Nice car hire for a change

[sasguru]

So what I was saying the Alfa may not have a significantly large sample size for their results to be valid

And how did you come to that conclusion? Alfa sell > 3000 cars a year in the UK. It's a more than adequate sample size. If they sold 10 or 20 it would a whole different story. Don't use technical terms you don't understand, makes you look even more stupid than you already seem.

The Alfas of old were horrendously unreliable if they have improved great, but there are so few sold that they hardly move the needle so any conclusions drawn are invalid.

I've owned several Alfas. They score high on "unreliability" because of little niggly issues. However the most reliable car I ever owned was an Alfa 155 which I had fault free for 6 years. And that glorious Twin Spark which while only being 1.8 sang a song like a Welsh tenor.

[fiisch]

I'm getting a company car and have opted for the Giulia (petrol).
I don't think anyone in the company is senior enough for a QV.
Best looking car in its class by a country mile and as I won't be coughing out on maintenance or repairs its a no-brainer.
DO you have one? How do you find it? I'm an old school Alfisti so prepared to put up with the, er, "quirks", for some character.

Alas no, I am Alfa-less at the moment, but a fellow Alfisti - had a Mito QV and 156 in the past, and always been a fan of the brand (although pre-Giulia, the model-range was somewhat lacking).

No - I have a Civic Type R as a weekend toy (still a boy-racer at heart!), but have been looking at the Alfa Giulia longingly since it was released as a possible replacement for the wife's Seat Leon (and our main family car). Boring, ugly, slow, uninspiring it may be, but I'm struggling to justify an upgrade as it's still perfectly functional! She will almost certainly get a Giulia once I stop being a tight ****, as have test driven twice and for me in that class it's an easy decision.

[ladymuck]

You can stop it coming on at start up by giving the little button in the middle of the controls a long press. That swtiches off the radio, bluetooth, nav, etc as well. And if it's all turned off like that, then the screen won't pop up.
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I assumed there had to be something like that but I wasn't of a mind to RTFM for a two day hire.