The 75/Milano is just TOO GOOD for this list, lets look at the FWD 33...

This statement is mostly true, but lets discuss the Alfa Sud and 33 (the FWD boxer-4-equipped one, not the racecar/supercar one), shall we? (see my nomination of the 33 for this list)

I don't know that I'd call the Alfa 33 "shitty", exactly, but "down market", "spartan", and "workman-like" are all appropriate descriptions... (also "haphazardly assembled" and "possessed of very poor quality control" also apply.) but that little Alfa boxer 4 had potential, and the chassis dynamics with appropriate…

"Anyone who fears a God, if not God and Jesus Christ, should be outraged."

Sounds like an Alfa V6. Thats a compliment BTW.

I know a guy who would buy this. In fact, he might be contacting the seller already... (he organizes a vary large local Halloween haunted-house-forrest-barn-cornmaze and drives a Prius fitted out like a hearse...)

If this starts, runs and drives OK, *AND* is rust free then it's nice price any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

How dare you bring supply and demand logic and manufacturing capacities and methods into this argument! Right this minute gas is cheap and diesel is expensive and that means that it will always be that way and diesel cars are a bad deal!

Because it's better.

a bit of an inverse story, but on the cool old ladies front: Two years ago my mother started to have bad lower back pain that eventually resulted in having vertebral fusion surgery... Due to nerve pain she found that she could no longer comfortably drive a manual transmission vehicle, the leg movement required for the…

Because you are a sane, and rational human being.

The corollary issue with under-powered bikes is that the tire plus all those screws WEIGHS so damn much that there's a hell of a lot of rotational momentum to overcome. BUT, it's also true that the amount of traction offered by good spikes is... surprising.

How does this bike compare with the BMW f650? I love my odd-ball-chain-on-the-wrong-side-taller-than-you-surprisingly-good-handling-Austro-German-Italian-thumper, but the scrambler... interests me...

Straight-line speed was never the TA's forte, but there was very little in the 30's and 40's that could keep up with them when the road got twisty and turny. And none of those other cars that could were so easily available, or typically owned by the constabulary, or could seat your driver and four accomplices. With…

Replying to myself to note:

I'm gonna go weird on this say the Citroen Traction Avant. WHAT? an 80 year old car? Practical?! YES! The Traction Avant (TA) was designed "to be so advanced that we won't have to redesign it for 30 years." What you got, starting in 1934, and continuing until 1957(!) was a full unitbody, FWD sedan, coupe, or…

As much as I agree with this statement, I will not be the one ponying 6.9 figures for this, even if I had 6.9 figures to spend... speaking of 6.9....

Just one of the many reasons doing business in China is a bad idea, and until the government is actually WILLING to clamp down on blatant shit like this other nations need to stop taking advantage of the slave-like labor and low materials cost. haven't you ever heard: you get what you pay for? I have stories from the…

now, here's the tough decision: 390 Duke as a second bike for comuting and light-duty hooning/curb-hopping, or RC390 for comuting and canyon-carving/track days....?