Sounds similar to my family’s experience.

I’m not worried about it. Automotive journalism loves to play up non-existent hysteria,  the Giulia and Alfa U.S. launch is ripe for this pseudo-drama making for good click-bait to drive up their ad-revenue. FCA has a plan they’re just executing it slowly.

I’ll take the CR report with a grain of salt when it comes out. They have an agenda against all Italian cars and they’re only using the Giulia as an opportunity to capitalize on the “Italian cars are unreliable” storyline. The whole thing is bullshit.

Alfa won’t be leaving. FCA knows this game better than you do.…

Classic. Let’s just have google return things we like to see rather than looking into a bit and thinking critically about it. I’ve been following the issues with Giulia on that forum for some time now and two things have stuck out: software and pinched wiring harnesses. A majority of the issues have been software…

I know the storyline around here is that everything at FCA is all doom and gloom but if we take a step back and look at the number you will find two indicators that might impress you:

1. The number of successive quarters FCA has turned a profit.
2. The rate at which their debt has shrunk since 2009.

I do not, but I plan to be an owner in a year or two. I worked as a test engineer for 4 years and am very familiar with the launch of a new platform and the life cycle of a platform. I think the MY2018 will be the one to buy and perhaps the MY2019 however the rumor is that Alfa will be introducing the hybrid…

It’s a brand new platform, it’s going to have its teething issues. In all my time in the automotive manufacturing industry, I’ve yet to see a new platform roll down the assembly line where there was less than a handful of issues per couple hundred vehicles.

I apologize. Jalopnik and everyone choosing to subscribe to the religion “Italian cars are unreliable” is wrong about this car and frankly any Italian car manufactured in the 21st century.

People that go by the stereotypes are idiots, plain and simple. Stereotyping after all is what led to segregation, apartheid, internment camps, holocaust and etc. It’s an notion rooted in beliefs rather than facts and the same is no different here. People are choosing to believe the stereotype rather thinking…

Well for one, cars are not built the same way as they were even 10 years ago. CAD technology, tolerances in high-volume machining, wiring harness quality, materials, smart manufacturing, etc. have all improved tremendously. This is why cars today are significantly better than they were 10-20 years ago.

Jaguar/RR may…

Your right I could read about BMW problems

I do not, neither do you, nor does anyone else. These cars only a few months old it is impossible to have reliability data. The part that bothers me in regards to the discussion of this car and any Italian-branded FCA vehicle, is the false-stereotyping. It’s ridiculous to hold this car to such a high standard when…

Yes but they’re disproportionally all on the east coast. There are only 177 for sale in CA. Compared to 728 A4s and 1770 3-series BMWs. I’m going to guess that they haven’t quite hit their stride in the ramp up.

Are you kidding? There has been nothing but hatred for this car since it hit the press releases. Every single one of them harps on the same damn trope about “Italian reliability” when the reality is that we are several decades removed from when it was a thing. This is a completely different car using 21st century…

How is it overpriced, especially compared to a 3-series with the same options?

This is a bad take. Boo fucking hoo that that 0.5 in.^2 plastic isn’t up to your standards. I can find material on every single vehicle in its class that isn’t up to mine and yet I don’t give a shit.

It has changed. You are an idiot if you actually believe it hasn’t.

I will and laugh at all the idiots like yourself falling for what they read online about its reliability.

GFY. You do not know shit about Alfa’s reliability aside from the tired-ass joke.

Unreliable? No. Those are just teething issues that happen on every single new platform within the first year.