[Alfajay]

Dunno if anyone else picked up on this, but a photo of the quarter million $ Alfa under a Wachovia Bank sign strikes me as pretty ironic - Wachovia is one of the banks that have gone under in the current mortgage mess.

I wish the dealer all the best in flipping his 8C - evidently he's handicapped and probably needs the money to buy a new set of crutches - but his timing (like Alfa's) could have been a bit better. Multi-hundred thousand dollar cars may not be the most popular toy under the Christmas tree this year.

Perhaps part of Anthony's concern about the car's visuals is that the 8C doesn't look all that great in black. I've never seen one in the "flesh", but the magazine photos of red or silver cars have somehow looked better. To my eye, this black model looks like something Batman & Robin are about to jump into.