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One positive offshoot of the new Top Gear format is Chris Harris is back in more video segments with actual cars, talking about them.

http://www.topgear.com/videos/chris-...a-quadrifoglio

Forget the M3, this is a sexy beast.

TerminatioN

Chris Harris is great. If only they would get rid of Chris Evans though... I hope LeBlanc gets his way.

windhund116

I wonder about reliability and competent mechanic issues of that Alfa. I knew a guy that had an Alfa 2000GTV. Great little car, when it was working ok. But, a bear to maintain. Always something going wrong. He had to become an expert mechanic to keep that car. He finally sold it and got a BMW 535i. He has been happy. Not as much wrenching, as before.

We used to compare our cars, at the time. I had a BMW 1602 and a 2002Ti. Those BMW were stone cold reliable. I drove all over the US and Canada in both cars. Performance-wise the Alfa GTV had it over the 2002Ti --- when it was running well. But, he could never drive it far from the City. For fear of major breakdowns and huge towing bills. Prolly why he went BMW...

mosesbotbol

I am big Alfa fan and their cars are like other Italian cars; mix quality and crap all in one. Alfa are the masters at aluminum casting and parts. When the GTV6 Twin Turbo Callaway came out, Callaway tests their engines until the break to know what they are dealing with. Up till that point, they never had tested an engine that went as long at red line until it broke as the Alfa 2.5 V6. The bodies were the death sentence on an Alfa, it was the Russian steel and cheap bins part fittings inside the car. Alfa was ahead of curve, offering state of the art technology at a price point that Porsche and BMW couldn't touch, but unions and accountants would get the best of them. Italians are the worst at competing on price point.

Today's Alfa is a solid car, but was FWD company so that took a lot of wind out of their sails outside of them having the best pens and paper in the business. No one can design/pen as beautiful car for regular people as Alfa can.

Alfa is a car either you get it or don't. If you buy cars based on the senses, an Alfa is right up there. Buy cars on empirical stat's; look for something else.

CosmosMpower

If you think a BMW is unreliable....

vader1

I think the car sounds nice, and it is probably fun, drive well, etc.

It just does not look special or mean enough to justify the price or the possible reliability headache to get me excited.

I know it aint apples to apples, but I'd rather have an M2 for fifty grand than that car.

fusionchickenleg

saw a few colors of this car in person at various auto shows and it's tough not to fall in love with an Italian four door luxurious 500+hp car with 3 pedals, would drive the wheels off of one when given a chance

Reckon

Love the look of its rear end. Never driven an Italian car but hope it does well as Fiat needs a boost. The alliance with Nissan probably hasn't panned out as well as expected and I can't say I see too many Fiats on the roads.

Love Chris Harris but haven't seen any of the new TG episodes.

I will be watching the Hammond/Clarkson/May new show on Amazon Prime when its out.