I know I am a couple of days late on this.
I whole heartedly agree with George. Alfa is just marketing for the
Fiat empire. My interest in the mark is very retrospect. My interest
in the car very much centered on driving a fun car whose engineering and
execution strikes me as a best compromise.
Scott Shure
85' GTV-6
Ellicott City, MD
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:21:00 -0800
From: George Graves <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [alfa] This is deeply disturbing
Look, Alfa Romeo is just another global bland...er brand these days.
The heart and soul of the company was gutted from it when Fiat took
over and decided to base Alfas on Fiats and to go to FWD. I mean for
Alfa Romeo to go from being a company that built products that were
the best in the world in their day (and the pre-war Ferrari in
prestige, cost, and racing heritage) to being a re-badged Chrysler
product, is quite a fall from grace. Fiat has mismanaged the company
since they bought it - at least the Italian government left Alfa alone
(more or less) when they had the helm. Moving from Milan to Turin and
closing that huge Alfa factory at Arese makes no sense. At least they
didn't follow through with the plan to tear the factory down and
"develop" the property.
The Alfa that we knew and love is gone, I'm afraid. Our aging Alfas
are all that's left of a once glorious marque. We need to take care of
them so we can pass them along to the next generation of car lovers.
To paraphrase a song from the musical 'Camelot' - Don't let it be
forgot, that once there was a car, for one brief, shining hour, that
was known as Alfa Romeo. OK, it doesn't rhyme, but you get the idea.
George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'
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