now.

As a 2nd gen Probe owner, the aquarium comment struck home

Also related, I nearly had an accident in the sportwagen this morning because I couldnt see a car coming as I was turning left onto a main road; It was completely blocked by the b pillar. My wife alerted me and we didn’t have an accident but I wouldnt have had a problem in my land cruiser.

New cars disguise their tiny windows too, from the outside they look okay-sized, but on the inside they’re actually 50% size. When I get in a new car from my 60s Ford it feels like I’m trying to drive a shoe box by looking through the hand hole. In my Falcon I have no blind spots except a thin sliver for each C…

This is why I like my ‘91 Saab. Old enough to be pretty fishbowly, but new enough that the skinny pillars have enough engineering to save me in a rollover (seriously, find the Top Gear episode where they drop a 900 from a crane onto its roof).

I enjoyed this article. It was informative without being pedantic, and short enough to read on the can and not have the wife shout down “are you playing with yourself in there or what?!”

A baby?

I was ready to vote for either the off-road or dune-buggy builds provided they’d build it with an exocage (Which is the coolest thing in the world on any car), then came #8. Is it even a competition any more?

As the owner of an old Alfa with this configuration, I can’t understand why it wasn’t/isn’t more common. When you are driving hard (especially on the track), you need both hands on the wheel. Why not put the shifter where you don’t need to move your hand as far to shift?