mosesbotbol

What regular car company pens as many beautiful cars as Alfa Romeo? 100+ years of stunning designs.

cbehney

Look a bit further down in your own post ... Aston Martin.

JerryIII

TheDonEffect

Congrats!

mosesbotbol

I don't consider an Aston Martin a "regular car". Alfa Romeo are cars that regular people can afford and own. They're a mainstream brand priced between Honda and BMW.

sam_spider

I'm going to assume you aren't including the used market. I could've bought a Vantage for the same money as the Giulia, kinda like you buying yours used. At the end of the day, $50k is $50k.

mosesbotbol

No, I meant new. 50K for an out of warranty exotic car and 50K new car are very far apart. Take for instance on my Rapide, I needed a new front speaker cover (B&O stereo). That plastic with thin metal part is $800. No speaker cover on any 50K new car is even a quarter that. A 200k+ car has 200k+ car repair bills for the life the car. That never changes.

radiantm3

You can't turn off assists in any version of that car? That's the 2nd deal breaker for me (first is no manual option). Beautiful cars. I wanted a 4C really bad as well, but they had to give it that terrible transmission. So close, yet so far.

Chuck S

It's marketing. No one in North America wants a stick shift car other than us and we're too low a number to be statistically significant. And the good paddle shifters will leave a stick behind at every traffic light.

Always loved the Alfa while hating the lack of reliability or even parts. Dealer here in Richmond has a couple dozen 2017 models with 2018 asking prices. I prefer to keep my car loans lower than my house payment...

-- Chuck

cbehney

Thanks. 2015 C2S. Pretty normal except it's a manual, which at least in northern VA is pretty rare.

This is a good point, but I couldn't resist given he has an Aston!