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Oh boy. Looks like the whiners and naysayers are having a field day over the 8C. Can you imagine that?! It is the ultimate proof that Alfa really cannot do anything to please this wacko subset of Alfisti.

Are they still waiting for 1970 or something?

I have been virtually beaten to a bloody pulp so many times, just because I have the balls to say I enjoy my 2004 model Alfa Romeo. The underlying theme is that no Alfa made after 1992 can be enjoyed. Someone will always tell you that your car isn't a "real Alfa", no matter what it is.

The 1900 must have had 6C owners eyes roll out of their skull.

To poke fun at the whiners, I sometimes refer to the Montreal as my "105-series Bertone coupé", and when they discover that it's not a Giulia Sprint GT, they rarely fail to sputter and cough before resorting to bashing the Montreal. "It's not a real 105-series." Imagine that?!

I have concluded my non-scientific research of the global whiner- and naysayer community thusly:

If you don't own a car found on a short list of 105s or 116s with TC and carburettors (everything else, by simple deduction, is cr*p), you're not worthy of being on the same continent as those who do.

Alfa is currently writing a whole new chapter in their history book. It's taking place in the first decennium of the noughties. Get with the program or STFU. We have moved forward. Let the good old days be the good old days.

I will probably never drive or let alone own an 8C, but it will make regular Joe say "Alfa Romeo" in sotto voce again. That's its job. Nothing more, nothing less.