Geeze... The best thing to happen to our classic Alfas is FCA bringing Alfa back to the USA and bringing out new models. If you don't need 600 hp there's a pedal just to the right of the brake - don't press it down so hard.
Do you really think the numbers game is a new thing? Muscle cars from the sixties were a study in marketing numbers. Was it necessary for Cadillac to build a V12 or Packard a V16 in the 1930s? Hell, look at ads for Model T bragging about their whopping 20 hp! Numbers sell cars. And selling cars for profit the last time I checked is why car companies exist. That's pretty much the whole point in a capitalist system...
Being born, raised and live in the Detroit area I naturally know more than a few car designers. Almost all that I know, regardless of who they work for are gearheads in general and huge Alfa fans in particular. Some of them lurk on this BB. They design and build these cars from a position of passion. But they get green lighted because they are offering a product that the public wants.
I really don't get the attitude that no matter what these guys put out it's too big, too small, too fast, too slow, too powerful, too gutless, too pretty, too ugly, blah, blah, blah.
Maybe, just maybe you are just not the target market...
