Sentences with phrase «alfa just»

But the Alfa just never feels as agile or biddable as the Renault.

The Alfa just ate up the mountain loop, no sweat.»

Not exact matches

It's great news because Alfa has a massive history in motorsport, so to see the brand officially back at the top level just feels right, even if it's currently little more than a marketing gimmick.

The news was announced on Sunday morning, just ahead of the first race of the Rockingham round, with Handy Motorsport joining forces with the Alfa Romeo Dealer Council.

With only the manufacturer teams of Ferrari, Renault and Alfa Romeo affiliated with FISA this would have left the race with just six cars (A six car race?

It seemed pretty obvious that runaway Formula 2 champion and Ferrari junior driver Charles Leclerc was going to get a drive with Sauber this year, and indeed he's now been confirmed as a race driver for 2018, just days after the team announced a tie - up with Alfa Romeo.

However, CNS Cartel ALFA, a trade union group, puts the number at around 1,700 jobs, a significant difference, and predicted that after nine years employment would fall to just over 300.

However, in my opinion, just like an Alfa Romeo, on a good day when everything was dialled in, it was glorious.

«We need to give them the time to complete the work and present the plan in May and effectively convince you that we've learned from our past mistakes with Alfa — not just mine, but from our predecessors.

Some cars hit the market just after our test, so we endeavor to have them along the following year, with the Alfa Romeo Giulia's inclusion this year being one of the latest examples.

Those same engineers — led by none other than Roberto Fedeli, the man who made Ferraris as good as they were for 20 - odd years before being poached by BMW in 2014, and then poached back by Sergio Marchionne in 2015 to mastermind the technical rebirths not just of Alfa but Maserati as well — are equally proud of the Stelvio's chassis refinement.

Alfa's 4C Concept has just made its first appearance at Geneva, and it looks fantastic!

We pushed and pushed Alfa Romeo to lend us a 2015 4C for a long - term Four Seasons test, and I selfishly had it delivered to our office just outside of Detroit.

Alfa Romeo until recently held the unnofficial saloon record in a Giulia Quadrifoglio with a time of 7 min 32sec, but Jaguar's limited - run XE SV Project 8 has just whipped around in 7 min 21.2 sec beating the Italian's time by over ten seconds.

As if those figures aren't exciting enough, Alfa also says the Giulia was able to lap the infamous Nurburgring Nordschliefe in just 7 minutes and 39 seconds.

it's just another pretty alfa that doesn't make the grade.

The Exige is also a flawed car, by the way, just not in the same ways the Alfa is.

Yet while the Cayman is an outstanding sports car in its own right, it doesn't have that direct - connection feeling the Alfa does — a totally plugged - in, non-insulated experience you just can't find anywhere else outside of a used Lotus Elise.

The majority of the compact - sedan class has been heavily revised or totally redesigned in the past two years, and Dodge has just rolled out its Alfa Romeo - based Dart, the latest entry in a hotly contested segment.

Alfa's attention to keeping weight down to just 3,749 pounds (courtesy of an all - aluminum engine as well as the driveshaft, active front splitter, hood, roof, and rocker moldings all made from carbon fiber) is noted.

Alfa claims a 0 - to -60-mph time of just 3.8 seconds, and I have no reason to doubt that figure.

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This omission surprised many of the assembled journalists as Alfa's U.S. website showed pictures of just such cars.

Now those new Alfa Romeos are on delay to allow FCA, which posted just $ 410 million in earnings for fiscal year 2015, a 40 percent drop from 2014, can concentrate on sure - fire moneymakers such as the Grand Wagoneer.

Calm just isn't what this Alfa likes to do.

Alfa claims an impressive stopping distance of just 118 feet from 100 km / hr (62 mph), and they were just stellar on the track, repeatedly slowing the car down from much higher speeds more quickly than we anticipated.

But we Michiganders did take delivery of a 2015 Alfa Romeo 4C Spider, which costs a bit more than the coupe but is functionally the same and smells just fine.

Just three judges gave the full 10, compared with two for the third - place Vauxhall Meriva MPV (244 points) and none for the second - place Alfa Giulietta (248 points).

Sure enough, the 4C Spider is just as visceral, just as dynamic, just as tuned - in as its hard - roofed sibling, but the extra elements of wind, sky, and glorious Alfa noise make the experience that much more enjoyable.

It was my month to host the local Fiat 850 club and, sitting next to my perpetually not - quite - roadworthy 1967 850 Coupe (along with two club members» cars — another 850 Coupe and a 600), there was a 2,400 - pound elephant: the 2015 Alfa Romeo 4C I'd liberated from my colleagues just for this occasion.

Alfa enthusiasts can just as easily point out that the 4C offers the style, prestige, and flavor of an exotic car for not much more money than an anodyne - looking BMW.

Job No. 1 for FCA was building a real Alfa Romeo, not something that just looked like one.

The Alfa performs a miracle, squashing the fight just as fast as it started.

C63AMG (especially with 6.2 NA engine) is a Very Special Car, no doubt, it has «soul», just like Alfas, even though they are not as perfect as ze Germanz.

The Nuvola concept from 1996 (from which the aforementioned 156 got its colour) hasn't come of age just yet, but it proved a valuable visual inspiration for Alfa's pretty 1990s output.

Lancaster, Typhoon, Hurricane — Jonathan Wood looks at the first models produced by Armstrong Siddeley after the Second World War / Alfa Romeo 6C — Douglas Blain encounters a recreation of one of a handful of short chassis 6C 256 Alfa Romeos prepared for racing just before World War Two / Porsche's Magnificent Mixtes — At a time when early automotive technology was in a state of flux, Ferdinand Porsche dared to use electricity to transmit power from engine to wheels.

It just might, seeing that it's a well - balanced, sporty, and characterful midsize sedan with mild BMW 3 Series overtones but enough Alfa attitude to carve out and defend a niche.

For some perspective, the sprightly, 2465 - lb, carbon fiber Alfa Romeo 4C coupe lapped the Nürburgring in 8 minutes and 4 seconds — just 10 seconds quicker.

The hype surrounding the upcoming Alfa Romeo Giulia sports sedan has just reached its zenith, with the recent release of the official Nurburgring lap time for the top - tier variant of the sumptuous four - door.

Quadrifoglio is probably not as polished as AMG, but driving one you will always be a cool guy and every M - driver and AMG - driver will try to race you, simply because they will feel threatened, as unconsciously they know which car is cooler and they just did not have the balls to throw a little caution to the wind and buy an Alfa!

With eight new models coming out by 2018, the Alfa Romeo 4C is just an appetizer.

The DNA switch, which controls the Alfa's different chassis and gearbox modes, is just a generic Alfa switch that looks like it's been abandoned on the centre console.

Considering just the numbers, the Alfa 4C is impressive.

The upcoming lightweight Italian sports car has just set a Nürburgring lap time of 8 minutes and 4 seconds, according to Alfa Romeo's U.K. press office.

Marchionne later said the switch from Alfa styling to Fiat styling delayed the Spider's launch by just six months, which further helps the Mazda - Fiat Chrysler partnership.

The only other embarrassment you might face is realising just how many of Alfa's cars you were unaware of before visiting, like the 33 Spider «Cuneo» that sits immediately opposite the turnstiles as you enter — a Pininfarina - bodied one - off created in 1971, based on the chassis and 2 - litre V8 running gear of the Tipo 33.

Great review, one for car enthusiasts unlike tow two mainstream mags who actively dislike anything Alfa Romeo and begrudgingly gave the car just 4 stars.

Built off of the same architecture that underpins the new Giulia mid-size performance sedan that we drove in October (and absolutely loved), the new Stelvio is Alfa's first - ever SUV and arrives just in time to capitalize on the renewed interest in the class.

Tim Considine was just a kid actor with a powder blue Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider when he first came to Mulholland in the 1950s.