09-01-2006, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Berlinista
Alfa will NEVER have japanese or german quality, so stop trying.
Make it cheap and fun. If it can be both these things, young buyers will forgive the quality.
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Overall, though, I agree with your thread. Alfa needs to stop being something that it is not. To hold itself up to the standard of the Germans and Japanese would be, in a sense, to admit that they are already better than Alfa Romeo. No one in the past ever bought an Alfa because it was a practical car above all else; they bought it because there was something else about it that the competition did not have. Alfas were better than those cars for different reasons.
The problem now however is that Fiat has had the wrong idea about Alfa Romeo. They want Alfa to be successful on their own terms, terms that Alfa was never successful on to begin with. If I were Fiat I would look to the past successes of the 105, 115, and 116 cars and go from there.
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