i'm sure many of you have already heard this but i haven't seen it on the forum yet.
i hope they bring over their full engine line, especially the diesels (doubtfull though )
i also hope the Brera makes it here, i think it quite cool!


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Oh, yeah. How about this one? Sounds like it is actually going to be produced. Very sweet.

 

i know, that thing is incredibly sweet! but i am sure it will be well beyond my price range. Alfa has always made beautiful cars. i am excited to restore a 66 duetto this summer.

 

Very nice. The Duetto is a total icon. I sold a nice 69 1750 GTV to get my first new MINI a few years back. Still regret it.

 

if they bring an Alfa 156GTA i will be all over it

 

I sure hope Alfa comes back to the USA, but with so many false starts (another reason that I'm a GM basher) over the years, I'm skeptical to the point of "I'll believe it when I see it."

When I lived in Europe, the Alfa Spider (FWD) was introduced. Sweetest FWD sports car since the "new" Lotus Elan. Can't wait for the encore.

 

Doubtful. That car is getting a bit long in the tooth.

 

not my cup of green tea... but interesting.

 

I would vote that Brera "Most Likely To Be The Next Design Copied By Hyundai In An Attempt To Make Their Cars Look Edgy, Exciting, and Rich."

I would definitely be psyched to start seeing new Alfas on the road.

 

without a good dealer network they'll fail... quality of the cars has gotten much better of the years but you'll need a good shop for sure...

I miss my Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV2000 from 20 years ago...

 

why am i so suprised?

 

the GTV was a great car ...any one recalls the Giulietta 2000? but the Graduate is still my favorite... Oh !! I miss her sometimes... ... black , beige leather seats... I must stop now or my MINI gets jealous !!!

MD STREGA2
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I'll also believe it when I see it. GM has "promised" the return of Alfa to the US market since circa 1997-1998 and that has never ever materialized. The initial strategy was for GM to sell these Alfas thru selected Cadillac dealerships, at least that was the plan for 2003, one of the years Alfa was sure to come back to these shores.

Very nice cars. I saw them many times in Europe. One thing people overthere kept telling me is that their reliability is still very questionnable.

 

They've been talking about it for years, and the German guy running Alfa doesn't seem to be in any hurry to start selling cars here, but just the other day I came up on one of the new Alfa Spiders on the street here in Northern California. I was on a Ducati so I pulled up next to it and gave the thumbs-up, which they returned. Then they pulled onto the freeway, so I couldn't engage them in conversation. It was weird seeing that car on our roads. I hope it means they're about to be sold here. I'd sell a bunch of things to get a Brera coupe.

 

Why? MINI is doing great with a TERRIBLE dealer network

 

Don't be too enthusiastic with your discovery. European manufacturers often times test new (not for US sale) models in Calif. Especially useful is Death Valley for heat and sometimes the Nevada Desert for, um, Vegas pictorials?

Methinks thay you may have stumbled across Guido and Lorenzo taking a mini-vacation in a new Alfa spider during a Euro-test rather than the new head of Alfa-USA scoping out the landscape.

 

Where I live, there's not much value in testing a car -- if anything, they'd be showing the car to dealers or potential dealers. I doubt if they'd drive a car all the way up here from a desert proving grounds -- and I'm not sure Fiat/Maserati/Ferrari/Alfa even have desert proving grounds in the US. Perhaps the car was here after being shown at Concorso Italiano or Pebble Beach, etc., but I don't remember seeing this particular car at those events. In any case, somebody spent some big bucks to get the car legally onto California roads -- it's doubtful it was just for a joy-ride.

 

Mexicans get new Alfas, no?

 

Not sure, but if you go to alfaromeo.com and select "Choose a country," Mexico isn't in the list.

 

Reminds me of when Dodge was selling Fiats in the early 80's - that was a disaster when your car needed service. Bought an X1/9 in '80 or '81 from the local Dodge dealer - unfortunately, Tony wasn't there to Fix It Again.