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Old Jun 13, 2013 | 08:54 AM
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Hopefully not a duplicate post, but I thought this was pretty cool.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph...C-is-made.html

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Old Jun 13, 2013 | 09:02 AM
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It seems quite a clever car.

Except as usual, they made it too wide.
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Old Jun 13, 2013 | 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Nick Graves
It seems quite a clever car.

Except as usual, they made it too wide.
And it'll fall to bits eventually.

Looks bloody lovely though, and with good power!
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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 01:29 AM
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Weeellll, its closest rival is really the Exige V6 and they tend to require some spannering. But likewise, some are nowhere near as bad as their reputation.

The advantage of the Alfa ought to be that it's slightly less unuseable as a road car too. Or would be if it didn't have those American Woman hips...
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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 02:30 AM
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1st car in ages which made me sit up and pay attention.
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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 03:42 AM
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I really like it apart from those damn ugly headlights!!

Initial production like concepts had normal headlights and it looked massively better. Every time i look at it I find my eyes attracted to the headlights now because they are so incongruent with the rest if the car.

How it should look IMO
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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 03:52 AM
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I agree - they should have used the light clusters from the 8C.
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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 05:07 AM
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i agree on the headlights. hideous.
there was some comment about them in the recent ish Evo article but i cant recall the excuse.
i am genuinely interested in this car, i want something lighter after the M3 and this must be a contender. i just need to get the missus pished so she doesnt think how utterly crap it is for everything bar making me grin
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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 06:38 AM
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So the headlights in the video are the style they are going with? What were they thinking? They look like what a 17 year old lad would put on his 306, like the morette style ones that look terrible.
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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 06:56 AM
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Those lights are almost as bad as putting a blue roof on a silver car

Lovely looking machine though
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