Oh, that's always fun. Especially because I own something that Top Gear said was crap, and I know that out of all the complaints in the segment just one is valid. Sometimes I happen to catch kids parroting what Top Gear said about it, usually when it's parked somewhere, I'm nearby, and they don't know I'm the owner. I…

The 8C is completely hand-made as well. The CF panels were handcrafted by ITCA/ATR in Colonnella. The chassis was made at the prototype shop in Mirafiori, where it was also joined to the CF panels. Which aren't just cosmetic addons to a steel chassis, btw - the windshield frame, pillars, roof and entire rear is a…

Not sure about which build quality/fit & finish issues you're referring to. I don't have any complaints, it looks and feels pretty well made to me.

He also lied through his teeth when he said it sounds completely different from the 8C: it doesn't. Also, the gold base coat under the red is something Alfa does on Rosso Competizione 8Cs as well.

It does. And the way it dies is not pretty. Fortunately, they will make only 8. The green one is the third.

I actually live in Italy, and I'm not complaining about it – go figure!

Much more interior CF? Just the air vent surrounds...

The old one was 2.2cm narrower without mirrors, and 5.3cm narrower with mirrors. And the one before that was 6.8cm narrower without mirrors, and 10.9cm narrower with mirrors. Still a far cry from 25cm.

Trunk is at the back. And the front hood is removable. It's just bolted down, rather than hinged and latched. Not that you'd need to do it, since it's full of radiators and stuff in there.

It is not 25cm wider than a 5-series wagon. Check your facts next time.

Meh, I don't see its width as the real issue. You'll get more headaches from the ~10° approach angle and low ground clearance. And the difficulty getting in and out of it (which is what made me decline the coupé – hoping the Spider will be better, so I can get one).

For those of you who aren't fans of the 4C's insect-style headlamps, the Spider can bring relief even if it's just a concept at this point and if you remember, the coupe was also teasing us with regular ones before entering production.

The 4C is wide, but not incredibly so. It's 1.86m wide without mirrors, 2.09m with mirrors. And the roads you saw on TopGear were really narrow to begin with.

Video and pictures of the actual car being unloaded here:

Direct knowledge. But you'd get there by logic alone. Mules were 500Ls. It's built in Melfi, which is tooled for the B-segment platform (Fiat factories, nowadays, are centered around a single platform: e.g. Tychy and Pomigliano for the A-segment, Melfi, Mirafiori and Kragujevac for the B-segment, Cassino for the…

While early reports pointed heavily to it being Fiat 500L-based, these images look awfully like the Fiat Panda 4x4...

Here it is. With the new headlights.

Here it is.

They're the same.

Physically, sure, it's perfectly feasible. I'm not sure the various electronic brains would be very happy, though. You'd have to hack the software to remove all TCT-related bits, I guess.