It's known as "Il Mostro" for a reason.

Cover up the driver's side window and watch it again. The wide field of vision is exaggerating the speed.

Don't know if you've ever seen this clever UK advert from a few years ago that played on the Golf's segment-defining status:

They ain't too smart.

This version is much less offensive.

When it was used on the cover of Thomas Harris's 'Hannibal', I'm pretty sure the suggestion was not one of purification and renewal:

Yeah, old console and arcade games never ever had square pixels like that. CRTs would always give a bit of gaussian blur and soften the image. Most emulators go out of their way to provide rendering modes to simulate this, so I'm not sure why anyone would purposely want the lego-brick look.

Yep, nothing needs a big fake black plastic diffuser like a 1.6L Juke.

Sadly the only plush Biscione available substitutes the dying muslim child for a forked tongue:

Close, but the original 456 is nicer looking than the 456M!

From what I've heard, you'll benefit from forced induction if you're not near the coast:-

456. The last really good-looking Ferrari.

The 107% rule was reintroduced in 2011 when the new qualifying format was introduced. There was a while when the rule didn't make sense because teams began the race with their remaining fuel load from qualifying, so quali times were as much an indicator of race strategy as driver skill.

Ah, thought you meant it as a misplaced platform-sharing/badge-engineering barb. I don't disagree with your assessment - otherwise I'd probably have one right now. It was a letdown.

What? Designed by Giugiaro, assembled by Pininfarina at San Giorgio, on a platform that was used uniquely by Alfa. Some of the engine blocks were shared with GM or Fiat, but that's all. The only other cars with Brera DNA are the 159 and 946 Spider.

A Brera is pretty much a 3-door 159 hatchback. Personally I'd also go for the 159 over the Brera, but in reality they're very close siblings.

It was a GM (Holden) block, but the head, cams, pistons, induction and exhaust were all Alfa.

Eww, federalized lamps I'm guessing?

That's a lot of effort to go to for 255bhp. And then the slushbox ...