I’ll keep mine strictly original, thank you very much.
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The dealership where I buy from has a coffee shop, restaurant, and pizzeria.
Both systems are supposed to be supervised, and neither is advertised as a “activate and forget about it” deal. The operator is responsible for monitoring the vehicle at all times and stopping it in case of danger. This is just accomplished in a different way in the two systems. The BMW one is a “dead man” safety: if…
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No direct quote? You mean you couldn’t be bothered to attend the press conference, or even to watch it online, where it was livestreamed for everyone?
The BMW system does not require the operator to manually guide the car. It steers the car on its own to center it in the designated spot, and stops on its own when it gets close to the back wall, exactly like the Tesla system. The only operator control for both systems is choosing whether the car should go forwards or…
Quite fond of it.
Yes, it is. A Spider, to be exact.
My front-engined Italian certainly doesn’t look at all like a big cover-up.
Yes, being the housing for the air filters it’s part of the intake circuit. Air gets in from the two wide openings towards the front, and comes out from the two circular openings towards the rear, where the MAFs are also housed. From there it goes down to the turbos, then to the intercoolers, then comes back up to the…
The Maserati 60° twin-turbo V6 has timing chains, not belts.
The 3.0L diesel V6 has been originally developed by VM Motori, who also build it. As much as Maserati likes mentioning Martinelli, his contribution could be defined as tweaks and calibration, definitely not actual design.
You are correct in that the heads are specific to Maserati and assembly is done in Maranello - the engine design as a whole however is derived from the Pentastar.
Chrysler’s 60° twin-turbo V6 is a Pentastar derivative, no matter how Maserati and Ferrari spin it (and the Ghibli/Quattroporte platform is a LX derivative, too). Alfa’s 90° twin-turbo V6 on the other hand is derived from the Ferrari/Maserati F154 V8 family.
It does. Air filters are in the engine cover.
That’s not a Giulia.
Understandably so, since the Giulietta has been developed before Fiat got involved with Chrysler, and as such it’s not been designed with US regulations in mind; it was also deemed too expensive to “federalize”. You’ll get its replacement, but the current Giulietta remains out of NA. It came out in Europe in 2010,…
The Giulietta is not stillborn, it’s been on sale in Europe since 2010. The Dart is based on the Giulietta platform, widened and lengthened.
The Giorgio platform that underpins the Giulia is not adapted from the one in the Ghibli and Quattroporte, it’s completely new.
There’s no soon to be Alfa version of the Miata. It’s been canned ages ago, and turned into the upcoming Fiat 124 Spider.