You do realize the Hellcat project is dirt cheap for them right?

you lost me at 250k though

You had me at Scirocco. Underloved, underappreciated and gone too soon.

No joke. The 9 speed in the Pacifica is one of the best transmissions I’ve experienced. No problems with it either. The early nine speeds were junk, but they were also junk in Hondas and Land rovers.

As similar as those two cars look in profile, the Alfa looks so much better that it is puzzling. I think it is the subtle softening of the body lines that adds a degree of sexy to the Alfa. The BMW is more angular and harsh. They are both good looking cars, but the Alfa has the sexy.

And yet, Dodge Journey aside, my most unreliable cars have been German. And foolishly I had five of them before giving up.

Now how many of those are downgraded due to infotainment issues and not real reliability issues.

Hey now, the parts bin crap in my 200 has been pretty damned reliable for over 58k at this point!

Just a little bit of memes I had to do because I can’t afford a demon, or hellcat, or SRT, or rt, or even a base challenger.

Hur dur American carz r unreliable!

Somebody’s stuck in 1995.

Honestly, I can’t see that this is going to be costing them all that much to develop; It’s a beefed-up stripped-back variant; there’s nothing high-tech going on, and few dedicated parts (I’d guess). the cost of development is probably less than the cost of even just a facelift of one of the more common models, an will…

This is an official Alfa Romeo photo and I swear their photographer is trolling them and made the headlights look extra huge and bulgy.

I don’t see this ending well.

The Republican party is too caught up in what goes on in bedrooms and dumping toxic shit into the water to worry about fancy things like simple economic theory.

On top of the quality drop from lack of competition, you can kiss goodbye any car or auto-parts exports, because all the governments affected by Trump’s tariff will stick their own tariffs on US imports.

1st Gear: This is pretty simple stuff, at least from the standpoint of objectives: The industry and government should advocate for common (at least in the first world) safety and emission standards. No import duties, no export benefits, and no currency manipulation. Free-trade, baby, all day long. Smoke ‘em if you…

1st: I was glad to see the Alfa ads. The more people that include AR as one of the choices they have, the better.

I was glad to see Alfa trying to get their name out there again. Genuinely hope they do well so they can bring more cool shit over.

Neutral: Will they catch BMW and Mercedes? Not any time soon, but the Giulia is a good start to begin chipping away at the competition’s sales. I personally prefer the look of the Alfa over it’s competitors.

I’m feeling pretty optimistic about Alfa, I think it does stand a chance in the US market IF the customer experience at dealers in on par with the rest. Otherwise it will be a failure.