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I'd like to point out an interesting observation - my 16 yr old and his car buddies all know about the 8C. They have seen it, they are talking about it, they are in awe, they are throwing around horsepower numbers. They know how to say "Alfa Romeo."
This is significant - A couple of years ago, they would have looked at me and said, "Alpha WHAT?," eyeing me like I was some old guy always talking about how great my old Morgan was.
My son went to France with school last summer. He came home telling me all about the cool Brera's, 159's, and 156 Sportwagons he saw everywhere.
The 8C intro strategy in the US, accessible to most of us or not, may well be introducing a new generation to Alfa Romeo. If/when they show up, there will be an entirely new group of fanatics signing on.
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Mike Gilbert
1967 1600 Spider
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