06-09-2003, 02:51 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
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Re: I'm not sure...
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Originally posted by dretceterini
In today's word, $1000-$3000 probibly won't make a difference, but I think $10,000-#$12,000 will.
By the time Alfa comes back, there will also be a number of competitors at a similar or less expensive price, like the quatro version of the VW Golf, with 260 horsepower, and the Subaru WRXE with about 260 horsepower.
The Mitusbishi Evo (quatro) is already here, with 271 horsepower..
and all of these have a better reputation for reliability than Alfa...not to say Alfa won't sell some cars, but there best year ever was about 8500 units, and they think they can sell 50,000!
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To me, even though those other cars are all very desirable, they are not a real competition for the Alfa, because they are too different...the only exception being the Golf R32, which lost to the Alfa because of its lack of sexiness and the engine note wasn't the same either. All of the other cars answer different questions...
For the price of the Alfa, there is a lot of cars which I could have bought with a lot more options, maybe more room, better reliability etc etc, but the bottom line is, they are not what I want...
I don't know if you guys get a brand called Hyundai over there, but here you can buy the XG-35, it's a fully loaded executive car, looks okay, is stuffed with gadgets, has a nice 6 cylinder engine....they cost approx 20k USD LESS than a similarly specced BMW 330
But the question is: Would you buy one? Thought not 
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